Another update, I've been busy lately, but finally got around to do some more soldering jobs I wanted to do. First off, I got the screw hole in the smokebox filled, in preparations for re-drilling it. I'm very new to soldering with a torch rather than an iron, but it went well and the solder seemed to flow into the joint nicely.
I also decided that I needed to resolder the backhead properly, with a torch this time. I wasn't happy with the big blobs that the solder had formed on the first attempt, rather than properly flowing into the joint. Unfortunately, this means that the backhead ultimately ended up moving a little, so I have more filing work to smooth it out again, but it won't take as long as last time. It turned out much nicer this go around, since I had enough heat to create a much better joint.
I'll continue to give updates as I get work done on it - I've been busy lately so I'm not sure how often that will be.
