Fred... I would be concerned with this "flying lead" during vibration, but I will assume that you are tack bonding it down, but back to your question. We have been reworking Military pwb's forever or maybe longer and we isolate the lead from its land pattern as follows: 1) Unsolder lead and lift from pad. Remove excess solder from pad and lead. 2) Cut a piece of Kapton tape slightly larger than pad to be isolated and apply over pad and under component lead. 3) Apply epoxy to completely cover tape and component lead. 4) Jumper as required. I don't beleive that this procedure is documented in a Mil-Std rework spec, but it is in our Standard Repair Manual and has been approved by our customer/Military. Soldering a wire to a component lead is documented in Mil-C-28809. I am not sure if there is an equivalent IPC spec. Hope this helps...It works for us. If you want to discuss this please feel free to contact me. Regards, Bob Vanech *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To unsubscribe from this list at any time, send a message to: * * [log in to unmask] with <subject: unsubscribe> and no text. * ***************************************************************************