So I'm looking for a pic of the goblin mini deck. Found this.
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Look at the blowout on the negative posts

Do the screw heads come pre-stripped

Do those screws go down past the wire holes? If so... Yikes
Mine don't have that blowout, or if they do, it's too small for me to see (which is quite possible - these are TINY). In answer to your second question, yes, the original decks that came with the tanks were pre-stripped.

And I think yes to the third question. I'll get to that in a minute.
I just started ignoring the holes, tired of cutting wires, I just wrap the wire around the head of the screw. I use smaller gauge wire, so for me that works. YMMV
TOO SMALL! My hands are trashed, which is why I resisted (resistance is futile, I know, I know) getting into rebuilding for so long. I thought I had to wrap wire around screws, and I can't do that. When I found out that they come with HOLES you can stick the wire through and then tighten the screw down on it, I was all over that idea.

But I wouldn't be able to wrap a wire around a bigger screw, and believe me, if you've never seen one of these, you can't believe how tiny everything is.
Lannie tomorrow I'm gonna finally have time to get your stuff out.
I'm gonna throw a Goblin (authentic) and a Goblin Mini (authentic) in the box.
Throw the janky one out.
Do you have needle bottles?? Without them the Mini is a drag.
OMG, you SPOIL ME! I'll wait to fiddle with these any more until those get here, then. And yes, I have lots of needle bottles. I've been using them to mix up juice samples in when I'm concocting some new kind of juice.
So. What I've been doing for the last hour or so is making coils and seeing if I can get them to read consistently on that Goblin mini. I used 24g wire, which is WAY too big, but for purposes of investigation, it was fine. I found that I don't have to hork down on the screws to get them to hold the wire. Just turning the screw until it stops turning will hold it securely. (This might indicate that the bottom of the screw is sharp... but I don't know.) I did just one coil for my tests, because I think the other problem I might be having is the legs from the second coil might be touching the first coil. It's so cramped, and I can't really move the first coil up or down enough (because it has to be mounted SO close to the posts in order to clear the chimney), that it's hard to get my wire snips in there to clip the legs off cleanly at the posts. Did I explain that well enough? Anyway, so I was doing one coil at a time.
The first one was 3mm, which the chimney wouldn't fit over, but I was only checking resistance, so it was OK. It seemed OK for a minute, then it started jumping around after I fired it, then settled back down and read .69 ohms consistently. (I have it on my Disrupter, so I can read the resistance and fire it, both.) Then I took that one off and made another coil, still using 24g Kanthal, but 2.5mm. Got that mounted fine, and tapped the fire button. I can't remember now what it was reading... I think .84 or something, whatever, it's not important, but it was staying consistent within a couple hundredths. Then I fired it, but only two or three coils on one end (the negative post end) lit up. It was a 10-wrap coil. I let it cool down a little, then fired it again for a sec, strummed it lightly, fired it again (still just those two or three coils on the end glowed), and then it got real bright and said "SHORTED" on the mod's display. Crap. I don't know what I did wrong there.
So I took that one out, tossed all my coils and snips of wire, and put everything away, because I was getting a headache. I already HAVE a headache, but it was getting worse.
Bordering on the ghey.
Years go when I was new in AA I'd somethings go to NA meetings even though I was never into the N. Well at NA they are into hugs. I'm a 3 feet of personal space at all times guy. Haven't been to one in years though I still have my one year NA coin that glows in the dark so I don't have to.
It's a good thing you're waaaaaaay over there, then, 'cuz if you were here, I'd hug you.
Somebody better ride back to town and get a "large amount" of dimes.
That one and the Wide, Wide World of Sports are two of my favorite lines from that movie! LOL! Oh, I have hundreds of favorite lines from that particular movie, but those two always make me laugh out loud. Yes, I've seen that movie over 100 times, and I still laugh at Slim.
