OK, so on the coil: funny thing. Hard to explain, but that last build kin'a vaped like it took to make it. I swear I could feel the electricity hesitating at the crooks. It vaped . . .. . "complicated". So, I took a chance on 2mm ID, which allowed me to just do a straight-up 5 3/4 wrap (still right around .162Ω tho). Anyhoo, the cotton is keeping up just fine at 2mm ID on the 23g wire, and I'm a happy camper. Great vape!
So, now, these↓ pics here may not
look like pictures of magnets . . . but, believe me when I tell you, these here are magnet pics. I'll start prepping the mags tonight and insert them into SFM's "inbox" tomorrow to see if there's any attraction ( . .. . errrmm . . I mean install them in the mods tomorrow).