Blue-ish colored coil

[Vapefiend]

Hey everyone I've been rebuilding for about two years now and I feel quite like a novice asking this. Today I built my coil extremely well, better than I ever have before. I noticed it had a blue color/hue to it. Maybe I've just never noticed this before but what does this coloration mean?

Thanks for your input!

 

[sonicbomb]

What metal is the coil and have you heated it yet?

 

[mongo74]

^^^what sonic said. I'll bet it's titanium.

 

[whiteowl84]

Kanthal, n80 and SS will all turn blue. It's what happens when you heat metal. Start cleaning them with soap and a toothbrush then rinse and you'll get much better color.

 

[Vapefiend]

It was kanthal that came straight from the roll. I did heat it and pinch with ceramic tweezers like I usually do. I had no idea about dirty kanthal especially when it was a new coil :s

 

[whiteowl84]

Dirty kanthal? Touching the wire leaves oil on it. Oils and other contaminants ruin the color.
This is what SS and n80 color like when you clean it. There are more stages of color than what is in the picture.

 

[Vapefiend]

I'll try cleaning it from now on. Honestly I never touch it until I make a coil and usually wash my hands before. I think there was some other colors in with the blue but I saw mostly blue. I've really never noticed colors before. Thanks for the advice whiteowl

 

[whiteowl84]

Kanthal will turn blue to green as it gets hotter and every color between them. If you aren't going for a color shot you don't need to clean them. Anything on the surface will burn off anyway and it's not going to affect the vape.

 

[Skeintastic]

"color shot"

Hehe... Poor guy made vapeporn and it scared him enough to ask about it.

Kind of like when you press play on your fathers vcr and then ask about what you saw. And frack modernity I'm not updating my simile.

 

[whiteowl84]

"color shot"

Hehe... Poor guy made vapeporn and it scared him enough to ask about it.

Kind of like when you press play on your fathers vcr and then ask about what you saw. And frack modernity I'm not updating my simile.

Skeet skeet...

 

[Vapefiend]

Thanks..

 

[Carl2]

I just watched a vid of a person coloring the tank covers using a torch, it goes from a gold to a blue color.

 

[whiteowl84]

framed staples?

Staple staggered but yes. If the ribbon is on edge between frames it's a framed staple of some sort.

 

[Carl2]

While making some SS coils I just got a rainbow effect, nice looking, I also got a slight increase in resistance, .63 to .66 that I more concerned about.

 

[whiteowl84]

While making some SS coils I just got a rainbow effect, nice looking, I also got a slight increase in resistance, .63 to .66 that I more concerned about.

Fixing the hotspots should raise the resistance.

 

[Carl2]

I've just found that with stainless I can't switch between the Eleaf and Kanger vaporizer which I could do while using nickel wire. I'm once again switching to the nickel wire