I bought this cheap soldering pot from aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32886038760.html?spm=a2g0s.12269583.0.0.4a9679ccLu6iGB
Pictures showed a grounded cable, but the one I got didn't have that. This would be illegal in Sweden I think:
This is how it looks inside, mains wiring is just a couple a mm away from metal housing. I would never dare to use this as is:
I took a rotary tool and cut away some paint for the safer connection to ground:
Then I took a proper grounded cable ( I have tons of these lying around):
Cut and stripped to length:
Desoldered and discarded old cable. Threaded through new cable, attached a connector to ground and screwed it down:
Then just soldered the new cables in place and added a cable tie for pulling relief:
That's better:
