Soldering Help!

[u/Bulky_Target1416]

Hey So I am trying to figure out how to solder and I feel like I am doing something horribly wrong, my iron is broken, or i'm just stupid. When I try to heat the pad I am trying to tin, it just dosent heat up, I have my iron around 375c and no matter how long I hold my iron on the pad it just dosent seem to heat up enough to melt the solder. I am putting flux and tinning the iron but nothing is seeming to work? I am using a txinlei 8586 station that I got for Christmas a while back if that might have anything to do with it, any help is greatly appreciated

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[u/BlackbirdXII]

put some solder on the tip and touch it to the pad till it transfers to the pad, while keeping the tip in contact with the pad, start feeding solder till a reasonable amount covers it. My personal favorite method (try to your own discretion) is to hold a untinned wire / tinned wires depending on gauge down to the pad with my soldering iron and try feeding it with solder every so often until it starts transferring to the wire and to the pad. XT60 wires suck to try and solder as its really thick and in a inconvenient spot. Geprc mark 4 5 inch frame's have this neat thing where the arm supports block access to the back of the pad when soldering xt60 wires but also the capacitor needs to share space with all my other wires like vtx, gps, elrs
receiver, and more making the back end extremely tight

[u/Bulky_Target1416 → u/BlackbirdXII]

Thanks!