Ishouldknowthis

[dewayne]

Ive taken out some weird 3 knob, mini humbucker only in bridge, splitter setup that never fully worked. I have issues with soldering due to limited mobility in neck and not fully healed broken left hand (I'm a lefty), so I have gone with solder less one pickup, volume only, setup. My issue is that when tightening screw down to make connection, wire get pushed out of (socket?) and I have to strip more wire each time it does this. Any ideas on keeping wire stationary? I tried everything I can think of and it's pissing me off. I still not exactly sure where wires go so i don't want it permanent until I'm sure. I hope this wasn't too confusing.

[ezbass]

Is it a solid core or multiple fibres? If solid core, I'd strip twice as much as you think you need, bend it in half and twist from left to right, to present a textured surface to the screw. If multi core, strip a good length and, again, twist from left to right, this should stop the twist from unravelling. 

[dewayne]

Multi. Screw shreds the wire. This particular wire is not 22 awg. Now I'm thinking one of those metal wire/terminal tubes that get crimped. Dont know if I got one small enough, (wire connector!), to wedge into terminal(whatever it's called) on top of the pot. Thanks, this has annoyed me in the past but eventually got it to work without using too much wire. Lace Sensor's aren't cheap

[ezbass]

Try tinning the twisted wire with solder beforehand if you can manage it (I saw this might be an issue).

[dewayne]

I got em. No sound so I've got to try again. I may have mistakenly mentioned lace sensor pickups but it's Wilkerson mini humbuckers. If anyone is bored could you tell which color wires go where. Red, black, green/yellow, blue/white. I'm tempted to say I know where red and black go but maybe I'm wrong. Plus it is a set up for split coil. That shouldn't affect much but maybe I'm wrong.i usually am with guitar electronics. I haven't been soldering much last few years so I didn't even think of tinning. Thanks.