thank you all for the kind words and advice,

but alas if I stay up all night they will miss me at the scrap yard tomorrow morning!

I will certainly be checking in from time to time to see any more responses to the thread and working my way around the buyer forum peddling my meager wares for a brighter and happier tomorrow, there is a light at the end of the tunnel now....and as long as it is not a large capacitor everything is going to be alright!