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[Tom Forde]

@Deap you can find 55g at twisted messes website. Aeolus v2 looks great! It was one of the atties I was considering, but don't get me wrong I still may get one lol. And on those 4 screws in the deck, make sure they're screwed in tight, don't use them for building. Just make the quads using the posts... TM doesn't have any 55g at the moment but they do have 50g N60... http://twistedmesses.com/product/50g-nichrome-60-1000ft/
Here's Kent's description of 50g lol
"This is intended for clapton coils, very difficult clapton coils. No joke, this stuff is literally too thin to see. It is nearly impossible to work with. Make sure you know what you are buying before purchasing this item. Think of this as 1,000 feet of pure frustration. It is very very challenging to use this wire to make any sort of coil. Also, it isn’t cheap, so please, I beg you to consider thoroughly before purchasing this."

@Superfecta_ great work on the suture staple. That looks perfect. Try wrapping single coil zipper style with the ribbon facing inwards towards eachother. I've seen it done once, it looks pretty freakin awesome. I praise all you for your ribbon work. I do not have the patience to wrap it vertically lol. Ribbon and I do NOT get along and I'm trying to change that.
Edit: I'm going to get the Nikita clone, but not just yet. I'm gonna wait a little bit on it and keep enjoying my limitless for a while

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

you guys are crazy with your 40-50g wire

Although saying this i do keep getting the urge to pull the trigger on some 44g i have had my beady eye on, the only thing is i have used 38g & 34g and i dont see any difference in the vape to say 32g personally, i can see G's point in having more accommodating attys now with the smaller wires but i also found that the thinner wire as in my 38g smoothed out the vape alot compared to 32g which produced more gaps in the claptons after wrapping the coils.

Your thoughts guys?

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

26g n80, 34g n80 Alien paralleled with 20g A1, 0.07ohm

and no more than a half second fire up, vapor looks like a dual coil


and a couple of things i'm trying out that are also a good vape on the sigelei

and a dif one

 

[Tom Forde]

you guys are crazy with your 40-50g wire

Although saying this i do keep getting the urge to pull the trigger on some 44g i have had my beady eye on, the only thing is i have used 38g & 34g and i dont see any difference in the vape to say 32g personally, i can see G's point in having more accommodating attys now with the smaller wires but i also found that the thinner wire as in my 38g smoothed out the vape alot compared to 32g which produced more gaps in the claptons after wrapping the coils.

Your thoughts guys?

Thinnest I go really is 40g for most builds. Highest I'd consider going is 46g, I think anything past that would be overkill & extremely hard to work with. But 36/38 fused Claptons are a lot smoother than 32g fused Claptons. Higher gauges make it so the finished product isn't twice as thick as the core wire you start out with.

Like for example if you compare a 24/32g Clapton to a 24/38g or 24/40g Clapton the wire is going to be considerably easier to work with, it'll stay relatively the same size as the core wire and will be less springy after wrapped. A 24/32g Clapton will be closer to say 22g in size, and the ramp time will be longer no matter the material used.

The overall vape is smoother, because the wire is smoother, and it has smaller yet more grooves over the core.
I still love 32g, I like using it for stagger fused/ staple sutures & wires of a similar nature. I'll use a 26g core, Clapton it up with 32g & then fuse it with 36/38/40g. With 40g, you don't even need to space Clapton to get it to fit, the 40g will lay inside the grooves of the 32g Clapton perfectly.

 

[Superfecta_]

Try wrapping single coil zipper style with the ribbon facing inwards towards eachother.

That's a great idea. I'm thinking I can dual that build in my 28mm Alliance. 4x ribbon on each obviously instead of 8. May even be able to get another wrap.

Your thoughts guys?

34g when your feeling really lazy, 36g is standard, 38-40 still pretty easy to wrap, looks a lot better than 36, more time consuming (36/38 is my staggered fused gauges of choice.) 40+ for when you are trying to be cute.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

Good deal guys

Are both you using these thin gauges in n80?

i might get some

 

[Superfecta_]

n80?

Always N80

Here are a couple more pre fire shots. I need a better camera, can't ever get pics I'm happy with.

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

looking cute

ima order me some 44g (0.05) n80 and give this a try

EDITkay i got me 400m on the way i just hope i can get a couple of coils outta that lol

 

[Housetek]

playing with some mirror builds

 

[Tom Forde]

playing with some mirror builds

Looking good, ultrasonicly cleaning them? Just a lil warning, if you keep them coiled up off the drill like that you will need an ultrasonic cleaner to get all the grit off the finished product. However I find that if you unwrap the wire so it's uncoiled and clean it pretty thoroughly it should be pretty safe to vape on.
And ya slip, I use a lot of thin gauge N80, my next coil will be a non-framed multi strand 40g core wrapped in 40g, I still gotta figure out how many cores to use.
Edit: a local B&M I spoke to will let me use their ultrasonic cleaner for my polished wire & coils so, this is before cleaning:

18g N80 sanded from 120, 150, 220, 340, 440, & 600 grit papers. The red reflection is the ring housing the lens of my phone camera clip lol. 7 wrap on a 5/32 bit which is huge.

 

[Deap]

@Tom Forde 40+ AWG is what you want. Despite any other build my constant go to is high gauge fused Clapton's. 44 has been the sweet spot. I'm dying to try 50/55g, but I know it will be my downfall since builders like Squidoode are struggling for more than 4" of it at a time.

My current frustration is a 40g Alien... I will get it. The other is my girlfriend thought she was cleaning and threw away my coil bin. So much anger. Easily a dozen Aliens, too many fuseds to count, staggereds for days, and who knows what else.

So in my current efforts to restock a staple .5K1/36N80 on my Petri 1.5 on the ever so awesome Praxis 2.

 

[Deap]

@Tom Forde 40+ AWG is what you want. Despite any other build my constant go to is high gauge fused Clapton's. 44 has been the sweet spot. I'm dying to try 50/55g, but I know it will be my downfall since builders like Squidoode are struggling for more than 4" of it at a time.

My current frustration is a 40g Alien... I will get it. The other is my girlfriend thought she was cleaning and threw away my coil bin. So much anger. Easily a dozen Aliens, too many fuseds to count, staggereds for days, and who knows what else.

So in my current efforts to restock a staple .5K1/36N80 on my Petri 1.5 on the ever so awesome Praxis 2.View attachment 493239

 

[Tom Forde]

38g aliens are cake now. This was my entry for @thecoilcollective's build off on Instagram.

It's a 2 core 24g KA1 stitched alien with a 38g alien & 32g stitch. Came out almost just how I wanted it. Had to pinch down the lead on the negative to get it to fit on the deck of my TM Atty

 

[Deap]

What is that

38g aliens are cake now. This was my entry for @thecoilcollective's build off on Instagram. View attachment 493321View attachment 493322
It's a 2 core 24g KA1 stitched alien with a 38g alien & 32g stitch. Came out just how I wanted it. Had to pinch down the lead on the negative to get it to fit on the deck of my TM Atty

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[Tom Forde]

What is that

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A stitched alien using thicker wire than the alien wrap itself. I stretched the 38g as much as I could over the 32g stitch, looking back I should have flattened the alien while it was still in the drill so all of the wraps would be flattened in the same direction but whatever. Still looks awesome

 

[Deap]

A stitched alien using thicker wire than the alien wrap itself

Sorry I read the description just admiring the precision. I semi-agree on the 38g aliens being not too hard, but that thing is art. Who cares how it vapes at that point. I don't usually drool over coilporn but that one's awesome Tom. Only because I can imagine the amount of time put into that. I still respect the decored alien because I can never make more than 6-8" of alien (on the best day) so I can never posses myself to decore and extend one.

 

[Tom Forde]

Sorry I read the description just admiring the precision. I semi-agree on the 38g aliens being not too hard, but that thing is art. Who cares how it vapes at that point. I don't usually drool over coilporn but that one's awesome Tom. Only because I can imagine the amount of time put into that. I still respect the decored alien because I can never make more than 6-8" of alien (on the best day) so I can never posses myself to decore and extend one.

Thanks, that single coil was the only amount of usable wire I got out of it, but my cores were only around 8" lond, the rest of the wire either didn't line up right or the pattern fluctuated took much. Didn't really take that long, the 32g stitch acts as a guide for the alien wrap itself.

 

[Housetek]

Looking good, ultrasonicly cleaning them? Just a lil warning, if you keep them coiled up off the drill like that you will need an ultrasonic cleaner to get all the grit off the finished product. However I find that if you unwrap the wire so it's uncoiled and clean it pretty thoroughly it should be pretty safe to vape on.
And ya slip, I use a lot of thin gauge N80, my next coil will be a non-framed multi strand 40g core wrapped in 40g, I still gotta figure out how many cores to use.
Edit: a local B&M I spoke to will let me use their ultrasonic cleaner for my polished wire & coils so, this is before cleaning: View attachment 493171View attachment 493172 18g N80 sanded from 120, 150, 220, 340, 440, & 600 grit papers. The red reflection is the ring housing the lens of my phone camera clip lol. 7 wrap on a 5/32 bit which is huge.

yes i have a ultrasonic cleaner. i recorded the amount of gunk that comes off these things. its nasty

 

[vapeNoob4]

This is the Sigelei 150w TC and Cigreen Triangle re-buildable.

Difficult to coil and wick due to the post design, but pulls like butter with my flavors. Currently dripping Northern Lights Bear Claw juice at 18mg. Coil setup resistance is 0.126 ohms.

 

[USMCotaku]

Dual Ti Clapton.

24/32 gauge, 3mm id, ohms at .08

Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping