Learning to solder. Advice?

[Silver Serpent]

#6 Yes, absolutely. It needs to be tinned before you start using the iron, and I generally retin it before I put it away for the day.
#9 Not sure on that. Looks like a translation issue. The little stand that came with the soldering iron is very useful, so keep it handy.
Gloves aren't a bad idea. Don't use rubber gloves unless you like having hot rubber fusing with your skin.

[Arsies]

# 9 yeah looks like my fault, i don't know how you call it in English. Please allow me to show you:



This help you to have "more hands" as you can fix your pieces here until they are soldered. How do you call it?

[Silver Serpent]

We usually call those "Helping Hands"

[Flyby Knight]

Oh those! Yeah I have one. It's pretty awesome. When I was looking for one on Amazon, I didn't know what they were called either.

[Sarich]

# 9 yeah looks like my fault, i don't know how you call it in English. Please allow me to show you:



This help you to have "more hands" as you can fix your pieces here until they are soldered. How do you call it?

My friend calls mine "Soldering Robot," possibly because I have it posed differently every time he comes over.

[Flyby Knight]

I like "soldering Robot". I say we all call them that now.

In other news, when I look at my order w/ TCSS, it has said "processing" or something like that... until today. It now reads "completed".

I'm so excited my eyeballs are gonna pop out.