realskiers

Ron, you must be doing something right with that torch.  I could never get the candles to work right.  Even with a propane torch to light 'em up, I nearly always got black smoke, rarely got a blue flame, the damn things would drip all over the place before I could get them onto the repair (yeah, I'm a bit clumsy that way), and I nearly burned the house down when I knocked over the lit propane torch and it skidded into a pile of lumber.  That, plus I could never get repairs of shallow gouges to hold -- the scraper would just pull out the repair.

The thing with the soldering iron is, that you can avoid all the incendiary stuff, and have more control as you work the repair.  As long as the iron isn't too hot, it's all good.