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Got my nickel wire and couldn't resist trying my hand at making a coil, using the fine threaded screw method mentioned earlier, and sticking it on the rba deck that came with the Kanger Subtank Mini. It worked perfectly. I turned out a picture perfect 10 wrap coil as evenly spaced as the threads on the screw and ended up at exactly 0.2 ohms, so, even though there is no temperature control, it would still fire on the istick at 20 watts. Wicking it, as I suspected it might, messed up the perfectly spaced aspect of it, but it still fired so I filled up the Subtank Mini with Crème de la Vie and took it for a spin.
Wow! Just wow! Crème de la Vie is a magnificent rich and creamy juice. Right in the zone of my preferred flavor profile even though I'm not too big on custards. It's not too custardy. It has the potential to knock Ground Breaking out of my top spot, but I need to run through a few milliliters before I can make that kind of serious call.
UPDATE: I just wanted to add a couple afterthoughts for the couple of you that may have some interest in this coil building experiment. Everybody else will almost certainly be bored by this, so you should probably just skip it.
I was using an 1/8th inch by 3 inch toggle bolt to wrap on and, because it was so long, it was reasonably easy to hold onto while wrapping. I think part of the wicking problem with this soft nickel wire was due in part to the small inside diameter of the coil.
The 1/8th inch is measured from the outside to the outside peaks of the threads and the wire sat down in the valleys. I'm guessing the inside diameter of my coil couldn't have been much more than a 1/16th of an inch. It could be as large as something just under 2 mm I suppose *shrugs*, which would probably work fine with stiffer wire like a 28 AWG Kanthal, but for a first timer trying to thread wicking material through the much softer and smaller gauge (30 AWG) wire with such a small inside coil diameter, without a feel for the amount of tension it would create, the endeavor to maintain the even spacing of the wraps was doomed from the start. I'm just happy to have nailed the ohms on my first try. Beginners luck, no doubt.
Anyway, on my next attempt, I plan on using a 3/16th X 4 inch toggle bolt and if it works as hoped I might just make a handle for it. I'm guessing that will give me something just over a 3 mm inside diameter which might let me get away with 8 wraps for a 0.2 ohm coil. That might also have the advantage of being a little easier to fit between the posts on this smallish RBA deck. Thoughts?
Wow! Just wow! Crème de la Vie is a magnificent rich and creamy juice. Right in the zone of my preferred flavor profile even though I'm not too big on custards. It's not too custardy. It has the potential to knock Ground Breaking out of my top spot, but I need to run through a few milliliters before I can make that kind of serious call.
UPDATE: I just wanted to add a couple afterthoughts for the couple of you that may have some interest in this coil building experiment. Everybody else will almost certainly be bored by this, so you should probably just skip it.
I was using an 1/8th inch by 3 inch toggle bolt to wrap on and, because it was so long, it was reasonably easy to hold onto while wrapping. I think part of the wicking problem with this soft nickel wire was due in part to the small inside diameter of the coil.
The 1/8th inch is measured from the outside to the outside peaks of the threads and the wire sat down in the valleys. I'm guessing the inside diameter of my coil couldn't have been much more than a 1/16th of an inch. It could be as large as something just under 2 mm I suppose *shrugs*, which would probably work fine with stiffer wire like a 28 AWG Kanthal, but for a first timer trying to thread wicking material through the much softer and smaller gauge (30 AWG) wire with such a small inside coil diameter, without a feel for the amount of tension it would create, the endeavor to maintain the even spacing of the wraps was doomed from the start. I'm just happy to have nailed the ohms on my first try. Beginners luck, no doubt.
Anyway, on my next attempt, I plan on using a 3/16th X 4 inch toggle bolt and if it works as hoped I might just make a handle for it. I'm guessing that will give me something just over a 3 mm inside diameter which might let me get away with 8 wraps for a 0.2 ohm coil. That might also have the advantage of being a little easier to fit between the posts on this smallish RBA deck. Thoughts?
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I've been to a home that had a wall that looked just like that.. 
Well not sure if I'm going to get a new mid for my birthday... bc I got an x box 360 and some games this weekend. Its not the newest tech but is new to me.. I'm loving it!
Morning Cowboy....I got MY NUMBERS!!!!!!!
Yeah since I'm piffing I let you have them
The iStick 50 watts came in so I loaded up the Subtank Nano with California Dream, for my wife, of course, and she tells me it's delicious. Next, I'm filling up the Atlantis with Vortex. I think I'm...I mean my wife is really going to like it too, especially after watching Meka's review of it.
UPDATE: The Vortex tastes great, but the smell that lingers afterward from the honey is exactly as I have read so many other people complain about with honey flavored vapes...cat urine. I love the way it tastes, but this might be a strictly outdoor vape. I'm secretly laughing my rear off as I hear my wife in the other room going on about "Yuck! What is that smell? I can't figure out where that smell is coming from."
My wife does the same thing if I have anything with passion fruit. We have a cat so she runs around whatever room I am in sniffing anything the cat could have peed on, which the cat hasn't peed on anything in years *knocks on wood*
My son I'm so proud vapes stuff that smells like cat urine. That's gotta be a first. 
Okay, update #2. My nickel coil build on the RBA isn't wicking properly at all. Total fail! This whole wicking thing is obviously trickier than I had anticipated...at least with nickel coils. The good news is my temperature sensing mod will be here today. The bad news is that my temperature sensing mod that is going to be here today might be junk for temperature sensing. Oh well, that was part of the calculation.
The good news is that, for under $60, it still looks like a pretty decent mod in regular variable mode or mechanical mode. We'll see later today.
The good news is that, for under $60, it still looks like a pretty decent mod in regular variable mode or mechanical mode. We'll see later today.
I MADE IT A YEAR!!!!! 
...even with Cowboy around......I've not even had a craving for a stinkie!!!!!
...even with Cowboy around......I've not even had a craving for a stinkie!!!!!
That sad moment when you walk out your front door to realize you missed a package delivery from DHL and they won't redeliver until Monday.
That package was shipped on the 18th in Poland and made it to my door on the 20th. DHL is so much faster than USPS, lol.
I signed for this package online, plus left the signed slip on my door just incase, and DHL didn't show up today.
Agreed!! The ONLY thing worse than being teased is the damn pink-slip saying "Ya ALMOST had it....."
***props feet on my desk and folds hands behind my head***Agreed!! The ONLY thing worse than being teased is the damn pink-slip saying "Ya ALMOST had it....."
Since when do you not like being teased?
:lol
***props feet on my desk and folds hands behind my head***
Since when do you not like being teased?
OH, feet up on the desk!?!?!? PICS PICS!!!
A "pink slip" from you....wait....I'd better not finish that....
I MADE IT A YEAR!!!!!
...even with Cowboy around......I've not even had a craving for a stinkie!!!!!
The path we took is a much tastier, much less stinky path. It makes it easier to stay on the path, and has made many of us less social pariahs. Congrats buddy... im almost there myself.
***props feet on my desk and folds hands behind my head***
Since when do you not like being teased?
tease me, tease me.. but dont forget to please me!
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