Does anyone re-soder their peizo's

[Jerryrig240]

      I can get some peizo's pretty cheap...but, when I get them, the wires are kinda small and thin.  I want to just take off the wires that come with them and replace them with some stronger, longer, copper wire...does anyone replace their peizo wire?

[Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates]

Have had to but when I did a bonehead thing. -WY

[Mark Werner]

The very first article I looked up on dealing with piezos recommended replacing those thin leads with a piece of regular audio cable. That's what I've been doing ever since.
The audio cable is the sort of stuff you might get at Radio Shack for most "cables" they sell. The inner, hot wire is the one inside, and the woven wire around the outside (just under the plastic "skin") is the ground.
Just de-solder the existing leads, cut and bend the audio cable so it fits right with the hot lead on the inner part of the piezo and the ground to the metal plate.
"Tin" the ends of these wires, then all you have to do is touch the little solder blobs with your iron till they melt and stick the tinned wire-ends in to the blob.
Wire the other end in like fashion to your jack and you're ready to go.

[MichaelS Country Boy Guitars]

I had a piezo with no leads and it soldered up just fine.

[HENRY LOWMAN]

Always! I use audio cable and solder that on instead of using the thin wire. My results have been excellent once I got the hang of it, as long as I ground the thing properly on the 1/4" audio jack...LOL!

[Jerryrig240]

What do you mean by grounding? As far as wire go...I have a whole truck full of small, thin wire. so I will not run short any time soon. I bought 6 peizo's today and some of that liquid electric tape stuff. I re-sodered the peizo, dipped it in the goo a couple of times and it worked just fine. I am just trying to fine tune the feed back. I have one now that I have glued between two peices of hard felt from the dollar store. Just to tone down the noise a bit.

HENRY LOWMAN said:

Always! I use audio cable and solder that on instead of using the thin wire. My results have been excellent once I got the hang of it, as long as I ground the thing properly on the 1/4" audio jack...LOL!