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Permalink Reply by Turkish on October 19, 2010 at 9:05am

Buy pre-wired piezos and just concentrate on soldering the jack.

http://www.cbgitty.com/cubecart/index.php?act=viewProd&productI...

Permalink Reply by Skeesix on October 19, 2010 at 4:57pm

How about buying a wiring harness with everything already soldered together?

Permalink Reply by Mitchell Boren on October 20, 2010 at 4:49am

My eyesight is fine and I still had trouble soldering on a piezo. Ended up buying pre-soldered pickups from CB Gitty. They are cheap and much less stressful than trying to do it all yourself.

Permalink Reply by mark "mudcat" quigley on October 20, 2010 at 6:45am

i'd love to find eeverything pre soldered but haven't yet. i have to get so cklose to see with my eyes and then breathing the fumes from soldering just about does mei n. if i could see it would be no problem cb gitty has nice kit but it needs soldered

Permalink Reply by Turkish on October 20, 2010 at 7:43am

Mark, if you buy the pre-wired piezos and then fix the loose wire end to the jack using a crimp connector like this ...

.. that is as strong as a solder joint, and perfectly acceptable. Nil soldering, if you're not fussed about having a volume control. T.

Permalink Reply by mark "mudcat" quigley on January 31, 2011 at 12:07am

good i dea but the leads on the piezo are only bout 2" long


Turkish said:

Mark, if you buy the pre-wired piezos and then fix the wire end to the jack using a crimp connector like this ...

.. that is as as a solder joint, and perfectly acceptable.

Nil soldering, if you're not fussed about having a volume control.

T.

Permalink Reply by John W. Bradshaw on January 31, 2011 at 1:57pm

Just pig-tail more wire to the short ones and elictrical tape the ends.  If I was near, I'd solder for you.  Contact a High School near you with an electrical trades class.  They would help.

 

John Bradshaw, of Wimberley, TX.