[Speedslug]

Try working further out from the flame if you can.

Play now and let your body slowly learn how much time to soak insurance heat into the core of the bead and then slide off to just the outer edge of the flame to add stringer for the few seconds you have until the bead cools too much to let the stringer attach with a good foot print.

It's a repetitive muscle reflex to learn to reheat the bead and sneak out of the flame to add stringer and then back into the flame to get a good seal.

The hot head is deceptive because we think we should work closer to the flame and that that would put more heat into the bead but too close is actually cooler and captures soot and unburnt fuel.

You are doing much better than I did when I started out.