[Elecraft] Capacitor Lead Lengths - Always Critical?

[Paul Clay]

I've started to install the capacitors on the RF 
board.  Installing some of the small blue NPO 
capacitors (e.g., C154 and C144), it's not really 
possible to get them installed flush with the PC 
board, because the distance between the PC board 
holes is quite a bit greater than the distance 
between the component leads.  

Bending the leads a bit to form small "elbows" in 
them to match up with the holes in the PC board 
leaves the body of the capacitors about 3/16" 
above the surface of the board.  Is this OK, or 
will it result in some kind of undesired circuit 
coupling?  (Unlike the instructions to install 
some other capacitors, there's no special 
cautionary note about the "bulk" installation of 
capacitors I'm doing now, per the second 
instruction on page 49 of the manual.)

If it's not OK, any suggestions as to how to get 
these kinds of components flush mounted without 
damaging them?

Thanks kindly,
Paul
N6LQ (ser. 03640)