Make you'r own kanthal ribbon

[GaLacTic]

i had seen a youtube video of a guy with a heavy Jersy accent can't remember his name taking two pices of wire and twisting them togther. so this stems from there.. i took 3 pices of 32g kanthal cut to size then twisted them on a drill real tight but not to tight don't break them... then i took a square piece of flat clean metal, put the kanthal on top then grabed a hammer and another small flat piece of metal to sandwich it. i started to give small taps about 10-15 or so then took a look nice and flat i gave it a burn over the stove before i made a coil.. i wish a had some ribbon to comape the both but to me its working and tasting a bit better.. anyway thought i would share my ribbon on a bugget i will try to upload some pics..

 

[GaLacTic]

pick hope it works

 

[GaLacTic]

it worked here is aonther of it coiled

 

[GaLacTic]

last one

 

[HzG8rGrl]

Do be careful, if the wire isn't the same thickness all the way through then your resistance isn't either.

 

[GaLacTic]

That explains my ohms jumping a bit lol.. im thinking some 26g single wire might be more stable.. u will play with it some more..

 

[pdib]

Very cool idea! I was flattening single strands of 26 and 28. It seemed to raise the resistance, which makes sense, since I was making it thinner. Three strands oughta provide plenty low ohms.

 

[Cjax]

Very cool idea! I was flattening single strands of 26 and 28. It seemed to raise the resistance, which makes sense, since I was making it thinner. Three strands oughta provide plenty low ohms.

Yeah, hinted to my question. What was the resistance comparison flattening it out like that?

 

[GaLacTic]

I'm for the most part getting 1 - 1.3 ohms with the 3 strands of 32g smashed I do wish I had something to make it more even of a smash . 32g with 2 strands twisted gives me 0.9 2/³ wraps..