Yes, In my opinion there is NO other way to remove the capacitors.

I pinch them with some small electronics needle nose pliers, and twist about one and a half turns and it most of the time pulls the leads right out of the cap. Other times it breaks the lead off right at the pad. Either way works out just fine,

If it pulls the leads out of the cap, Then I just move the lead one by one back and forth about 4 times and it will snap the lead off at the pad. Then I neatly remove little plastic base with the 2 broke leads in it, into my little trash bucket i have on my desk.

I then clean the pad, has to be done, there is no shortcut. Then quickly add a little solder each pad, then with solder wick, it sucks everything off the pad nicely including the lead bit. Now you have like brand new, clean pads to work with.

Never had one lifted pad doing it this way.

I've repaired MANY boards for/from people that have tried it other ways however.

I'm not knocking any other way, I have a sort of production environment here...

Do it any way you want, if you mess it up, no problem, send it to me and ill fix it for you.

Charles

If anyone that is not a member of this forum,

and you would like me to Re-Cap your board for you,

you can contact me at:

iamcapsmack@gmail.com