Quote Originally Posted by marnold
Reread your previous question. I wouldn't have gotten from that that you were concerned about heat. Caps are relatively heat-resistant as long as you do all the work in short order. In the future, you could just get a little alligator clip and clip it between the cap and where you are soldering it. The alligator clip will act like a heat-sink.

the alligator clip as a heat sink is a good way of not melting your caps, LEDs, Transistors (eventhough many have their own heat sinks, TIP120 for example) etc. One of the first things i learned about soldering onto PCBs.