Attaching to the screws

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MarcusV

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Oct 17, 2012
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Is it just me? I never see any advice (hardly ever anyway) related to attaching our coils to their screws. I am referring to nonRDAs, which are much more obvious, as in push it through the hole. I am am referring to the average RTA/RBA build with 2 screws. Yes my fingers are big, thats why its taken a while to be good at making coils. So, I'm not asking for advice on making the coils here. I was hoping to get any and all comments related to tricks we use to getting the darn things attached to the screws. Holding the coils and getting the wire under the screw and tightening is a b*tch for me. I damage many a coils trying to attach them. AM I the only one with this problem? Thanks fellow vapes for all the advice you have!
 

flog

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Nov 7, 2014
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Long leads, 2-3 inches on coil, better to hold on to.
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180 degrees clockwise around screw and if you need more holding power, do a 180 under the form.
Clock wise 180 deg wrap.jpg

Keeping the form in the coil, position it until satisfied. You're done.
After a bit of shoving.jpg

Actually, that was the second one, the first one kind of went ........oops (didn't keep form in coil)
oops.jpg

So to recap - long leads - 180 CW - keep form on until all done

Hope this helps

PS something to hold the base of the atty helps a lot, if you do use a DNA 40 device to hold it, when done with coil, unscrew it, press button for the "check atty" prompt, then screw back in. Reason being, if the device is watching you build the coil, it get's angry and doesn't work right without resetting it.
 
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