Wow
I like that idea. I can feel a making one of those session coming on.
Nophead did some work with re purposing de soldering iron elements that were coaxial (as a n extruder variant) and probably could be adapted to do the same thing as the Iron above.
Good find, this has got to be worth you posting it onto the builders blog as a heads up.
Necessity hopefully becomes the absentee parent of successfully invented children.