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Thanks for the tips! I found it very difficult to do the soldering due to an extremely unsteady hand and not a whole lot of experience. I 100% agree with every

• michaelt 12y ago
  It looks, in the photos, like you were trying to solder together two diode leads in mid-air. The trick to soldering when you have unsteady hands is to set things up so if you press harder the two things being soldered make better contact, instead of being pushed apart. That way you can rest the tip of the iron on the workpiece. Soldering leads together in the air can be a right pain, because you can't press on hard without them moving apart. You can usually find tricks to avoid it though - like putting an old PCB and some packing material below the joint, so you have something to push against, and twisting the leads together so they can't move apart as easily.