Steve,

I recall that Holland's furnace setup was short.

You're explanation of the furnace/flame sounds reasonable to me.

It'll give me reason to watch the dvd again.

I'll take a look at the VC site but I'm grappling with English so I'll just have to mute the commentary.

Keeping the flame off the solder/braze sounds like it has very real benefits as per what Alex and Ron etc say so it looks like "the go".

Thanks for your observations.

Peter