At 08:21 AM 10/17/00 -0400, you wrote:

>I'm curious.  What is the advantage to trimming the lead before soldering?
>I would have thought the other way around to be more reliable.

It avoids the possiblity of fracturing the solder joint or lifting a
pad when cutting the joint. The latter can be a particularly common failure
mode on single sided boards with heavy-leaded parts in sloppy holes (typical
consumer electronics construction for easy assembly).

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