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[oldhippydude]

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I bought something like that in a moment of madness because it was cheap from China so I threw it in the basket,
I still use the handle part with the 2.5mm rod and wrap my coil like I do on a 2.5mm screwdriver.
I remove the rod from the handle with the coil still on and mount the coil.

The clever bit that is meant to make coiling easier just complicated things for me.
The local pounds shop sells sets of small screwdrivers that include all the useful sizes and work as well for the job.

Wrapping some wire round a rod is not the hard part of coiling. It is mounting it in the tank when you want extra hands ,till you get used to it.

 

[Frogprince]

I use one of the coily jig things all the time for mtl coils. Much quicker and easier for me than hand wrapping around a rod. For bigger coils I just use a rod though.

 

[Crewella]

I use one of the coily jig things all the time for mtl coils. Much quicker and easier for me than hand wrapping around a rod. For bigger coils I just use a rod though.

I know lots of people do find them useful.

 

[oldhippydude]

I use one of the coily jig things all the time for mtl coils. Much quicker and easier for me than hand wrapping around a rod. For bigger coils I just use a rod though.

Perhaps it relates to when you first encounter a coil jig.
Did you first use one in your early coil building days?

I certainly remember spending hours trying to get a good build into an atty, for several weekends , before feeling I was getting on top of it.

Perhaps at that point a jig might have made the coiling part of the process easier, if I spent some time learning to use it.
Some of us had got past any difficultie in wrapping some wire round a rod before encountering a jig so it seems to us to bring nothing but complication to the easier part of the process..

With or without a jig It is a fiddly process to get to grips with that takes a bit of practice before becoming easy.

 

[Crewella]

Perhaps it relates to when you first encounter a coil jig.
Did you first use one in your early coil building days?

I certainly remember spending hours trying to get a good build into an atty, for several weekends , before feeling I was getting on top of it.

Perhaps at that point a jig might have made the coiling part of the process easier, if I spent some time learning to use it.
Some of us had got past any difficultie in wrapping some wire round a rod before encountering a jig so it seems to us to bring nothing but complication to the easier part of the process..

With or without a jig It is a fiddly process to get to grips with that takes a bit of practice before becoming easy.

Yep, that was me too. And I first started building with wrapping wire round silica wick and rebuilding Protank type coils, so it was easier for me to just keeping wrapping.

 

[Frogprince]

I used one of the multi diameter rods at first and would often forget how many wraps id done so had to use phone camera to try and count them.
first couple of tries with the coily jig I thought it was shit with wraps overlapping previous wrap, then 3rd try I didn't put any downward pressure on the top part that you turn and got a perfect contact coil, although I space them anyway.

Thinking back to when I used the rod I was wrapping as contact then spacing, only just now realised i could have just wrapped them wide spaced and pushed the wraps together after.

 

[Crewella]

I used one of the multi diameter rods at first and would often forget how many wraps id done so had to use phone camera to try and count them.
first couple of tries with the coily jig I thought it was shit with wraps overlapping previous wrap, then 3rd try I didn't put any downward pressure on the top part that you turn and got a perfect contact coil, although I space them anyway.

Thinking back to when I used the rod I was wrapping as contact then spacing, only just now realised i could have just wrapped them wide spaced and pushed the wraps together after.

Yep - too much pressure was behind my inadvertent pancake coil too.

 

[Reggiec]

It’s okay for us old time vapers to say it’s easier to build a coil, with a screwdriver or even a drill bit. But we have been doing it for years.

I started with a drill bit and it took me months to get it right.

The new tools they have out now are a great help to someone who is just getting in to building there own coils. Especially the coil master jig

 

[Crewella]

It’s okay for us old time vapers to say it’s easier to build a coil, with a screwdriver or even a drill bit. But we have been doing it for years.

I started with a drill bit and it took me months to get it right.

The new tools they have out now are a great help to someone who is just getting in to building there own coils. Especially the coil master jig

I think it's also the kind of coils. I do simple 28 AWG kanthal roundwire contact coils, and started with 30 AWG and 32 AWG. I really did find the coil jigs actually made it harder when I was starting.

 

[Reggiec]

The coil jig is only good for the thicker wire, 30g 32g are just to thin.

26g down is okay with the jig.

I use the jig when I’m wrapping a TSFC but I don’t use the hole. I use a small pair of vice grips to hold my wire in place then just wrap away quite the thing.