← Shop

Copper Litz Tonearm Wire (HDPE)

Copper Litz Tonearm Wire (HDPE)

£12.95

In stock

Litz tonearm wire in solid HDPE insulation, sold by the half metre. Quantity 1 is 0.5 metres, quantity 2 a full metre, and so on. Most tonearm rewires use under half a metre, so one unit covers one arm; order more if your arm is long or you want spare to practise with.

The set is four separately coloured wires: both channels, signal & return, for a full rewire from the cartridge tags to the base of the arm. Each wire carries 7 strands of Ø0.07mm high purity copper in a Litz construction, enamel coated. It's the same copper as our silk version, under solid HDPE instead.

The difference is the outer covering & how you take it off. The silk has to be burned & scraped away. The HDPE strips back from the ends with a fine-gauge wire stripper; we use the Engineer PA-14, which grips wire this thin without nicking the conductors, leaving the enamel-coated copper ready to tin.

The strands are enamel coated, so tin the ends by around 5mm before use. The heat burns off the enamel & lets the solder take. Without it you're soldering onto insulation & get no connection. This wire is best suited to someone who's soldered before.