I don't use this stuff in Arduino projects as much as in electrical repair work.
If you want to solder thick cables together, one approach is to tin them and than tie them with thin tinned copper wire.
I had to do some electric work in a house where we preferred soldering.
You can get at most any electronic parts supply house it's pre tineed copper bus wire use to fix pcb or that's what I do with it and some times I run into a pin broke off a ic it's good to put one back on.
Sneaky trick is to get some off-cuts of telephone cable (the stuff they put in the street or wire in your house), take a conductor and split the insulation from it.
Not sure what the regulations say (in your region?) about soldering house wiring.