"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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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.)

Of course. The pipe would act like a heat sink. Not only that, but you might
instinctively grab the pipe to steady yourself as you got off the ladder.
That would result in a stream of obscenities which would frighten the
children and **** off your wife. At that point, nobody knows what could
happen next.