RDA and Mech Mod Intro

[ChrisMcrUK]

My advice to you is to get used to using building on the RDA using it as a single coiler.

You've got to learn how to wrap a coil, using a 3mn diameter rod to coil it around. Do you have a coil jig? Or are you thinking of using something else?

Then you need to get used to installing the coil without deforming it too much, which usually means using the rod you wound it on to hold it as you screw it to the posts, then sliding the rod out.

Then you need to bed the coil in on an ohms reader or regulated mod, gently pulsing it to check for hot spots and squeezing it and strumming it until you get it glowing evenly from the centre outwards. You'll want some ceramic tweezers for this so you don't accidentally short circuit the coil and to insulate you from the heat - if you use a metal tool to do this you have to keep waiting for the coil to cool before you can work on it otherwise the metal tweezers will get too hot to hold, and you can't squeeze the coil whilst pulsing it like you can with ceramic tweezers.

A spaced coil is easier to bed in, but that's another step on your coiling journey. You'll still want ceramic tweezers.

What do you have in the way of a building kit?

Now, with dual coils, you need to do all that twice, ending up with two coils that glow identically when pulsed. This requires you to make 2 identical coils and get them both bedded in so they are glowing in a perfectly balanced way.

Don't try to run before you can walk.

Ok thanks

I've ordered this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182075229670

 

[speedfreek67]

Ok thanks

I've ordered this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182075229670

Ok, that should do the trick!

 

[ChrisMcrUK]

Ok, that should do the trick!

And ordered one of these too: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coil-Jig-Tool-DIY-Vape-Wire-Coil-Building-Tool-RBA-RTA-RDA/253848247285

Do coil diameters not really go above 3.5mm?

 

[oldhippydude]

And ordered one of these too: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coil-Jig-Tool-DIY-Vape-Wire-Coil-Building-Tool-RBA-RTA-RDA/253848247285

Do coil diameters not really go above 3.5mm?

I have seen folk go up to 4mm
There is no law against going bigger but with the right wire there is not much reason to.

 

[ChrisMcrUK]

What are clones? Are they fakes? And why would people buy a clone? Just to save money? Surely some of them are not safe??

 

[Deleted member 54254]

That's a whole new area of discussion tbh. There are many arguments for and against so at the end of the day, whatever you're comfortable with.

 

[oldhippydude]

What are clones? Are they fakes? And why would people buy a clone? Just to save money? Surely some of them are not safe??

Probably a topic for another thread.
But yes fakes.

 

[ChrisMcrUK]

Ok cool, thanks @oldhippydude and @John R

 

[oldhippydude]

Ok cool, thanks @oldhippydude and @John R

At one time "clone wars" would go on for days and get very heated. These days they break out less often and are less heated but if you want to revive the topic for members that have not been about for years then a new thread would be the way to go.

 

[speedfreek67]

And ordered one of these too: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coil-Jig-Tool-DIY-Vape-Wire-Coil-Building-Tool-RBA-RTA-RDA/253848247285

Do coil diameters not really go above 3.5mm?

You didn't need that, there's a coiling jig set in the coil master kit with 6 rods between 1.5 and 4mm.