Need help to fit caps on PCB

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I'm trying to fit these BC Components caps onto BrianGT's PSU board but the 'pinout' on the caps are... well, weird. Not a single pin fit a single hole on the PCB. Any suggestions?

Oh, and is only pin 5 negative and the rest positive?
 

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If you don't want to re-drill the PCB, then you will have to fit the caps remotely.

Easiest way is to mount the caps on a standalone platform above the PCB and just connect +VE and -VE to the PCB using heavy gauge wire.

Even tidier to mount the caps with the pind pointing down and just make short legs to meet the holes.
 

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Check with a DMM to see if any of the other pins are connected to Pins 1 or 5.

Okay, I checked using the continuity function and between pin 1 and pin 5 there's something going on, but absolutely nothing between any other pin. That should mean pin 2-4 are for support only, right?

But what about the PCB, should I drill holes for the supporting pins (and the live ones for that matter) or should I cut them off?
 
If the pins 1 and 5 fit the holes on the board then you can just cut off the others.

I would make a little rubber (or similar) cushion to both make sure that nothing remaining of the pins touches the board and gives the cap a solid base to sit on so that it cant move.
 
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