I'm impressed with Dan's endfeed soldering, just a single dangler on the horizontal join, though I would be inclined to bend the pipe with my 25year-old Record pipebender rather than use so many fittings.
OP, generally you've done well with your first tries, I'd repeat what others have said about switching to propane to avoid overheating. Personally, I use propane and endfeed fittings, and keep a piece of wire wool handy to wipe away the danglers at the end. BEWARE though, wire wool is flammable, so don't wipe while the flame is on the joint!
IMO the flux will be active for about 10 seconds after the joint gets up totemperature, so have everything to hand, and heat evenly. Remember that a fitting with pipe inside is twice as thick as the pipe either side of it,so needs more flame time to reach temperature.
OP, generally you've done well with your first tries, I'd repeat what others have said about switching to propane to avoid overheating. Personally, I use propane and endfeed fittings, and keep a piece of wire wool handy to wipe away the danglers at the end. BEWARE though, wire wool is flammable, so don't wipe while the flame is on the joint!
IMO the flux will be active for about 10 seconds after the joint gets up totemperature, so have everything to hand, and heat evenly. Remember that a fitting with pipe inside is twice as thick as the pipe either side of it,so needs more flame time to reach temperature.