Where do you get your wire?

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Where does everyone get their wires from? I'm talking about the funkier wires out there such as alien, clapton, square wire etc. I know I can build it myself, but for the first few times I mess around with it I would much rather buy it ready made since I don't want to spend 20 minutes twisting something only to have 15cm of wire which I then mess up anyway.

Stealthvape doesn't seem to sell these wires, FT takes way too long for delivery and other places I found are out of stock.

 

[5miley]

blue pig vaping

 

[diva]

Stealthvapes then I make my own funky wires [emoji16]

 

[Kippax]

I got mine from bold vape but they're out of stock at the moment.

Slightly more expensive but the same stuff https://noblevaping.co.uk/kanthal-clapton-resistance-wire-by-youde

 

[MrTeaTime]

There's a member on her that is seriously talented.. cloudcuckoo

 

[skinku]

If you don't like waiting for FT..
Web Store

 

[city461]

There's a member on her that is seriously talented.. cloudcuckoo

+1.. exceptional work..

 

[cloudcuckoo]

Where does everyone get their wires from? I'm talking about the funkier wires out there such as alien, clapton, square wire etc. I know I can build it myself, but for the first few times I mess around with it I would much rather buy it ready made since I don't want to spend 20 minutes twisting something only to have 15cm of wire which I then mess up anyway.

Stealthvape doesn't seem to sell these wires, FT takes way too long for delivery and other places I found are out of stock.

Heya chap, 'funky' coils are no harder, sometimes easier to wrap than 'normal' coils. Aliens are by far too much hassle to be bothering with, like a lot of wires its the prep work not the twiddling that takes time. To get to doing aliens its a case of learning claptons, reverse claptoning and fused claptons using 3 cores. All a ballache.

Standard claptons prob offer the best vape vs time to produce. Fused for me offers the best vape, others will disagree.

If you can build the wire and can wrap coils you're away, its only when start doing stitched aliens or tsuka coils that wrapping the coil becomes a pain/poss waste of good wire

Have a crack, good chance you've got what you need in the vape box, a few pennies worth of wire and a little time, job done.

Theres a vid in the how to section called 'claptons by a numbnut' which some have found helpful. Fk knows how lol.

 

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I do twist my own wire already and really would like to build the more complex wires myself, but first I want to practise getting the resistance right and making sure my coiling technique is working for me. I feel that it will take me some attempts to get my coiling right with the new wire so I don't want to waste time making the wire at first.

Thanks for posting everyone, I now have a place to get clapton wire from. Can anyone tell me if there is any advantage to using Nichrome core over Kanthal core is on a non-TC mod? Would the ramp up time be faster?

 

[cloudcuckoo]

I do twist my own wire already and really would like to build the more complex wires myself, but first I want to practise getting the resistance right and making sure my coiling technique is working for me. I feel that it will take me some attempts to get my coiling right with the new wire so I don't want to waste time making the wire at first.

Thanks for posting everyone, I now have a place to get clapton wire from. Can anyone tell me if there is any advantage to using Nichrome core over Kanthal core is on a non-TC mod? Would the ramp up time be faster?

NiCr offers lower resistance for the same amount of wraps/gauge of wire vs kanthal. And it goes pretty colours when dry burned.

If you're working on sorting your builds to get resistance bang on i'd stick with kanthal as its one less variable.

NiCr does have a slightly quicker ramp.

The flaw with buying ready made clapton wire is it comes on a spool and isn't straight when you go to coil it. Tidier coils come from having really straight wire from the out set.

The clapton of the coil be it fused, standard or alien etc has vert little (if any) effect on the resistance. Electricity is lazy and will take the fastest route point to point, that route being the fat wire in your core.

Either way, have fun with it.