The New Official Post Your Coil Porn Thread

[SLIPPY_EEL]

DOH! Tom i think i need my eyes checked, dam!
must be the reason why they were cheap, argh! i'm gonna go poke myself in the eyes

 

[Tom Forde]

DOH! Tom i think i need my eyes checked, dam!
must be the reason why they were cheap, argh! i'm gonna go poke myself in the eyes

It says underneath that they have either full brass or full SS.

 

[Mrez]

Whys it come with a brass deck no matter the color? Looks pretty 1:1 to me otherwise with the posts & screws from what I can tell. Pick one up if you want, just see if they come with stainless decks as well because upkeep on brass/copper is a PITA on an atty/deck. She'll patina real quick with the amount of heat being tranferred and most of that is going to happen on the inside of the atty.
@Mrez congrats! You finally got some aliens down! Try this: have all 3 ends secured in the swivel, but make sure they're all equal tension and secure them all at the same time. Also, use tape in the middle & at the end of the length of cores to ensure they stay parallel. You can either slide the tape (while holding tension on the cores, use your finger nails to kinda get under the tape and slide it towards the swivel) in the middle up once you reach that spot with the wrap or you can skip right over it and use it as a marker to start a length for coil number 2.

Thanks, I'll try that today or tomorrow, since we're pretty well snowed in. I was thinking I could take the ends that I was going to secure into the swivel, twist them together and hammer them flat, secure them flat( or just the middle one, so the frames dont bunch), then slightly spread the main lengths, pulling them tight and even before securing them in the wire vice. Looks like I'll be putting in another LV order. I'm totally out of 26 ni80, and just about out of 26 gauge kanthal. The 34 gauge wrap makes the coil very stiff. Not sure if i want to try again with 38 gauge, or purchase some 36.

Edit: The spacing in the wraps I can kinda deal with...but that one janky wrap is really bugging the hell out of me.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

 

[WharfRat1976]

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Oooooo, great idea for the velocity. Beautiful coil slip...wow. I bet the flavor is intense.

 

[jonny45378]

Just a simple twisted 28g nichrome with 30 g nichrome put in the grooves of the twisted wire. Came out to .39 ohms.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

Oooooo, great idea for the velocity. Beautiful coil slip...wow. I bet the flavor is intense.

Hey Wharf
Yes it has great flavour bud, it is a 24g alien, 1/8th id @ 0.15ohm in the Temple rda(30mm), is the first time i tried 24g in an alien, i'm running rayon wick through it, ive never known a build to guzzle juice like this thing

 

[Tom Forde]

Hey Wharf
Yes it has great flavour bud, it is a 24g Alien, 1/8th id @ 0.15ohm in the Temple rda(30mm), is the first time i tried 24g in an alien, i'm running rayon wick through it, ive never known a build to guzzle juice like this thing

What's in the middle of that monster alien? Ribbon cores?

That's the 24g framed alien track (4 strand of 32 in the middle) I threw in my hobo when I traded it for a monster v3. Never got to fire her but I hear she was an absolute animal.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

26 & 35g

Tom the other Alien i posted is 32g covering 3x 24g all n80

 

[Rockwell222]

Quick question for everyone out there. I want to do a framed staple alien with around 5 or 6 strips of .4 ribbon and 28ka1 or 5 or 6 strips of .5 ribbon and 26ka1. The question is what do I wrap on to make the decored Clapton? I would assume 24g for the 26ka1 framed staple and 26g for the 28ka1 framed staple. And do you need to stretch it more or less then a usual alien? Also any ideas of what the best would be for the framed staple? I don't want some crazy beastly coil but I do like a larger coils just not insanely large. Thanks for any advice.

 

[Superfecta_]

Quick question for everyone out there. I want to do a framed staple alien with around 5 or 6 strips of .4 ribbon and 28ka1 or 5 or 6 strips of .5 ribbon and 26ka1. The question is what do I wrap on to make the decored Clapton? I would assume 24g for the 26ka1 framed staple and 26g for the 28ka1 framed staple. And do you need to stretch it more or less then a usual alien? Also any ideas of what the best would be for the framed staple? I don't want some crazy beastly coil but I do like a larger coils just not insanely large. Thanks for any advice.

I always use 6x cores. 26x2 6x.5 or 28x2 .4x6 OG claptons are on a 26 or a 28 gauge depending on the variation I'm making. I tend to stretch my cores less, and let them stretch as I'm wrapping. It's a lot easier to alien a properly prepped framed staple due to not having any core twisting issues.

 

[Rockwell222]

I always use 6x cores. 26x2 6x.5 or 28x2 .4x6 OG claptons are on a 26 or a 28 gauge depending on the variation I'm making. I tend to stretch my cores less, and let them stretch as I'm wrapping. It's a lot easier to alien a properly prepped framed staple due to not having any core twisting issues.

So whatever my frame is I can do the Clapton in the same gauge to decore it? Another words if I did 6* .5 ribbon with 26g frames then I can wrap a Clapton and decore it with 26g. I just want to make sure I have a good chance in making it first try. I've gotten to a point where I can make aliens pretty easily with multiple gauges so I'm confident I can do it as long as I know the correct wires to start with. Thanks for the help.

 

[Superfecta_]

So whatever my frame is I can do the Clapton in the same gauge to decore it?

Yes

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

 

[Tom Forde]

So whatever my frame is I can do the Clapton in the same gauge to decore it? Another words if I did 6* .5 ribbon with 26g frames then I can wrap a Clapton and decore it with 26g. I just want to make sure I have a good chance in making it first try. I've gotten to a point where I can make aliens pretty easily with multiple gauges so I'm confident I can do it as long as I know the correct wires to start with. Thanks for the help.

Start out with a 26g frame and either a 4x .4 or .5 staple. I say use 4 pieces of ribbon because it's going to come out relatively the same size as a 3 core 26g, .405mm on the frames 4ply .(width) X .1 - comes out to .400mm, so it's going to be a little bit easier to work with on your first frample alien. I'm waiting for my Kidney Puncher order to get to me, I have some .3mm coming in along with .2x.2mm square wire. I'm gonna go for the 30g/32g FSA & other fun things

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

post #405 Tom, the last pic!

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

The best tasting coil ive had recently

 

[Tom Forde]

The best tasting coil ive had recently
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5 loop?

The usual for me. Frample alien. No edits on any pics, finally got some decent quality from this iPhone camera & $3.46 macro lens.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

Zero edits on any of my pic's either, part from re-sizing. Also using iphone and a cheap clip-on micro lens.
Yes 5 loop.

 

[CrazyChef]

So I had a hankering to make some framed alien staple coils.

(6) 0.5x0.1 cores, 2x26g frames, 36g alien wrap