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#1
The sign up process specifically asked me 2 questions (in addition to the graphical CAPTCHA):

Name the composer of the most popular organ piece (or something like that), and it did accept my answer of Bach,

and the more difficult question (for me) :

Name the most common organ stop (which I vaguely knew what a stop was, but had no idea what their names were...  Thank you Google & Wikipedia!)

Thereafter, my first post to the forum also asked me to verify the CAPTCHA, and another organ-related question that I wouldn't expect a novice to know and didn't really know myself, but between guessing and Google, I managed to satisfy it enough to get past it.  I hope to increase my knowledge enough that those don't rattle me, but I've already noticed that it has stopped attempting to thwart my efforts in that fashion, so I must have either worn it out, or the moderators have decided that I'm generally harmless and possibly capable of becoming beneficial someday ;)

I'm not an organist, and musically, I've only been a moderately serious chorus member for a few years with no formal training, and back nearly 40 years ago, I had a few piano lessons when I was going to college for electrical engineering, so I don't even have much background to go on, just an avid hobby interest in the mysterious art of those "boxes of whistles", but now as I grow older and have slightly more control over my surroundings, I can try to make up for the gaps in my youth.
#2
Thanks.  I did contact Shires Organ Pipes through the contact form on their website, and got a response from a gentleman named Terry Shires.

He indicated that they were indeed soldering irons, but probably specific to the trade of making organ flue pipes, and as such, they were only available to his knowledge, from either Weiblen or Laukhuff.  Laukhuff has a distributor in the USA, who sells 120 volt versions of them too (I'm in the USA too), so that turned out to be a real gem.

I may never become a master organ builder, but I'd sure like to try dabbling in that trade as a hobby, and the wife has already accepted that our next home is supposed to have some space with ceilings to house 32' pipes...  ;)  Even if I have to build the house myself first!

I've also just recently discovered this forum this past week, and I expect I'll be back from time to time, especially as I make progress on my builds, but I must say, your forum verification process with the questions about organ knowledge are a bit scary and daunting for a novice, and were it not for Google, I'd have never even been able to join here - Is that the intent?
#3
I've been watching several videos of craftsmen making flue pipes for organs, and there is a tool that seems to be commonly used to solder the seams.

My first guess is that this is some variation of a soldering iron, but I'm unable to find anything resembling those tools when searching for soldering irons.

Can anyone tell me what the proper name is for those tools, and possibly where one might obtain one of them?  (if such is even still possible???)

Thanks