Automatic hand micro coil making unit.

[VapingBad]

You can add a couple of washers and a spring to help keep the coil tight, not really needed the first one I posted works very well. It maybe just because this was the only spring I had handy, could do with a longer softer spring. The point is that its easy to put something together that works well.

[fiddles]

I knocked up a rough Version




All I can say is it's like one of them fancy kitchen gadgets, looks brilliant, the person demonstrating makes it look a breeze but when you get it home its another story. I found it harder to make nice tight coils than just using a drill or mandrel. I tried it, don't like it & it looked so good in video

[dalealan]

The French one reminded me of the keys on corned beef cans...hang on...hang on... Nope that didn't work

[VapingBad]

Jul 15, 2014 20:30:35 GMT fiddles said:

I knocked up a rough Version




All I can say is it's like one of them fancy kitchen gadgets, looks brilliant, the person demonstrating makes it look a breeze but when you get it home its another story. I found it harder to make nice tight coils than just using a drill or mandrel. I tried it, don't like it & it looked so good in video

I think it relies on some tension in the wire, you could put a bit off rubber on cloth in the guide holes to keep the wire tort.  I fine it easier turning the centre then you can leave the wire on the spool I hold the spool between your knees to create the tension.
YMMV

[dalealan]

Give it half an hour and Cousin Itt will have this knocked up in his shed

[Cousin Itt]

Jul 15, 2014 20:49:39 GMT dalealan said:

Give it half an hour and Cousin Itt will have this knocked up in his shed

[sleedale]

I'm sure they are a great idea, but if I'd seen that instead of reading Super-Shiny guide, I'd most likely still be buying coils, not making them. My efforts are probably nowhere near as good, but they work and are fairly quick and easy to do, using the few basic 'tools' I've got. Didn't know you were supposed to tension the wire while blasting it with the blowtorch before coiling ........I predict burnt fingers for me these gadgets look very complicated, I'm not very mechanically minded

[clairea]

we use something similar in jewellery making www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/360979757106?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108&ff19=0 that's just to show you pic, you can get them from around £2.99

[Die5el]

i have just bought one of these COILING-GIZMO-WITH-CLAMP-5-SPINDLE-/on ebay only £8.35 hopefully it will make coiling a lot easier but i find using the mandrel a piece of pi** to use, i read up about making my own coils about six months into my vaping journey and thought that looks hard and didn`t bother lol only about 5 weeks ago i started making my own coils and i cant believe how easy it is if you got the right tools for the job

[redz]

Nice. I'll have to check out the videos later. I've made a few failed attempts at coiling. I don't think my hands are nimble enough to do it. This may make things easier.

[vicuk]

this is the best thing I have seen to make coils

[Die5el]

i have received the coiling gizmo i bought from ebay only cost £8.35 including delivery on thursday and it is a breeze making coils wish i had got one a lot sooner its easy to use if i can use it (after my stroke my right side isn't working as it once was) any one can

[Pepperty]

that's brilliant news Die5el sounds like a really useful workaround for our members with hand dexterity issues! yay!