Mainline (Is Capacitor too close or damaged?)

[hpleung]

Hi,

I am building the mainline. I am in one of the step that says "Bend the leads of a 0.1µF 100V capacitor close to the body of
the capacitor. Attach and solder the leads to C4 and C5."

I completed this step as shown in the attached picture. Questions are:

1. I see a black spot and I am not sure if I damaged the capacitor while soldering. Does it look damaged to you in the picture?
2. Is the capacitor too close to the wire?

 

[Paul Birkeland]

I don't see any damage to the caps.  I would caution that what's going on with pin 5 on that socket is really close to pin 6, and that's not desirable.  I also see stranded wire in the center lug of the 9 pin socket, which is not at all recommended.

 

[hpleung]

Thank you.