My coily goodness adventures

[enjay]

So last time I posted was my first coiling job on my new AGI, well I've since gotten some ribbon stuff for coils from a friend and figured I'd have a go with it. First I used the mesh wick



And it was just nuts lol, spitting like an old woman on fire!




Anyway I had a bit of silica and wanted to try out maccafan's idea. 

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/14719/aga-silica-wick?page=1&scrollTo=288251

But using the ribbon kanthal? I presume it's kanthal anyway

Hardest part I found was wrapping the ends with the mesh



Made a slight alteration too, measured the wick



And used my magical tool to hold it while I wound a coil



Popped it in and trapped the ends of the coil



Not hot spots and a steady 1.5ohms






I have to say, it's really really smooth, lovely flavour and a generally all round nice vape, very pleased with this one. I find the ribbon stuff very easy to work with too. Well worth the effort to me but it is only my 3rd coil so far so maybe I'll change my mind by the end of the week lol

Anyway I've ordered a pile of supplies so more coily stuff on the way. Cheers all

[chykensa]

Nice one! Good to see pictures too, helps those of us that like looking rather than reading!

[enjay]

Cheers man, just done my first micro coil with the ribbon wire, it's coming up at 3ohms but man does it vape! No pics though lol. Running it at 15 watts just now but I'm going to try it lower and see how it performs especially as 3ohms sounds quite high. It certainly produces really superb vape though, lots of it.


Ps even at 10watts it vapes like a trooper, now I'm going to set it aside and see if the thing leaks still.

[xs2man]

Nice work. That mesh / ribbon combo looks wild. Glad it's working out for you. Can't wait to get a hold of my upcoming Genesis so I can try it.

[Clivia]

wow I am impressed - great work

[enjay]

Cheers guys and just so everyone knows, this is xs2man's fault, he got me into vaping and also gave me some bits lol

[enjay]

Ok so how about some steel rope wick. First I measured it up, wrapped a bit of insulation tape around it and cut it with a dremmel type tool. Gave a really nice clean cut and no fraying wires everywhere.



Then give the rope a good heat then wrap a little piece of mesh around one end where the coil will be.



I then gave that a heat as you do with any mesh, wrapped a coil round it and dropped it in, took the ends and trapped them in their relative places.






It's come up at 1 ohm and works perfect in my SVD, don't know what the lower limit is on that thing but I haven't found it so far.



I am chuffed, no hot spots or any of that annoyance, just pure lovely flavoursome vape! It's yum. I've currently filled this one with a caramel blend from joose juice, it's like vaping on sticky toffee pudding lol.

Anyway I'm loving it, this is by far the most successful attempt I've done so far. Cheers

[xs2man]

Love it. Your obviously getting on well with building coils.

Sorry for giving you yet another tinkering hobby, lol.

[enjay]

Lol first one took me hours and it still went a bit wonky but this latest one seems to be holding up perfect. I'm winding the coil on before fitting the wick then just clamping the ends when I slot the wick in, seems to give me a better all round result.

Next on my list to try is using the wire rope but in the same way as the silica one so I have like a double wick. Might not work but hey hp, it's good fun.


This is a good tinkering hobby too, it has to be one of the cheaper ones I've had so far lol

[enjay]

Twisted micro coil on my RBA






It works anyway, really, really quiet too

[Steve (VapeStorm)]

Stop showing off lol all I can do is single micros in my dripper

[enjay]

Feb 24, 2014 1:55:28 GMT Steve (VapeStorm) said:

Stop showing off lol all I can do is single micros in my dripper

Ha ha they're not always perfect but I find it great fun to try. It's mad with the wire rope wick, keeps on going after you stop pressing the button, the rope gets quite hot so you need to watch that. I think I'm going back to silica next but no idea what variation of coil lol. I fancy trying a dual coil if possible. I think it can be done. One vertical in the usual spot and one horizontal in the dripper posts. I'll need to figure it out as I go but at least I definitely wont get stupid shorts lol. (Not those kind of shorts)

[Deleted]

You're obsessed with coiling LOL enjay

Don't you have anything else to play with? Soon you'll take over todd tee hee

[enjay]

I had a shot on the guitar, shot some baddies in CODMW 2 and watched some youtube vids at the same time lol

[geordie_vaper]

if your into your mad coils you should watch rip trippers videos you have probs already but if you havent check them out