And Dell managed to get on my nerves today...

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Originally Posted by JE3146

All these capacitors have leads. They're not SMT. Just seat them flush and even to the PCB.

I've done cap swaps on motherboards and PSU's with no ill-effects whatsoever.

As long as a person cleans the through-holes cleanly with a solder sucker or wick(just be careful not to stray to other components), properly applies some flux to not burn out the components, double checks for no cold joints, and uses a soldering iron proper for the job. IE nothing over 50W with a fine tip. This should be easy as cake.

Hehe - a 5 line sentance with a lot of IFs. I agree, not overly diificult, but I would still say not for the average person who has never done proper soldering. 50 caps = 100 joints with proper tinning, no cold joints, no slop, burning up the run, or getting the polarity backwards. Not to include gettin the right cap in the right spot..... I'm still betting a years worth of sticks against an untrained individual getting it right the first time if at all.

1 years worth of cigars = all the Creamosas you can smoke.