I've got a pair of these. Have had them for years but use toe nail CUTTERS for my coils instead. No real reason other than being to lazy to look for the flush trimmers. LOL!
Scissors for cutting cotton.
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Is it just me that thinks cutting kanthal with scissors is a stupid idea?
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I've got a pair of these. Have had them for years but use toe nail CUTTERS for my coils instead. No real reason other than being to lazy to look for the flush trimmers. LOL!
Scissors for cutting cotton.
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Kanthal is pretty soft stuff. I suppose if your scissors are made out of steel that hasn't been hardened, it might ding them up. I never really thought about it. I've nipped legs off with my utility shears, a little wire cutter, my leatherman, my pocket knife, and a nail clipper. The only thing among those that wasn't completely appropriate was the el-cheapo nail clipper.... but then, I really didn't care if I damaged the el-cheapo nail clipper so maybe it was.
It could be the new culture of everything being disposable that gives you pause using scissors. If you think you have to get new ones if they dull or get dinged up, that would be a good reason to want to make sure they don't. Or maybe I'm spoiled. I have whet stones, ceramic rods, belt sanders, diamond stones, and strops. My edged tools never have to go without maintenance.
It could be the new culture of everything being disposable that gives you pause using scissors. If you think you have to get new ones if they dull or get dinged up, that would be a good reason to want to make sure they don't. Or maybe I'm spoiled. I have whet stones, ceramic rods, belt sanders, diamond stones, and strops. My edged tools never have to go without maintenance.
Yes because builds always vape better when quality tools are used
This thread is funny.
I might be a bit serious on using the right tool but, to me anyways, the point is that if you understand the idea of quality on mods, you should also get the point of quality on tools.. at least in due time...
If I really was .... about it I'd say you can only use 60$ wire cutters to cut wire of any gauge. What I DID mention is I don't understand using scissors, gouging them, and then fiddling around because you had the wrong tool for the job. Use whatever you want, I just am way past the point of understanding destroying cheap tools and then being stuck fiddling around because your tool is destroyed and having to buy another one. I have no qualm with toe nail clippers if it works for you, I just happen to have the exact right tool in my chest of treasures
And, paper towels or toilet paper are disposables, not tools... so long as they pick up what they need to and don't make me chase dingle berries, I don't care what brand they are. I hate dingle berries with a passion! There, I said it
Yes because builds always vape better when quality tools are used
This thread is funny.
how so? who said it improves the vape quality? using the right tools is more about safety. for example you might be one of the 'fold the legs up and cut with scissors kinda guy" and one day you could bump the leg down somehow and it might touch the other coil (if your using duals) causing a short.
thought this reason to use the right would tools would be common sense. but i guess you didnt think about it eh.
better to be safe than sorry, right?
We'll all sleep better knowing you have great wire cutters. I wasn't giving anyone a hard time about having good tools. I have good tools. It just never dawned on me to start a thread pointing out how stupid it is to use anything else while gazing at my beautiful cutters.
I was told real men use their teeth. Looking at this thread though, I wondering if they lied. Being a woman, I use my dog's baby nail clippers we used on him when he was a puppy. They work and why waste money on something new when I can invest it in Japanese cotton?
I never called anyone stupid and never intended to and I didn't start the thread, but I do like the general idea of venting a little personal feelings about how I do not understand using the right tool, or at least one that can get the job done without damaging itself. I'm a tech and a gear head, so tools are one of my fixations. Let's just hug and fall asleep admiring the cutters I stole from an employer 15 years ago
I respect that not everyone has the passion to get specialized tools for a small job, but to me a job that will need repeating is worth saving trouble with the tool that will save that trouble and the trouble of replacing it sooner rather than later (something along the not so confusing lines of "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.".. erm.. oops!)
I just don't know how to make this sound simple, so forgive my gear head and let's get drunk to forget what we wanted to forget
We all need venting at some point and finding others that have the same pet peeve feels good without the booze, so please forgive us for being what we are
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I might be a bit serious on using the right tool but, to me anyways, the point is that if you understand the idea of quality on mods, you should also get the point of quality on tools.. at least in due time...
If I really was .... about it I'd say you can only use 60$ wire cutters to cut wire of any gauge. What I DID mention is I don't understand using scissors, gouging them, and then fiddling around because you had the wrong tool for the job. Use whatever you want, I just am way past the point of understanding destroying cheap tools and then being stuck fiddling around because your tool is destroyed and having to buy another one. I have no qualm with toe nail clippers if it works for you, I just happen to have the exact right tool in my chest of treasures
And, paper towels or toilet paper are disposables, not tools... so long as they pick up what they need to and don't make me chase dingle berries, I don't care what brand they are. I hate dingle berries with a passion! There, I said it
I'm this way about rose pruners -- you cannot properly cut rose canes with bypass pruners, I don't care how many different kinds they have at Walmart and Home Depot, from cheapie to costly -- if you care about roses, you use anvil pruners; yeah they cost a bit more and you have to go to a hardware store to find them, but they don't mangle the rose canes.
But I'm terribly persnickety about roses in general -- you don't cut them or handle them at all when they're wet, either.
Andria
But seriously, OP I am with you on the scissors part but only because scissors are not meant to cut wire and you dull them. I also hate sharpening, so .meh...
I hope you are not trimming off the excess wire after you attach the RBA to your mod. I usually do that while it is on the ohm reader and flick the excess wire a few times to see if the ohms jump. If they do, I tighten the screws a bit more. After that is all set, I can pulse and pinch to even out the coil and for that.....wait for it.....remember I am a tool freak....I use ceramic tweezers so I don't cause an arc.
Everyone has their own way. As long as you are safe about it, everything works.
Some of us are fastidious, some are sloppy. Some use anything they have handy and others have specific tools they like to use.
Me, I have a build kit and when I want to build it is all there.
I hope you are not trimming off the excess wire after you attach the RBA to your mod. I usually do that while it is on the ohm reader and flick the excess wire a few times to see if the ohms jump. If they do, I tighten the screws a bit more. After that is all set, I can pulse and pinch to even out the coil and for that.....wait for it.....remember I am a tool freak....I use ceramic tweezers so I don't cause an arc.
Everyone has their own way. As long as you are safe about it, everything works.
Some of us are fastidious, some are sloppy. Some use anything they have handy and others have specific tools they like to use.
Me, I have a build kit and when I want to build it is all there.
I'm in. I was taught to "always use the right tool for the job". And also that a craftsman is judged by how he keeps and cares for his tools. So no, I don't use scissors to cut wire.
Yesterday caught my sister-in-law using one of my kitchen knives to open a box, grrrr... Quickly handed her a pocket knife instead. Come to think of it that pocket knife was from my grandfather -- over a hundred years of use and still going strong.
Yesterday caught my sister-in-law using one of my kitchen knives to open a box, grrrr... Quickly handed her a pocket knife instead. Come to think of it that pocket knife was from my grandfather -- over a hundred years of use and still going strong.
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I use the scissors from a purchase way back in 1991 at a corvette fest here in Chicago. The guy was slicing tomato's, pineapples etc with ease they were only 29 bucks and lifetime warranty. Who could pass that up..
So in 2004 they were a little dull still useable just not crisp, I called them on their lifetime warranty and they sent out a whole new set with cooking shears.
I still use the the 1st version, I actually haven't opened the new 3rd version of their blades. I learned they could be sharpened back to razor sharp, woot.
If you want some truly great lifelong warranty blades, and shears that will cut chicken, butchers string, cotton wick, ss mesh wick, kanthal, and nichrome with ease lol.
So in 2004 they were a little dull still useable just not crisp, I called them on their lifetime warranty and they sent out a whole new set with cooking shears.
I still use the the 1st version, I actually haven't opened the new 3rd version of their blades. I learned they could be sharpened back to razor sharp, woot.
If you want some truly great lifelong warranty blades, and shears that will cut chicken, butchers string, cotton wick, ss mesh wick, kanthal, and nichrome with ease lol.
I admit it - I used scissors to try and cut Kanthal. There I said it. OP, you are right, it really was a stupid idea because I ruined the scissors to the point where they wouldn't even cut my Japanese cotton squares after that! What a mess! Sadly, I ended up having to throw them away.
Luckily, when I went back to Dollar Tree, they had another pair of replacement scissors to cut my squares with! They even had a nail clipper (to cut my kanthal, yup, I learned my lesson!) in a purple plastic snap case with a nail file, a cuticle pusher (can I wrap coils around that?) and tweezers, too!
That $2 was money well-spent. I have all the proper tools now!
Luckily, when I went back to Dollar Tree, they had another pair of replacement scissors to cut my squares with! They even had a nail clipper (to cut my kanthal, yup, I learned my lesson!) in a purple plastic snap case with a nail file, a cuticle pusher (can I wrap coils around that?) and tweezers, too!
That $2 was money well-spent. I have all the proper tools now!
I have 4 different wire cutters, one for each gauge of wire I might need to cut, all color coded and laser etched with the appropriate gauge. I also have 3 pairs of precision Swiss-made scissors, one for silica, one for cotton, and one for rayon.
OK, I made that up.
I do, however, use a nice little $6 pair of wire cutters, they make me smile. And for cutting wicks: my wife is a stitcher, and she is as fanatic about it as I am of vaping, so she has a zillion pairs of fancy little scissors, very nice, sharp little scissors about two inches long. I raided her scissor stash and stole a pair. Highly recommended for cutting wicks, these little suckers are sharp.
OK, I made that up.
I do, however, use a nice little $6 pair of wire cutters, they make me smile. And for cutting wicks: my wife is a stitcher, and she is as fanatic about it as I am of vaping, so she has a zillion pairs of fancy little scissors, very nice, sharp little scissors about two inches long. I raided her scissor stash and stole a pair. Highly recommended for cutting wicks, these little suckers are sharp.
Dollar Store toenail clippers ... flush cut, sharp edges, cheap to replace, and they fit well into my vape supplies box.
I grabbed the scissors one day to trim the wire on my Kayfun coil and didn't notice that the scissors left a little length on the wire. Provari declared an E1. Had it been a mech, I might have heated up the battery. When I looked down the chimney I could see how little clearance there is from the screw to the chimney barrel.
I grabbed the scissors one day to trim the wire on my Kayfun coil and didn't notice that the scissors left a little length on the wire. Provari declared an E1. Had it been a mech, I might have heated up the battery. When I looked down the chimney I could see how little clearance there is from the screw to the chimney barrel.
I got some ceramic tweezers, when I started building. I'd read a couple of reports where the metal tweezers accidentally hit the coil while it was firing, so naturally it shorted. I wasn't so much concerned about that, as I was with getting a shock -- I really hate electric shocks! And secondarily, with maybe permanently messing up whatever mod was being used. So I got the ceramic ones, so I don't need to worry about them accidentally touching the coil, heck I can even squeeze while it's firing -- though I swiftly learned that if you do that and mess up, you have to start all over, because the loops can't be unfused, if they touch while they're actually firing -- bad news if you squeeze too hard and some of the loops overlap.
Andria
I admit it - I used scissors to try and cut Kanthal. There I said it. OP, you are right, it really was a stupid idea because I ruined the scissors to the point where they wouldn't even cut my Japanese cotton squares after that! What a mess! Sadly, I ended up having to throw them away.
Luckily, when I went back to Dollar Tree, they had another pair of replacement scissors to cut my squares with! They even had a nail clipper (to cut my kanthal, yup, I learned my lesson!) in a purple plastic snap case with a nail file, a cuticle pusher (can I wrap coils around that?) and tweezers, too!
That $2 was money well-spent. I have all the proper tools now!
The cuticle-pusher... a wooden stick with a point at one end and beveled edge at the other? I use those to position the wick on a dripper; my little Igo-S is so small, there's no room for one of the ends to go around the post, so I tuck it under the coil -- with the pointy end of that cuticle stick.
Those pointy ends are also good for popping the rubber caps out of cartos.Andria
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