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It's certainly going to need lots of amps.

After too may failures, I've given up on Ni-Cd powered drills. Usefully, the most recent failure was a short enough time ago that my replacement cordless is coming from the household budget, not my vaping one :D I have a bosch corded drill, which is very good, but also rather loud. The...

That looks stunningly familiar to me (mine were branded by the B&M I bought them at - I gave one battery/clearo set to a neighbour who wanted to try quitting the stinkies (now successfully), and still have the other in waiting - I must get an additional charger so I can throw that in, and keep...

I only just noticed your sig with transition date - we are very close, as I got my first aspire bvc on the 6th Feb 2017, and smoked 9 cigs by the 12th, when I realised I hadn't had any at all, and haven't since. I was actually waiting to get started on vaping, as (I think I mentioned) I'm...

CoilMaster describe their wires as "Hive" when the two pairs of twisted wires are twisted together the same way, not the opposite way, as well.

This pictures shows both inner and outer twists in the same direction. Whether you regard that as CW or CCW depends on which end you look at it from.

A "basic" 2x2 28AWG cord build can be seen in How did you coil/wick/cotton your tank today? where the poster (bwh79) asked if there was a name for it. Having checked around, there does not seem to be a coil-building specific name, so I responded with the rope/cable making one, which seems...

Corded (as in rope/cable making) - multiple twisted wires twisted together in the opposite direction. As in cables and ropes, they would be described as 2x2 corded for the simplest examples with 2 twisted pairs twisted around each other, but could in theory go as far as you like - anyone fancy...

I believe the technical term for twisting twisted strands against each other in the opposite direction is "Cording" as used in rope and cable making. So that would mean you have two 2x2 corded coils in parallel.

Maybe they've realized that as the market has matured, they just can't get away with their old practices any more. They've certainly seemed to be improving, and this may well be another step towards respectability. The realisation that there is someone (Mooch, of course) who will and does test...

I can now add to that the positive pin of a Velocity V2 clone, which on removing the plug to use it (with working build) on a dripbox, started swinging wildly in resistance. It turned out the plug was all that was holding it together (well, there was a tiny sliver of metal from the thread -...

I think you must mean the version that came in the protank, and which does not seem to be available anymore, since a couple of reviewers discovered the negative (velocity style) post had come loose and was merely press fitted into the base of the deck. That one does have holes, but they are...

In addition to all the aformentioned, they provide a "sanity check" on the total build. Is the resistance higher or lower than expected? If so, you can start probing for a reason which could be anything from an improperly tightened down clamp screw to a loosely fitted deck post, a short part...

I was thinking more along the lines of a visor type device that you wear on your head. (yeah, uber-geeky I know!). That way, you get both eyes focused on the subject independently, and proper depth perception - I've seen several devices, and most look to be somewhat flimsy, so I'm hoping for...

I run out of hands though - with a magnifying glass, holding the build so that I can see it myself, then the camera, I'd need at least 3 :) I'm currently on the lookout for recommendations on a suitable magnifying visor to I can free one hand from holding the magnifying glass - I've seen people...

It is my understanding that breathing the vapour given off by just about any glowing metal is inadvisable at best, although that is normally something which is only of concern to welders who may be exposed to much higher concentrations from far higher temperatures and over much longer periods...

I'm on the look out for something like that - the sort of thing that looks like a VR device, but is for magnifying and usually illuminating the work. Seen several types, so looking for recommendations of disrecommendations on specific models. My eyesight isn't all that great, and complicated...

Thank you for the welcome everyone. I know I still have a lot of reading to do, but I seem to have got off to a decent start (the fact that I found my way here looking for Mooch's battery test tables should show that!). I was very lucky to have a good mentor in the very earliest stages (the...

I like SS316L too - safe for power or temp control, can get some real pretty colours from heat if you pulse it gently, and IMO should be the default now instead of Kanthal. I have a pair of 1 ohm (ish) 3.5mm 28AWG 8 wrap coils horizontally in a UD Igo W7, but the "ish" is because it's made 0.54...

I'm sure people will find ways to get around the new restrictions - it'll be like being back to the early days of home modding, which I've read about, although I wasn't vaping at the time), as it's sales and import that are nobbled, not what people can build themselves! How they think that'll...