[macfjej]

thanks for answering my question cadtech, i wasn't sure if he ment twisting the stands in the leads (which i always do) or somhow twisting the post-tinned leads togeather before soddering them, thankfully it's the first one. this thread almost deserves a sticky, there's a lot of useful soddering information in here that you can't find in any one place anywheres else on the web