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Brian- When I filled the lug edge gaps I had to heat enough of the general areas to ensure suck in (by the filler, Silver) yet not flow too far away and dilute the effort. The flux need to be close to the right temp overall. The lack of burning this second time around is a good thing. My taking time to think and internally plan shows. For those of us who have felt the light but not embraced the flow we are only as good as our focus. As it was I should have flowed all the edges for most complete results. I was able to fill the gaps and flow much (but not all) the shore line but the transistion form the old to the new remain. Good use of the file and scraper minimize this.
The pins are 6D finishing nails. It seems a good size to hold and drill for without loosing lug beach space. The pin in the head lugs that you see being fresh during round 2 is to replace one that fell out during round 1. This was some of why a gap opened up as much as it did, but not the complete reason for the gap. As I said before my prep was lacking. Andy.