The Womper Woom, Womp it again Sam.

[Sir Kadly]

That's much simpler than it looks. Make one contact coil twice the desired finished height, then with a screwdriver fold it in half. This may be easier to show in a video. Let me know.

I actually thought of that, but at least in the picture I saw that would make the one half coil in the wrong direction. Maybe that doesn't matter? seems like for mounting though it would, but maybe my brain just can't picture it properly without actually trying it. Hmmm, have some 22 gage that I doubt I'll ever use, guess it wouldn't hurt to play with that just to make sure I have the technique down.

 

[Sir Kadly]

I just picked up the hammer and saw.

My problem from a spatial visualization standpoint was that I wanted the bridge to go straight rather than cross over, which led to the legs not coming out correctly. My way, one side had to have an extra half wrap, and was still on the wrong side of the coil. Thanks you!

 

[USMCotaku]

OK, need some help from the coil experts. I saw a build I'd like to try in one of my Merlins, but I am at a loss on how to build it. It was a "dual" vertical coil build. So why am I struggling, and why did I put the word dual in quotes? Because it was wrapped from a single wire, connected at the top. Hopefully that makes sense enough that you can picture what I mean.

In my mind I'd have to use 2 jigs, one for each leg, wrapping opposite directions on each, and somehow keeping them close enough together while wrapping that the "bridge" section stays the right length.

Something like this?

If so, you wrap on the same jig [emoji14]
Say you want each to be 6 wraps......wrap your 6, leave a small space, then wrap 6 more. Pull your jig out and bend at the space (two jigs of the same size can help keep things nice and even here).

Another method is to do your six wraps, leave a small space, then wrap six more in the opposite directio.

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[Debadoo]

Seems I remember The Boden also claimed his average time at 4 seconds... Interesting.

Tek started as three guys in a garage in Portland, Oregon (what? about 1946 - I fergited - I must be gittin' oldt). They grew and grew and had a huge campus in Beaverton, then another one in Wilsonville, then one in Vancouver, a small plant called Walker Road (between Beaverton and Hillsboro - actually the first headquarters before they bought the Beaverton campus). They even had a European factory in England (Guernsey, and they might still have a small facility in Berkshire), and small facilities in many other countries. At one point in time, they were America's leading oscilloscope manufacturer and still focus only on test and measurement equipment (all other divisions, like printers and medical, were sold off ages ago). I left them when the last of the founders died and the board of directors installed an outside CEO who immediately ruined the company (employees no longer got profit share - it all went to stockholders). At one time, George Soros tried to buy it out and all employees rallied behind Howard Vollum's wife, giving her our proxy votes, and forced him to buzz off. That was the last time I saw such a group rally like that because the new CEO disenchanted everyone. In 2007 it was bought out by Danaher Corporation, who also owns Fluke and a bunch of others, so I don't even consider that Tek still exists, even if the name/logo is still being put on all the foreign-made equipment.

Wow.......good thing they kept it from Soros, but so many good businesses have been ruined like that from plain greed. It's a shame.

Great vid Boden. Was there supposed to be sound, or no?

Kewl Cody!

 

[Sir Kadly]

Think I got it, my "test" coil came out as planned. It's an ungly thing, wrapped very quickly freehand (Im used to using the Coilmaster, so...) and using much stiffer wire than I normally use, but it matches what I wanted it to look like shapewise.

Thanks guys!

 

[Boden]

I just picked up the hammer and saw.

My problem from a spatial visualization standpoint was that I wanted the bridge to go straight rather than cross over, which led to the legs not coming out correctly. My way, one side had to have an extra half wrap, and was still on the wrong side of the coil. Thanks you!

Like this?

 

[Sir Kadly]

Like this?
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That's what I was aiming for, looks like I figured out how to do it, not quite like your video, but it helped me understand part of what I was missing.

 

[Sir Kadly]

Now, decisions decisions. Triple twisted 28g or 24/28 clapton?

 

[Boden]

That's what I was aiming for, looks like I figured out how to do it, not quite like your video, but it helped me understand part of what I was missing.

That would be pretty easy to do with a coil master. Just do half the wraps normally then use a tiny screwdriver to act as a stop and then wrap the second half the other way.

 

[Sir Kadly]

That would be pretty easy to do with a coil master. Just do half the wraps normally then use a tiny screwdriver to act as a stop and then wrap the second half the other way.

I used needle nose pliers for my test coil.

 

[Boden]

Now, decisions decisions. Triple twisted 28g or 24/28 clapton?

Why not a 24/24 Clapton?

 

[Sir Kadly]

Why not a 24/24 Clapton?

Because I don't have any, and I'm not quite set up to make my own yet.
OK, I went with tripple twisted, just because I haven't built any coils out of twisted yet. Ummm, my 521 tab takes forever to get this coil glowing. Thinking I'm gonna have to run at a much higher wattage for this than I would for a plain jane coil at the same resistance, aren't I?

 

[Debadoo]

Think I got it, my "test" coil came out as planned. It's an ungly thing, wrapped very quickly freehand (Im used to using the Coilmaster, so...) and using much stiffer wire than I normally use, but it matches what I wanted it to look like shapewise.

Thanks guys!

kewl! Glad you got it figgered out. It's just great how no matter what question someone has.........someone else generally has the answer.

 

[Atchafalaya]

Wait........what?!?!? A movie reference that you know?!?!? [emoji38]

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[Debadoo]

ok kiddies, I'm off to bed. Love y'all!!

 

[Boden]

Because I don't have any, and I'm not quite set up to make my own yet.
OK, I went with tripple twisted, just because I haven't built any coils out of twisted yet. Ummm, my 521 tab takes forever to get this coil glowing. Thinking I'm gonna have to run at a much higher wattage for this than I would for a plain jane coil at the same resistance, aren't I?

Oh yeah, its gonna be a hot vape.

Not as hot as the coil i just invented!

The Armored Kad

Parallel 26ga fused with 26ga and .6x.1 flat wire.

 

[Sir Kadly]

Not the prettiest coil in the world, and not the best picture, but...

 

[Eskie]

Tek started as three guys in a garage in Portland, Oregon (what? about 1946 - I fergited - I must be gittin' oldt). They grew and grew and had a huge campus in Beaverton, then another one in Wilsonville, then one in Vancouver, a small plant called Walker Road (between Beaverton and Hillsboro - actually the first headquarters before they bought the Beaverton campus). They even had a European factory in England (Guernsey, and they might still have a small facility in Berkshire), and small facilities in many other countries. At one point in time, they were America's leading oscilloscope manufacturer and still focus only on test and measurement equipment (all other divisions, like printers and medical, were sold off ages ago). I left them when the last of the founders died and the board of directors installed an outside CEO who immediately ruined the company (employees no longer got profit share - it all went to stockholders). At one time, George Soros tried to buy it out and all employees rallied behind Howard Vollum's wife, giving her our proxy votes, and forced him to buzz off. That was the last time I saw such a group rally like that because the new CEO disenchanted everyone. In 2007 it was bought out by Danaher Corporation, who also owns Fluke and a bunch of others, so I don't even consider that Tek still exists, even if the name/logo is still being put on all the foreign-made equipment.

So many companies have been bought, sold, resold, reorganized, reinvented, that eventually you're just left with a brand name and logo. And in so many industries. It never works out for the employees. At least it sounds like you had a good work environment for the time you were there.

 

[DavidOck]

 

[Eskie]

Not the prettiest coil in the world, and not the best picture, but...

How would you wick that?