Does Your Hot Solder Drool and Cover Your Copper Wires Like Hot Butter?

Sorry disagree. You should have dedicated "for purpose" electrical/ electronics solder in the proper ratio and with proper flux, whether you have additional flux, or not. And you should not use 50/50 on electrical. Kester used to "may still" market what they called 40/60 "radio" solder, which is just exactly what you need
I'm 70, and the first time I ever soldered anything I was about 12 or 13 years old

I posted earlier, I`m 72, a plumber all my life , except a couple yrs in a pipeline machine shop. I have used 50/50 , and kester soldering paste all my life for every car that I`ve messed with, and never had a failure of any kind with the electrics !!
A lot of good info in these posts, but a lot of B.S. TOO !!
My only problem is remembering the darn heatshrink tubing first .