I bought some from rat shack and they soldered fine. I guess being sick all week will suffice for my excuse. 
and you may be correct that those work and are what I am looking for but as I stated earlier, I went to 6 stores locally and everyone of them only had aluminum in the spade type for 14 awg wire.
but a little high priced I would guess. I should really call All Electronics as suggested by the first response just to be 100% sure they are not all aluminum like every store in town sells nowadays. I guess tinned and solderable or copper is what I need. Thanks for the link though as I may have to use it.
No, Those are the kind that everybody sells. I am looking for the type I can solder my wires to. Like the good old days with copper terminals.
Thanks to all the help I got here 
the tv is working again...Seems the lightning messed up a filter from the cable company as the neighbor had them over yesterday. The guy climbed the pole and messed with it and now all is normal. The funny thing is that the other tv seemed unaffected by the problem so it must be a better tv. Weird.
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Seems I always like computers the best but need the other hobbies for a break 
I don't think I will make a career of it but I like to be able to fix my own stuff and maybe a friend or two. Or even get some good deals on thrown out motherboards My soldering skills are ok and I have found when they weren't it was because of using cheap or junk equipment. When my Weller 1002 was working I could solder good. When I used a cheap RatShack...
I am going to get some Samxon's too as so far from what I read, they are worth a try. Eventually I will have some from all the good caps list as I like collecting repair parts so I have enough on hand for immediate use. I prefer to use the correct and quality parts so thats why all the questions. I have read a lot of the forums but there is always a question or two that remains. I ordered an ESR meter (still waiting on it to arrive) and got my new soldering equipment so soon I will...
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