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[Superfecta_]

My name is Noah, and I'm an rda addict. Phenotype-L is available on twistedmesses.com for anyone looking to scoop one up. Black one on the way to me along with some 42/44n80

 

[Housetek]

Last build for the night with flattening Clapton wire. 24g Core/28g clapton Spun flat with a drill and sanded with high grit sand paper, 4 cycles in a ultrasonic cleaner.

 

[Deap]

About an hour and half dedicated to this single coil build. Such dense dense dense vapor. Perfect for tricks and o's. 24g n80 claptoned with 28g n80 then flattened and mirror polished with sandpaper. Paralleled with 24g n80 flattened and polished. Sitting at . 1 ohms.
DISCLAIMER: do not attempt to do mirror builds with out a ultrasonic cleaner there is a lot of metal shavings that come off while making this build.

This build is inspired by blueeyedgoons build

Where do you have access to an ultrasonic cleaner?

 

[yuseffuhler]

Where do you have access to an ultrasonic cleaner?

Not the poster, but ultrasonic cleaners are pretty damn cheap. You can get them off of Amazon. Most of the one I've seen are made for jewelery cleaning, but they work great for vaping stuff.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

i have GT Sonic UC that can be set for 99m 99sec's, when you say a cycle Housetek are you doing 5mins?


Okay so i finally got around to doing this arched clapton
3x 26 n80, 30g A1, 0.08ohms, not a bad vape but felt like a lot of work for what it is...


i only flattened one side of the wire on the jewellers block and one coil is with the beat side out and one with it in, thats why they look a little dif

 

[Housetek]

Where do you have access to an ultrasonic cleaner?

They're like 25 bucks off amazon, They are great for cleaning coils, attys, wire, steeping juice, my syringes, and all sorts of things. Worth every penny.

 

[Tom Forde]

You don't need an ultrasonic cleaner to polish wire, I spent yesterday polishing & mirroring some 18g, 20g, twisted 22g, etc. You only really need soap and water. What I do is I grab a 5/32 drill bit, wrap the wire around it, and polish it on that, then wash the coils/wire with a sponge, dish soap and water. They come out super super shiny. You can also throw them in the dishwasher if you have something to contain them so they won't get lost in there.

 

[Johntodd]

I must have missed something. Why polish the wires?

 

[Tom Forde]

I must have missed something. Why polish the wires?

Because they look cool...and because why not? It's more sanding them down so they're flat & polishing with high grit sand paper. I can't do super shiny mirrors because the highest grit I have in my house is 600A right now, but I'm going to get higher.

 

[Retro138]

I grabbed a ultrasonic from Walmart for $25 that has 1 huge dish I it that I fill with with bottled water. Can fit 7" pieces of wire and multiple attys as well as juice syringes and other DIY stuff.

Similar to attys that use tap oil, and that will not come off with just soap and water some people like to use isopropyl alcohol / vodka on their attys and polished wire to insure everything is off and than put into ultrasonic. It's just insurance that whatever is being cleaned is 100% sterile.

 

[Tom Forde]

So I caved in and got a black & gold TM atty. Got a good deal on it locally so I said screw it why not?

Concept wire I made a while back. It consists of a 24/30g decored alien wrap stretched out and on the bottom a 2x 28g fused Clapton with 2x 32g N80 sutured to 26g with 38g. Yeah I know it's a lot but it vapes great and has pretty much no ramp time. Gonna get a Kennedy 24 in a couple days also

 

[Johntodd]

Dayam!

 

[Darkly spectr]

The flavor is absolutely incredible. Especially from stitched aliens. The vape (single battery mech) has a long ramp time for me though with a 2 strand 26g core with 32g N60 wrap & 36g stitch, so I paralleled it with a single strand of 24g N80. Fixed the ramp time and still get incredible flavor. Normal 3 core aliens with 26/34&up barely have ramp time if at all, and the flavor is amazing. They're great coils.
And slip I lick my ribbons too to get them to stick together, also use a bit of tape at the end, and wrap a piece of scrap 40g spaced out around the middle so I can slide it down and take it off when as I move farther down the wire
@Darkly spectr is that a DNA 200 mod? If so which one? And how do you like the chip?
@Deap vertical ribbon! SSFC's are just annoying to build to me, but looks great for a first attempt. Try wrapping the ribbon vertically on your next shot at it

I have to build for a kanger subox for a buddy of my friend's today, and I have to make the coil a minimum of .3 ohms. I'm thinking 30g Twisted Clapton helix? Or 30/40 fused Clapton.
Problem is I don't have a subtank to test the build on and it has to be a minimum of .3 ohms. Any quick suggestions before I leave for the Jets season opener?
Edit: and Retro, send it back and tell TM you ordered the gold/black atty...I think it looks better than the 13/9 atty. always go with your first choice, don't pull the plug! The gold/black TM atty comes in a black box, not a navy one like the regular atty

@Tom Forde

Yes that is a DNA 200 mod. It's called "the giganto brick". it's made by me . Loving the DNA 200 but mostly using it in stock power mode until I get some titanium in.

 

[Tom Forde]

@Tom Forde

Yes that is a DNA 200 mod. It's called "the giganto brick". it's made by me . Loving the DNA 200 but mostly using it in stock power mode until I get some titanium in.

Download escribe and you can plug in the heat flux curves for a lot of different wires.

 

[Deap]

Scrap build!

Had some 26N80/40N80 Fused Clapton wire and a bunch of ribbon laying around so I tigered the .5mm K1 to 26AN80 and wrapped them parallel around 2.5mm at .23ohm. Thing is a flavor beast on the Petri. Its definetly nice building paralled and staged builds on the Petri with the two side by side holes.

 

[Tom Forde]

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Scrap build!

Had some 26N80/40N80 Fused Clapton wire and a bunch of ribbon laying around so I tigered the .5mm K1 to 26AN80 and wrapped them parallel around 2.5mm at .23ohm. Thing is a flavor beast on the Petri. Its definetly nice building paralled and staged builds on the Petri with the two side by side holes.

Why not build it straight through the posts?
Btw for everyone considering a phenotype-L, it's a sick atty, I was pretty up close with it yesterday, the one thing about it is that you have to build pretty big coils for it because of the way the airflow and posts are set up. Like to get from post to post is a stretch because they're pretty far spaced. I was talking with @floral_face from Instagram about his & basically the builds that work best in it are the ones that stretch from post to post. And the posts are pretty far spaced across the deck. And out of the box, the stock o-rings suck, and should be replaced with some thicker ones. But that's really the only flaw with it. Everything else about it is phenomenal.

 

[Deap]

Why not build it straight through the posts?
Btw for everyone considering a phenotype-L, it's a sick atty, I was pretty up close with it yesterday, the one thing about it is that you have to build pretty big coils for it because of the way the airflow and posts are set up. Like to get from post to post is a stretch because they're pretty far spaced. I was talking with @floral_face from Instagram about his & basically the builds that work best in it are the ones that stretch from post to post. And the posts are pretty far spaced across the deck. And out of the box, the stock o-rings suck, and should be replaced with some thicker ones. But that's really the only flaw with it. Everything else about it is phenomenal.
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The holes are a little to small for thicker staged builds. Also it fits a lot nice that trying to shove 2mm of wire through a 1.5mm hole.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

Thanks Tom for sharing what you kno about the phen, mine are on the plane.

I suppose you cant really drill out the petri's post holes either, how about joining the post holes up to make a slit?

 

[Deap]

Thanks Tom for sharing what you kno about the phen, mine are on the plane.

I suppose you cant really drill out the petri's post holes either, how about joining the post holes up to make a slit?

I've thought about it, but it really doesn't have the airflow to support crazy builds. Like I found for flavor on 26/36-38 aliens it is my favorite Atty. Anything that goes more I go to the Velocity.

Btw I have a con with the Velocity finally. After two months of ownership the side screws are starting to annoy me with how they twist flat wire builds horizontal to vertical.

 

[Tom Forde]

Thanks Tom for sharing what you kno about the phen, mine are on the plane.

I suppose you cant really drill out the petri's post holes either, how about joining the post holes up to make a slit?

You can actually drill out a Petri's post holes to about 1.5mm-1.8mm if you're careful. I'm cool with the size they are, I've adapted to it and my 28g aliens fit absolutely perfectly in the post holes. I build coils specifically for it over my other atties. I gotta say though the TM Atty has won me over. It's awesome. Now I just have to go pick up my Kennedy 24 next week and I'm set on atties for a while.

Side profiles on these coils are great, they're essentially staged heating with the 26g heating up faster than the 28g stagger fused it's sutured to.