I did it!!

[Anise]

Ok so I used a premade coil but still! I managed to coil and wick a limitless rta. I also wicked a tfv4 mini! To be honest I could only get one coil on the limitless but it works. Thank y'all so much for all advice. I thought this was beyond me but now I have hope of double and maybe more builds in the future!

 

[Zaryk]

Congratulations! The first build is always the hardest, so I'm glad to hear you got over that hump.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Ok so I used a premade coil but still! I managed to coil and wick a limitless rta. I also wicked a tfv4 mini! To be honest I could only get one coil on the limitless but it works. Thank y'all so much for all advice. I thought this was beyond me but now I have hope of double and maybe more builds in the future!

Nothing wrong with using a premade coil. I use them all the time.

 

[Anise]

Nothing wrong with using a premade coil. I use them all the time.

Thanks for saying that. I felt like I hadn't fully accomplished this since I didn't make my own coil. I tried but my attempt was laughable and unusable.

 

[r77r7r]

How is the vape different from a factory coil?

 

[Anise]

The flavor just pops out at me! And I'll end up saving money not having to buy drop in coils.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Thanks for saying that. I felt like I hadn't fully accomplished this since I didn't make my own coil. I tried but my attempt was laughable and unusable.

You should have seen some of mine. I did learn tho it doesn't have to look pretty to work correctly.

But I vastly prefer premade. My hands don't always want to cooperate so I just stopped fighting it.

I get most of my premade coils at Fasttech. They are so inexpensive its silly not to buy them.

 

[Zaryk]

Thanks for saying that. I felt like I hadn't fully accomplished this since I didn't make my own coil. I tried but my attempt was laughable and unusable.

That reminds me of a pic I saw recently.

 

[stols001]

Congrats @Anise! LOL, it's all downhill from here. OH how vividly I remember my first build, LOL I don't learn that type of stuff gracefully. So, you used a prebuilt coil. Still AWESOME .I find building coils easier than installing them actually so congrats! You'll just keep gaining confidence as you go, you'll see.

But, congrats, well done, felizidad etc!

Anna

 

[zoiDman]

Way to Go Anise !!!

I think you'll find that your 2nd Build takes a lot Less Time and Effort than your 1st. And after about a Month, you will be Cranking Out Builds like it is No Big Deal.

 

[zoiDman]

Way to Go Anise !!!

I think you'll find that your 2nd Build takes a lot Less Time and Effort than your 1st. And after about a Month, you will be Cranking Out Builds like it is No Big Deal.

BTW - Something that made Building a lot Easier for Me when I started was to keep all my Building Tools/Stuff in one place.

I use a Big Cigar Box.

It's Nice when you go to do a Build to just pull out the Build Box and Everything you need is Inside of it. Verses spending 5 minutes looking for the Wire Cutters that I think I left on the Desk. And that Pair of Tweezers that were last seen in one of the Bathroom Drawers. And God only knows where that Nice pair of Scissors are that worked so well to cut Cotton.

 

[AngeNZ]

Congrats @Anise

its such a cool feeling using an RTA you have built yourself

I did my first build on an RTA last week and it went perfect. Decided to try again and it was a complete fail Tried again (aiming for a spaced coil this time) and it went flawlessly.

It was actually a really good learning curve, and a great way of figuring out what not to do - and what works.

There's no rush in wrapping your own coil - getting the coil on the deck, securing it, wicking, and then having it register correctly - plus not leaking are the main things.

I have a coiljig winder - but found wrapping the coil on the jig myself (used ss316 28 gauge) was better. Compared to the rest of the build - that was the easy bit

 

[Letitia]

Congratulations!

 

[Anise]

BTW - Something that made Building a lot Easier for Me when I started was to keep all my Building Tools/Stuff in one place.

I use a Big Cigar Box.

It's Nice when you go to do a Build to just pull out the Build Box and Everything you need is Inside of it. Verses spending 5 minutes looking for the Wire Cutters that I think I left on the Desk. And that Pair of Tweezers that were last seen in one of the Bathroom Drawers. And God only knows where that Nice pair of Scissors are that worked so well to cut Cotton.

Thanks y'all!
I have a box for my tools and another box has prebuilt coils , cotton and another box holds my rbas, rtas and rdas and any other r. I'm usually very disorganized and lose everything. I was determined to be organized this time.

 

[DancingHeretik]

I have a box for my tools and another box has prebuilt coils , cotton and another box holds my rbas and rdas. I'm usually very disorganized and lose everything. I was determined to be organized this time.

I'm kinda organized too. But, I need to work on it. It's just a little off.

 

[Anise]

Oooops busted. You caught my edit lol. Sorry it just struck me as funny

 

[Mr. Relentless]

Just don't get discouraged. RTA,s can be temperamental. I had one that kept leaking for no reason and I couldn't figure it out. Ended up being elevation change commuting from 4200 feet to 200 feet.

 

[DeloresRose]

Congrats! I just did my first build a couple weeks ago, never looking back! And I too thank everyone on the forum, whether they know it or not, their advice is the only reason I even attempted it.

How is the vape different from a factory coil?

The flavor, number one. The cost, number two. The Prime is faster, and there’s no guessing is it ready or will I burn that coil? Plus, if you want to change flavors, you’re only out a wad of cotton.

There is a bit of a learning curve with each rta, and I find I need to change out the cotton more frequently than a drop in coil, but the coils themselves last a lot longer. How long? Can’t say, I haven’t had to change any out yet.

But it’s great for me with my super sweet funky coil gunking juices.

 

[Asbestos4004]

You'll be selling framed, stapled aliens on eBay inside of a month....

 

[r77r7r]

Congrats! I just did my first build a couple weeks ago, never looking back! And I too thank everyone on the forum, whether they know it or not, their advice is the only reason I even attempted it.




The flavor, number one. The cost, number two. The Prime is faster, and there’s no guessing is it ready or will I burn that coil? Plus, if you want to change flavors, you’re only out a wad of cotton.

There is a bit of a learning curve with each rta, and I find I need to change out the cotton more frequently than a drop in coil, but the coils themselves last a lot longer. How long? Can’t say, I haven’t had to change any out yet.

But it’s great for me with my super sweet funky coil gunking juices.

Tx for your response. I know I wasn't being too specific.

I kinda meant just the vape in general. Like, during the course of a factory coils life it changes somewhat. I don't know how or why that happens. One day I'm like "wow, I should change this coil soon", a few hours later "wow, awesome vape!", lol.

I'm an unflavored user tho so maybe my focus is different. I imagine the typical vaper is just focused on flavor output whereas it's very noticeable to me when the vape is drier or wetter or whatever the heck it goes thru, lol.