No worries. Have fun…
I’m an old do do when it comes to Solder. But welding I can do. Overhead. Vert up\down, pipework and cast no problems.
I’ve found that when I use an old electric frypan from caravan and heat the items up a bit.
It’s a LOT easier to fuse the parts.
“”My question is (sorry if this is off topic) is when I receive my sinkpads, how do I reflow an LED to it when there is no solder on the pad? Are there any tutorials out there?“”
Type in “Adventure Sport Flashlights”. He has some good tutorials on Soldering etc.
Plus he’s very interesting\enjoyable.Funny. to watch.
@Macka17, that is right.
For example, trying to solder a spring to a metal body is extremely challenging even with a 150W monster of an iron that I have.
Using the electric skillet and raising the temperature to 100°C, then even my regular soldering iron could easily do the job.
TLDR: If you have big fat parts to solder to, I would advise using an electric skillet to raise the overall temp.