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WiCKeD 5.9L 
Solder does not always adhere well and connections can break. Thick layer of electrical tape prevents bendage. Nice job of soldering though.
yes its 30 years of practice, which is why it does adhere well and does not break!
Once I had to solder some wires into a cabinet, all bared ends were to be 6mm in length and tinned for 4mm, the insulation of the wire must not show signs of heat at the end.
Once all the wires were prepared and passed, they had to be soldered into the board.
I hated those hundreds of wires I had to do...........
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Don't you need a special heat gun for heatshrink?
Any old heat gun will do, but the original way is to hold the shrink above the soldering iron, because when heatshrink first came out, hot air guns were not around and took some finding.
Of course if you did it that way now, you would get hundreds of posts about how you were doing it wrong........