Shane Basically as a blind person you must set up a series of landmarks that help you guide the soldering iron to the desired spot, then use the solder in your other hand to probe the joint and feel when it melts.
My perspective is as an electronics builder, doing pipe etc. is a bit different. I think the text archives contains a piece Dale Leavens wrote on doing copper pipe, and there is a whole series about electronics soldering in the Smith-Kettlewell technical file's archives at: http://www.ski.org/rehab/sktf If somebody tries to tell you to use a soldering gun because it heats and cools quickly, they don't know what they're doing. Likewise for devices that feed solder for you, this keeps you out of the important processes and helps you not know what's happening. If you want more, read the soldering series mentioned above, then ask me more questions if you like. Or maybe that's more than you wanted to know <GRIN. Tom Fowle Smith-Kettlewell Rehab Engineering Center
