I just came up with this a couple of days ago and now its the only way I build. It wastes a little bit of wire so make sure you use more than you need. It's cheap enough when you buy 100 ft. spools from Temco on ebay.
You can use a drill bit or a small screw drive or whatever you want for your desired coil size that wont get damaged by tightening it down in the drill chuck. My drill has a three jaw chuck and the trick is to make sure you place the end of the kanthal against the center of one of the jaws so it will be held tight against the drill bit. I try to insert about 1/2" of wire into the chuck before tightening it down. Hold the other end of the wire with pliers and pull it pretty tight as you start to wind the coil. The tighter the better but thinner wire will break so you cant keep as much tension on it.
In this video I'm using a 3/32" drill bit with 28 gauge kanthal for my fogger and orchid dual coil builds. I unwind some of the wraps from the bent end that was in the chuck to get it down to 12 total wraps for 2.2 ohms which brings it to 1.1 in my dual coil setups running from 17 to 20 watts. After I get it to the right size I torch it to burn off anything left from the manufacturing process.
Hope this helps somebody out there!
(sorry about the constant focusing of the camera)
You can use a drill bit or a small screw drive or whatever you want for your desired coil size that wont get damaged by tightening it down in the drill chuck. My drill has a three jaw chuck and the trick is to make sure you place the end of the kanthal against the center of one of the jaws so it will be held tight against the drill bit. I try to insert about 1/2" of wire into the chuck before tightening it down. Hold the other end of the wire with pliers and pull it pretty tight as you start to wind the coil. The tighter the better but thinner wire will break so you cant keep as much tension on it.
In this video I'm using a 3/32" drill bit with 28 gauge kanthal for my fogger and orchid dual coil builds. I unwind some of the wraps from the bent end that was in the chuck to get it down to 12 total wraps for 2.2 ohms which brings it to 1.1 in my dual coil setups running from 17 to 20 watts. After I get it to the right size I torch it to burn off anything left from the manufacturing process.
Hope this helps somebody out there!
(sorry about the constant focusing of the camera)
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