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[jester81]

Thanks bud, I appreciate the reply, I have some flat wire, which I liked made some nice coils from it, but never even heard of rectangle, so i will try that next, are you using a jig to wrap your wires, I. E tiger wire wraps, electric drill one end, and something that spins the other end? Making your own Claptons? Fused Claptons etc. I like stainless and I have some 316 its much easier to work with but I have some stock ni 80 and a whole load of kanthal so i think I will work on that for now. Do you have a preference for where you get your wire from?

Mark never a problem. I too am an engineer and have a bit of OCD ( as i think most engineers do ) LOL. the rectangle wire was bought by mistake from Totally Wicked but i Have to say it has come in handy,its KA1. when put in a drill setup and turned slowly it spirals great giving a good effect.If done with 2 lengths and then wrapped with a fine KA or Ni80 gives a VERY nice twisted clapton. My real only advice is to build to the size of your rig ie holes and height. I tend to play around alot with the height i sit my coils in my unit to get best air flow as i like a long draw, the only down side to this is the wicking as it to it quite long and takes abit of time to get the juicw up, i counter acted this with a dripper and hay presto!!
Wire wise i habe got from CrazyWire but i have had my issues with them and delivering, meaning they didn't but everything has been sorted and the wire is really good and the price is good to. Dont get carried away with buying loads of different wires work out say 2 to 3 builds you want to do and order to that, remember though clapton/fused will use alot more of your finer wire ( i normally order min of 50 mtrs.
If your after say pre sorted wire but you want to coil your own try flatwire.co.uk the taste is amazing.

As for building i tend to do what i fancy if it works then great if not nobodys diead and throw it away and stat agian. some of my best coils have come from mistakes. failing that use then for jewllary lol.

if there is anything else i can help with message me mate ill get back to you asap.

Hope some of this helped

forgot to say that first pic of mine is 2 fused claptons twisted together then smoothed with the flat part of some pliers but slowly as the drill turns about 8 or 9 passes

 

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks bud, some good info in there. I will probably do my own wire as I find that making my own tends to yield the results I want, I'm just finishing my jig as I has some old rc output shafts for a 4 wd 10th scale and It has ceramic bearings in it, so i won't need to get swivels.

I will look up crazy wire, see what they have, I've noticed a lot of builders use ni 80 as the wrap wire so I will get more of that. Probably in 36 and 38 gauge.

As soon as I get some builds going I will post them in here, just go easy on me I'm still trying out different stuff, but thanks for the encouragement and please keep posting so myself and others can see what other stuff you come up with.

 

[jester81]

Thanks bud, some good info in there. I will probably do my own wire as I find that making my own tends to yield the results I want, I'm just finishing my jig as I has some old rc output shafts for a 4 wd 10th scale and It has ceramic bearings in it, so i won't need to get swivels.

I will look up crazy wire, see what they have, I've noticed a lot of builders use ni 80 as the wrap wire so I will get more of that. Probably in 36 and 38 gauge.

As soon as I get some builds going I will post them in here, just go easy on me I'm still trying out different stuff, but thanks for the encouragement and please keep posting so myself and others can see what other stuff you come up with.

Thanks and yeah post up here,

“ we are all learning mate if we aren’t learning new things what’s the point “

 

[doobiesnax]

They certainly look fancy...but...do they make any difference to flavour?

 

[jester81]

I think so yeah fancy isn’t always the right way I’ve learnt this but it’s fun trying.
Your after a large area with a quick ramp up so ribbon wire is great you have a large area and being thin it ramps up quickly. All you have to do is workout what you want.

They certainly look fancy...but...do they make any difference to flavour?

 

[doobiesnax]

I think so yeah fancy isn’t always the right way I’ve learnt this but it’s fun trying.
Your after a large area with a quick ramp up so ribbon wire is great you have a large area and being thin it ramps up quickly. All you have to do is workout what you want.

Flavour dude, flavour. I want it to taste like I’m eating sweets!.....if you can get my taste buds to work and actually taste something, I’m willing to try different wire!

 

[jester81]

Flavour dude, flavour. I want it to taste like I’m eating sweets!.....if you can get my taste buds to work and actually taste something, I’m willing to try different wire!

lmao

ok ok ok flavour flavour flavour i would stay away from all KA type wire you will get a metal/tin taste from them. Stainless is very nice a clean 316L is nice to work with ( i use the for most of my builds ). Ni80 or Ni90 are good although i havent hit on much of these at the moment unless wrapping claptons. I know you can both these wires in ribbon form so you could do an easy build quick and taste the rewards. Later on you couls also use ribbon in clapton builds.

hope this helps mate

 

[doobiesnax]

lmao

ok ok ok flavour flavour flavour i would stay away from all KA type wire you will get a metal/tin taste from them. Stainless is very nice a clean 316L is nice to work with ( i use the for most of my builds ). Ni80 or Ni90 are good although i havent hit on much of these at the moment unless wrapping claptons. I know you can both these wires in ribbon form so you could do an easy build quick and taste the rewards. Later on you couls also use ribbon in clapton builds.

hope this helps mate

Thanks for that! I’m just using the wire that came with my rebuild kit atm ( couldn’t tell you what it is off hand, I’m at work, but betting it’s the most basic of basic wire) Will try your recommendations!

 

[jester81]

Ok so I’ve vaped my coil to death at work lol. Thought I just do a quick but effective build. Found some flat capton 316L, 7 wraps - pulls in at 0.30 ohm @ 66.0W, batt drain 11.9A ramp settles at 10.5A.

Nice and simple but good flavour

 

[silk186]

Beautiful work, it can inspire others to get into it!