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I don't think heating up a screwdriver ever occurred to me!
My first soldering iron was huge! I don't remember who gave it to me, but it was clearly not for electronics. It had a small wooden handle and a tip that looked like a large, bent flathead screwdriver. It could remove parts, but not much else. Ha! gotta love google. It looked something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Soldering-Handle-Chisel-Point-Copper/...
Thinking back, my grandfather was a carpenter and left a shop full of tools when he died, so it's possible that it used to be his.
I remember asking for a real soldering iron as a Christmas or birthday present and getting a low-wattage one since they didn't cost that much. Until then, everything was held together by wrapping wire onto leads.
The strange thing is that I remember having a small soldering iron, but I don't remember ever having actual solder.