Squeezing and Brushing the coil.

[aalmosawi]

Right when you click on the link i provided below you'll see the video startup and see what he says as he's building the wire for his rda (the aeronaut). Here is the link.

He says "i dont know why the brushing helps... but, you know i see everyone else doing it and i started doing it so i think it helps." ... those are HIS words.

Now. Logically the whole idea behind "brushing" and "squeezing" like people do is absurd. and i believe it does absolutely nothing.

I'll tell you why.

When people make their coils on the rda/RBA they will usually keep pulsing to provide heat. The coil is now pretty fresh .. it has absolutely no heat.
However,
The more heat you introduce to it the more it starts to align itself out ..

There is no f'ing way brushing and squeezing the coil is gonna tell the coil... "oh coil, please start your heat distribution from the center and spread it out. do this cause i am squeezing you and i am brushing you." and the coil says back "brush me more and i'll do as you please".
Rubbish.

i believe the more heat you provide by pulsing is when the coil sort of "adjusts" itself.

what proof is there that doing these two things, brushing and squeezing does what is claimed?

Just my thoughts.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

I "brush" mine with the flat end of my drill bit that I mount with and it instantly removes any hot spots/legs. After I mount it, I will fire it one time without brushing and usually I get either/or both hot spots/legs. Rake the drill bit over the top of the coils a few times and then fire again, never fails to fire up perfectly even. No squeezing or anything else is needed.

You ask what proof do I have? None. I just know what I see when I build and it works, for me that's enough.

 

[Marc411]

^^^

Same here, pulsing, pinching and a brush with my ceramic tweezers will always give me a nice evenly glowing coil.

 

[Canadian_Vaper]

Right when you click on the link i provided below you'll see the video startup and see what he says as he's building the wire for his rda (the aeronaut). Here is the link.

He says "i dont know why the brushing helps... but, you know i see everyone else doing it and i started doing it so i think it helps." ... those are HIS words.

Now. Logically the whole idea behind "brushing" and "squeezing" like people do is absurd. and i believe it does absolutely nothing.

I'll tell you why.

When people make their coils on the RDA/RBA they will usually keep pulsing to provide heat. The coil is now pretty fresh .. it has absolutely no heat.
However,
The more heat you introduce to it the more it starts to align itself out ..

There is no f'ing way brushing and squeezing the coil is gonna tell the coil... "oh coil, please start your heat distribution from the center and spread it out. do this cause i am squeezing you and i am brushing you." and the coil says back "brush me more and i'll do as you please".
Rubbish.

i believe the more heat you provide by pulsing is when the coil sort of "adjusts" itself.

what proof is there that doing these two things, brushing and squeezing does what is claimed?

Just my thoughts.

Brushing won't won't do anything for spaced coils but when you have a contact coil it can help seat the loops closer together so it heats up more evenly, not something that needs to be done all the time just when it's needed...

I often use some of my coils for a long time, when rewicking a old coil I'll brush it if there's any buildup.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

^^^

Same here, pulsing, pinching and a brush with my ceramic tweezers will always give me a nice evenly glowing coil.

Yeah I should've added the only reason I don't squeeze mine is I vape tensioned micro coils. With the jig I use I can skip that step until I go up to .125" then I have to squeeze sometimes.

 

[Susan~S]

what proof is there that doing these two things, brushing and squeezing does what is claimed?

Experience.

 

[fitzinthewindow]

I have only been building coils for a couple of months, but I have brushed and squeezed from the start. What I can see is that the process evens out the coil and the spaces between each turn. After just a bit of brushing and squeezing, my coils will typically glow just perfectly. Brushing and squeezing can make up for some sloppy work in the coil winding process. Works for me.

 

[englishmick]

I thought it was voodoo when I first heard of it, but for some reason it works. If you have hot spots and you brush along the coil with something hard it seems to fix the hot spots.

The heating and squeezing is about getting the loops of wire in contact. There are different schools of thought there. You can use contact coils or spaced coils. But you want one or the other. If coils are partly spaced but touching in places you will get temperature variations, which isn't good. The purpose of heating and squeezing is to push all the loops together.

 

[PilotNY]

I "brush" mine with the flat end of my drill bit that I mount with and it instantly removes any hot spots/legs. After I mount it, I will fire it one time without brushing and usually I get either/or both hot spots/legs. Rake the drill bit over the top of the coils a few times and then fire again, never fails to fire up perfectly even. No squeezing or anything else is needed.

You ask what proof do I have? None. I just know what I see when I build and it works, for me that's enough.

+1 for ReigntheGamer!!!!!!

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

Right when you click on the link i provided below you'll see the video startup and see what he says as he's building the wire for his rda (the aeronaut). Here is the link.

He says "i dont know why the brushing helps... but, you know i see everyone else doing it and i started doing it so i think it helps." ... those are HIS words.

Now. Logically the whole idea behind "brushing" and "squeezing" like people do is absurd. and i believe it does absolutely nothing.

I'll tell you why.

When people make their coils on the RDA/RBA they will usually keep pulsing to provide heat. The coil is now pretty fresh .. it has absolutely no heat.
However,
The more heat you introduce to it the more it starts to align itself out ..

There is no f'ing way brushing and squeezing the coil is gonna tell the coil... "oh coil, please start your heat distribution from the center and spread it out. do this cause i am squeezing you and i am brushing you." and the coil says back "brush me more and i'll do as you please".
Rubbish.

i believe the more heat you provide by pulsing is when the coil sort of "adjusts" itself.

what proof is there that doing these two things, brushing and squeezing does what is claimed?

Just my thoughts.

physics doesn't not require you to believe or understand it before it will work

 

[Bad Ninja]

Lol
Physics?
That's funny.


Honestly this is the first time I've ever heard of "brushing a coil".
The again, I don't have hot spots.
I've squeezed them with tweezers if they get pulled apart during installation, but haven't heard of "brushing" a coil.
Still unsure of what that means.

 

[puffon]

"Strumming" the coil
Instead of blow torching or squeezing your coils to remove hotspots, just scrape them gently... • /r/electronic_cigarette

 

[smacuser]

I rarely brush my teeth.

 

[roxynoodle]

It seems to help the individual coils to form a layer of oxidation.

 

[subwayaznm]

I have only been building coils for a couple of months, but I have brushed and squeezed from the start. What I can see is that the process evens out the coil and the spaces between each turn. After just a bit of brushing and squeezing, my coils will typically glow just perfectly. Brushing and squeezing can make up for some sloppy work in the coil winding process. Works for me.

That's me exactly; cleans up my imperfect Coils a bit and gets them to work as advertised. The simple details make up for me.

 

[VHRB2014]

Iv never brushed a coil, but it sounds fun, LOL.

 

[Bad Ninja]

Coil brushers.

 

[sake1bs]

Not sure why it works but it just does, I usually build micro coils and those hot spots go away right after a few brushes with a small flathead, I've pulsed a coil recently about 5 times with just squeezing and the hotspots only disappear after brushing. When things work you just make a habit out of using that technique

 

[PilotNY]

Are we all talking about coils made from Kanthal, SS and nickle? Am not sure OP is referring to coils made from these metals or something he picked up???

 

[ScottP]

I can tell you why it works. If you take a straight piece of ferrous metal, line it up north to south, and tap it with a hammer it will become magnetic. What happens is the atoms are being realigned to the poles. If you heat the metal first, it becomes easier to to get the atoms to align since the atoms move faster when heated.

By the same token, gently heating the coil and brushing/raking it will help align the atoms more evenly to prevent hot spots. Yes it is physics for those of you who doubted.