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Soldering iron that won't melt?

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Jookia:
I bought my first soldering iron (a Duratech TS-1620) in 2017, and I've been using it to practice soldering now and then since.
Today it's handle melted as I left it it on its stand for a few minutes while I tried to place a through-hole resistor.
I'm not exactly sure why this happened. Maybe the stand got too hot. I've attached some photos if anyone's interested.
But evidently the soldering iron was not able to cope with this task.

Is there any other soldering irons in Australia suitable for a beginner that can be left on in its stand while placing components?
Am I doing something wrong? It's a little annoying to have to wait a while for it to heat back up.

Ian.M:
The Duratech TS-1620 is advertised as being temperature controlled so what probably happened is the temperature controller failed shorted leaving the element on 100% of the time.

Lets see a picture of the stand it was in at the time to eliminate the possibility that you had done something stupid to it or used an inappropriate one.

If you got the iron from an Australian supplier, I'd contact them and see what they can do as I'm sure they don't want the Accc  all over them calling for a compulsory recall. 

If you imported it yourself you are probably S.O.L.

Jookia:
It's likely that it's my fault then if it's a defect: I burned off some of the insulation of the cable between the station and soldering iron in 2017 and wrapped it with electrical tape then thought nothing of it since everything worked. I think I also had some power draw issues once when I used a sketchy power board too. I'm surprised it would melt itself at its own temperature, unless it decided to draw as much current as possible.

I just wasn't sure if this was normal or something I was supposed to do when soldering. Here's a picture of the stand, it seems fine still.

Ice-Tea:
Just to keep its temperature, the iron will turn the element way down. Maybe 10-20% or so. So I'd say its fairly normal it would 'melt itself' if left @100%.

magic:
Nothing to do with cables or mains outlets unless you connect it to wrong voltage (like a 110V unit at 240V).

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