I had 5 bad capacitors on my Gigabyte motherboard that was well out of warranty. I got all of them desoldered and ordered new caps. The problem is that the new ones are bigger than the old ones. For me to solder the new caps in I will have to leave about 1/16"-1/8" of the lead exposed. It will not be able to sit on the board as the old ones did.
I figured I could use some heat shrink tubing around the base of the cap to "insulate" the leads from anything coming acrossed them and shorting them out.
My question is: Is it acceptable to solder these to the board with a small amount of the leads exposed?
Thanks for any help.
-Steve