In article LNf0e.1054$AN1.206@fed1read03, "SteveB" wrote:

It is a breeze with good cleaning, a little flux, and the right amount of
heat. What a lot of people do is put the heat in the wrong place. Heat a
little away from the joint so that you heat up the pipe, and let the solder
flow and be "sucked into" the joint.

This wording could be misleading. Let's clarify: heat the *fitting* a little
bit away from the joint.

(It sounds like you're advising to heat the pipe, and that's wrong.)

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?