I'm still working on my 100 ft spools I bought back in 2013 with seemingly no end in sight. Same with my cotton. Basically a lifetime supply for not all that much money
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Good calipers help. reality is there aren't a ton of different hex grub screws on the market that vape companies like to use. You'll see 3mmX4mm, 3X3, and some other small ones. Some are flat base, some rounded, some indented (those are the worst as they cut your wire way too easily. There are actual engineering words for that, but I just describe them that way. If you have Philips head or plain screws you'll have to measure, but they can be found.
O-rings are harder as those sizes really vary and something like a KF4 can have what seems like a hundred different o rings (really about a dozen but it felt like a lot more, glad I don't vape mtl anymore). Again, quality digital calipers are the best thing to buy and not super expensive at all on Amazon.
Steamengine does a pretty good job. When you twist tightly, you end up with more length of the original wire in there than you think, so the divisor is a bit less than 3 for a 3x twist. For me, a 3x twist comes out at about four wire gauges down, so a 3x32 has about the same resistance as a single 28.
Try and find an atomizer you like with set screw coil mounting. You can buy a bag of pre-wound coils and just stick the leads through the holes. Move the coil into position, tighten them with a Torx bit, and you're ready to go. It's easier than it sounds.
I've been doing that for Years. I probably have 7 or 8 Hundred Coils in Both SS and NiChrome 80.
https://www.fasttech.com/p/4035001
Now so much because of My Fine Motor Skills. More because I am Lazy. LOL
Why so many? The last time I installed a new coil in the atty on my ADV mod was on August 30th, 2018. That's over one year ago now. Since then, it has had been cleaned and re-wicked with rayon seven times. The last time I did that (July 7th, 2019) I did note that the coil was looking "a bit rough" in my maintenance log and I'm planning to replace it the next time. I was thinking I'd do that right after I got to one full year, but I haven't felt it to be Necessary yet.
That part, yes. It's wicking that takes some practice and judgement. It's not impossible, but every tank has their own quirks (RDAs are so much easier), but once you get a feel for it there is no cheaper way to keep a tank vaping well.
Ya know when you are in the Check Out at the grocery store. And they have all the Gum and Mints in Cool Containers sitting there. And you Toss one into your Stuff more because it is there, than because you are big time Gum Chewer or Mint sucker.
That's kinda what I would do at FT.
Every Time I would do an FT Order, I'd throw a 50 Pack of Coils in with my Order. Sometimes it was because I Needed a Buck or 3 to get over the Free Shipping Limit. Sometimes it was just out of Habit.
I like that Fresh, New Coil Taste. And if I am going to Re-Wick, which I do about Once a Week, it really Doesn't take much longer to Re-Coil with a Pre-Made Coil.
I really Didn't realize How Many Coils I had acquired over the Years. Until one Day, in a weak Moment, I decided to Organize all my Vape Stuff.
I had Tons of those Little Plastic Containers.
LOL
I have heard vague rumors that one can buy O-rings and screws from like hardware stores.
Based on my dealings with hardware stores is like, most of the workers are very, very eager to help you. I would imagine the best way (for me) would be to bring my dilapidated atomizer that needs screws or O-rings to the nearest employee and ask them to hook me up. I am entirely confident they will.
I am also entirely confident that I will never run out of O-rings. I mean... I have NOT replaced that many maybe like 6 in my 3 years of vaping?
While I do not know, since I have never run out of O rings, I have also heard vague rumors that "close is enough to count" with many an O ring and for some reason Fasttch seems to think that you get better value on a clone if you get 40 O-rings with your purchase of a clone. I'm not complaining. I've considered using them as hair ties, but sanity prevailed. Simply because an O ring pony tail probably wouldn't look that great.
Anna
Based on my dealings with hardware stores is like, most of the workers are very, very eager to help you. I would imagine the best way (for me) would be to bring my dilapidated atomizer that needs screws or O-rings to the nearest employee and ask them to hook me up. I am entirely confident they will.
I am also entirely confident that I will never run out of O-rings. I mean... I have NOT replaced that many maybe like 6 in my 3 years of vaping?
While I do not know, since I have never run out of O rings, I have also heard vague rumors that "close is enough to count" with many an O ring and for some reason Fasttch seems to think that you get better value on a clone if you get 40 O-rings with your purchase of a clone. I'm not complaining. I've considered using them as hair ties, but sanity prevailed. Simply because an O ring pony tail probably wouldn't look that great.
Anna
BTW - Since I go thru a Coil in about a Week. 50 Coils is about a Year's Supply. So 500 Coils is about 10 Year Supply.
500 Coils sounds like a Lot. But if I have a 20 Year Supply of Nicotine, why wouldn't I have At Least a 10 Year Supply of Coils?
I mean, it's Not like there Isn't Room in that Hole in the Dessert for them.
Well, I am not close to the desert but I do live on over 4 acres and already have holes the critters dug. 
Not unless you want to put something critter repellent in your holes, the critters dig and return and they would chew your vape gear because that is what critters do.
Look, I'm not BURYING anything. If it comes to that, I will just... IDK, wander in the wilderness talking to burning bushes and like telling God, my true parent that he sucks.
BTW, ALL my smoke alarms are dying, pretty much in a sequential order, kind of as if they were all installed one after another, which like, IDK.
I could get some batteries and put them back up. But, I'm gone most of the day so if a fire starts, they're worthless to me. In the evening, I would smell it. Asleep, a fire alarm has ZERO chance of waking me up. I mean, I felt ASLEEP to one chirping last night because I could not figure out which one it WAS.
I may leave this task for the husband. I mean, he's the one that wakes up to fire alarms. It seems like a dismal waste of a perfectly good 9V battery to me.
Anna
Look, I'm not BURYING anything. If it comes to that, I will just... IDK, wander in the wilderness talking to burning bushes and like telling God, my true parent that he sucks.
BTW, ALL my smoke alarms are dying, pretty much in a sequential order, kind of as if they were all installed one after another, which like, IDK.
I could get some batteries and put them back up. But, I'm gone most of the day so if a fire starts, they're worthless to me. In the evening, I would smell it. Asleep, a fire alarm has ZERO chance of waking me up. I mean, I felt ASLEEP to one chirping last night because I could not figure out which one it WAS.
I may leave this task for the husband. I mean, he's the one that wakes up to fire alarms. It seems like a dismal waste of a perfectly good 9V battery to me.
Anna
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Confession: In my darker moods, I envision a kind of Catch-22/Gift of the Magi mashup in which, by the time I can't build and so must use drop-in coils, all my regulated mods will have died, so I'm left with mechs.
One more question what am I measuring? ie when it says 3mm x 4mm which number is diameter and which is length and does the length include the screw head or not? Sorry I am ignorant on this stuff. Just an old lady vaper trying to sort this all out.
Don't think length includes the screw head. But I remember when I was ordering from McMaster Carr there was a diagram showing all the measurements and what they referred to. Plus I went to Ace Hardware and bought a selection of their smallest screws to use for getting the screw diameter. I measured the length just by holding a screw I wanted to get more of against a metal ruler.
Yup. Mcmaster Carr is very helpful at walking you through trying to figure it all out. Length is fine that way. Diameter is tricky. I've found that 3 mm seems about average for grub screws I've run across, but as always, that's no guarantee. If you get close but are not sure, there's nothing wrong with ordering a size up and down too. They're very cheap and if it doesn't fit one it might work for another. McMaster-Carr
they also have an app if you prefer ordering from your phone.
Edit, I didn't mean diameter of 3, sorry, diameter is usually 1.5 or 2 mm, referred to as M3 or M4 by metric measuring of these things. Here's some screenshots of types of set screws (I prefer the nonmarring rather than cutting type) and you'll see a bag of 25 is about $3.50
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