This part is driving me nuts .....

[Nigel Goodwin]

As the existing design has an obvious design flaw (hence the reason for the diodes mechanically breaking), is there space to fit a different diode the other way up?, and solder wires from the diode to the PCB?. This would solve your pinout problem, and cure the breakages.

 

[gophert]

Read post 11 carefully. You can mount the bridge rectifier off-board and solder the jumper wires into the through-holes of the original component. Just use fat enough wire to handle the current expected.