I built the same kit, the sdr, its pretty good for what it cost.
I did it with a standard soldering station with a fat bit, I wrapped some copper wire around the end and used that as the tip, it was bloomin hard to do but it worked, and I used a cheap head mount magnifier with both maximum mag lenses.
Its only for the brave thats for sure.
The problem with this receiver is that the lower freq input is not all that sensitive, if you listen to some, but I've found it to be really good, I get lots of stations on Vlf with a miniwhip.
Do you use Sdr# with it?