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John Rumm wrote:
I've read Mr Purr's comment again and still don't get it. ;-)

The iron is being held against the case. There's no possibility that
could ever solder the leads, you'd have to destroy the cap to ever
get the leads hot enough that way. But you could possibly solder a
wire to the case of the cap where the iron bit is. Why you'd do so is
another question... but it's physically possible.

Actually I think I did do that once, in my early years. Parts cost
real money then, and one had a lead snapped completely off.

I think we understood that you could solder to the can.

All the ones I have here are aluminium. I assumed it was meant that enough
heat on the can would transfer to the leads. Not sure how much good that
would to the cap, though.


The question was what use that was going to be with the PCB tracks on
the other side of the board?


(or are you suggesting you solder a wire to the can, route that to the
obverse, and then solder to a track?)

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