AwesomeHere was todays project. This vapes awesome. It's an arched clapton. 4x28n80 cores, 36n80 arch. Dual 6 wraps on a twisted messes is like .11Ω Blurry as .... glow shot, I have a hard time with them. Seriously looking at a new camera. Specifically the Samsung NX3000. Any opinions?
Sometimes with long lengths of fused Claptons & thinner gauged fused Claptons if you make a mistake and reverse the drill to fix it, the wires twist clockwise & counterclockwise. What the hell do I do then?!?!?!When you make your fused claptons you can leave it in the drill then grab the end of it with your pliers and take out most of the twist by using the drill
I'm just playin man looks good. Could use a bit more arch though haha
You arched it the wrong way!
Easy, just don't make a mistake to begin with
Haha I know what to do when I wrap my coils i was just in an odd mood last night, I never go past 32g with Arched Claptons because of that reason, it's too hard to get the arch with anything past it without fully collapsing the wire. What you could do is put 30g or 32g inside and try arching it along that & lightly hammering. I wrap my coils super super tight too, I try not to have any slack in them because it kinda changes the inner diameter if it's a loose wrap. And I know how to take my twists out of my fused ClaptonsDamn it, I hoped no one would notice. Oops.
That thing was such a ..... to wrap and mount. I noticed after the first coil was mounted and said the heck with it. The 36 arches were hard to work with... really hard. Could hardy touch the decored clapton with a pliers without collapsing it.
As far as taking twists out of fused claptons by reversing the drill, I don't do it. I found it to loosen the outer wrap. I ALWAYS use 2x nylon jaw pliers to remove the twists. Remember, it doesn't have to be 100% perfect. When you go to wrap multi core claptons, the wires want to lay straight by themselves, and any small twists will lay flat by themselves when you wrap it tightly.
I may be a minority here, but everything I wrap is super tight. Like really really tight. I seen in some recent posts about how some of you guys just "slide your wraps together" when they get spaced and I'm like
I can't do that with anything I wrap. I wrap my aliens so tight I doubt I could decore them. I also don't stretch my decored alien much at all and let it stretch as it's wrapping. Looks so much cleaner that way. You can't tell my 36g aliens are aliens from a foot away.
Easy, just don't make a mistake to begin with
In all seriousness, I always fuse with swivels, so If i overlap a little, the tension I'm pulling on the core allows me to reverse as much as I like without any issues.
Just a fun tidbit, I always fuse right off the spool, holding the spool right on my belt usually, about 2 feet away from the counter that I have my vice/drill on... I find it a lot easier to fuse perfect and at full speed at that angle. I also wrap aliens like that, holding the decored clapton about 2 feet from where the wrap is happening.... Whatever works, works. Right?
Any alien 36g & up I stretch to about 5 feet and I let the cores do the rest of the work. When the wire is that thin, it fits itself along the core wire after I do the first few wraps by hand
Pics...what gauge did you try to alien it around? Can't help if we don't see what's going wrong for ya.
Yeah it's really hard to decore an alien once you start wrapping it, the grooves in the decored Clapton kinda latch onto the side wires and the middle is fixed in place by them. The one time I did decore an alien (3x24 core 30g wrap), I pulled the middle wire out with one set of pliers while holding onto the other 2 wires with another set of pliers. But if you're talking about decoring a Clapton, all you have to do is stick the other end of the core into the chuck, clip the end that was in the chuck so it's straight (don't clip the Clapton lead) and spin your drill while holding the core as if you were straightening wire. Give it a 5 second full speed spin and pull on the core, it'll stretch it out a bit, and then with your fingers grab the end of the Clapton that's closest to the chuck and just guide it off.
Great looking wraps. Looks like one of your core wires "unflattened."
? Nah that's just a twist I got while making it, like a twist in a fused Clapton, but everything's legit. Once I wrap them they'll be flush and good. I'm just sick of aliens, I made 8x foot long segments of 26/32 & 5 more of 26/34 to sell tomorrow. $15 a pair, and I usually get 3 coils off 12". I'm really sick of aliens right now, and building in general so I'm probably gonna take a few days off, but when my monster v2 tank comes in I'm gonna need something to build for it..something thin gauge.
LOL...I'm sick of em too...and I haven't even wrapped one yet lol...
Post a pic of one of your failiens and we can help you and let you know what to change so you can get it down right
If you're using an iPhone or android edit program, what i usually do is drop the highlights about half way and raise the shadows until you can see most if not all parts of the coil/wireAh Tom i was talking of the 3 internal wires, it is why i am able to slightly move some of the alien wraps.
Anyway's i been doing some other build's but i took the pics to an edit program and i dont like the way they came out but i'll post them anyway, i think it made them to dark & a little blurry but it is what it is and i deleted the original's ...
And this was a test run at the slentre braid but the ribbon skewed on me as i tightened the vice but i went with it just to get the braid under my belt...
