Trying to learn how to rebuild kanger protank 2 coils.. I have organic cotton yarn and 30 gauge kanthal

[FlavorCloudJunkie]

Hi. Im trying to learn how to rebuild my kanger coils. I have organic cotton yarn and 30 gauge kanthal wire. I have sn SVD so it will check my ohms for me but as soon as I can I will be getting a multimeter. I tried to find a video that used the same materials I will be using but I cant.. This will be my first try at rebuilding a coil. So if I build a regular coil none of the wire should touch? Nano coil it should all touch? How do I know what kind of coil to build? Is there anything around the house that would be good to wrap my coil around? One video said a qtip but he was using a different gauge wire. How do I know how many wraps to do? Please help...

 

[vaperature]

Search a little harder, there are all sorts of videos out there. I actually attempted a kanger head recoil this morning, used 32g wire wrapped ten times tightly around a 1/16 drill bit. The ohms fluctuated I guess because the wire kept touching and untouching or something. It finally seemed to level out at 2.9 ohms but when I tried to vape it shorted out. So back to the drawing board. It's not as easy as it looks. Of course I have pretty big hands which makes it a lot harder, lol.

 

[SonHouse]

If you're building a microcoil you usually apply flame and I'm not sure the Q-Tip will hold up to that. Course, I suppose you could mount it and pulse the coil if the resistance were low enough. Most folks get a 1/16" drill bit, wrap as tight as they can and then squeeze it together after applying the torch to heat it. I usually use silica so I'm not the best person to ask. You have anything around the house that's 1/16" diameter and metal?

oh yeah, and something like a set of pliers to hold it? That puppies gonna get hot!

 

[03FXDWG]

There was a video of a woman on here where she used a long straight pin stuck down the center of a piece of silica wick but cotton would work as well & wrapped 2 coils at a time with the wick already inside.

She used a plain Bic type lighter to anneal (burn the manufacturing residue & temper) the kanthal wire before wrapping.

 

[Nailz]

There was a video of a woman on here where she used a long straight pin stuck down the center of a piece of silica wick but cotton would work as well & wrapped 2 coils at a time with the wick already inside.

She used a plain Bic type lighter to anneal (burn the manufacturing residue & temper) the kanthal wire before wrapping.

This one?

 

[Nightcall]

I'm also using 30 gauge Kanthal for my Protank coils. The only thing I have right now is a toothpick to wrap. 7 wraps give me 1.8 ohms. 6 gives me about 2.3.

Before inserting I flame the wire with a Bic lighter and gently squeeze the wire together with a tweezer. It compacts nicely but the coils don't touch (mostly, I guess.)

I read the ohms on my SVD. I don't see the purpose of a multimeter right now. I'm using cotton yarn also. The single thread consists of four individual strands. On this latest build I'm using 2 strands from the thread in the coil, and two strands on top as a flavor wick. so far pretty good, but I'm expecting flooding because... that's usually what happens.

 

[FDKRYAN]

I use 30 gauge kanthal wrapped 5-6 times around a very small screwdriver. I've also used a drill bit. I use organic cotton balls, one thing I've learned about using cotton is "less is more". Good luck!

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[brickfollett]

I used 32 gauge around a 1/16 drill bit. Not sure how many time I wrapped it but it was more than six, maybe 8 wraps? I didnt leave it in the bit when i torched it, I took it out, pinched it together with tweezers while holding the wires the proper direction, then torched it. Worked fine. What I did, and what most people do with micro coil builds (by my understanding) is to then pull your cotton through the coils while they're installed on the head/atty/whatever you want to call it. Trim the cotton, then lay a flavor cotton wick over the coil wick.

Works like a dang charm on the protank! My build came out 3.7 ohms. I like higher ohms, but wasn't quite expecting that high. Still vapes incredible compared to stock protank coils. I put my provari all the way up at 5.5 volts and its nice.

To the OP, my opinion is to maybe not bother with a dedicated ohm checker. I only have my provari to check my ohms and its probably as accurate as anything out there. only problem is it burns it at a very low voltage while checking the ohms, not sure if ohm checkers do that or not. The SVD should be fine for checking your ohms, that's just me though.

Also, the 30 ga wire should still work fine with a 1/16 drill bit. pick one up at home depot for a couple bucks, or just do like I did and use a cue tip and remove the coil before torching it. Should do ya just fine. Drill bit is certainly nice for the rigidity and you can really get a tight wrap on it

Lastly, on a micro coil, the wires will ALL be touching each other and should be real nice and tight. I feel like it would be much more difficult to pull the cotton through on a non micro coil build

 

[cjsaxman]

There was a video of a woman on here where she used a long straight pin stuck down the center of a piece of silica wick but cotton would work as well & wrapped 2 coils at a time with the wick already inside.

She used a plain Bic type lighter to anneal (burn the manufacturing residue & temper) the kanthal wire before wrapping.

I recently starting building them as well. I was taught by someone who runs the new local vape store here. Yhat is indeed what is done. Not sure what you mean by 2 coils at a time.

For me, I cut about an inch of that silica wick, I the sharp part of a safety pen or sewing need or something of that sort through the middle of the wick, it is tricky because it will try to poke back out as you're pushing it in and you have to make sure the wick doesn't unravel.

I cut maybe 2 1/2 inches, not sure (just be generous with it, don't want to coil the wire then it be to short and have to start again lol) of the wire, I burn all over the wire with a lighter (not entirely sure the point but I was taught to do it, I think it is to burn of some stuff that is on the wire that keeps it from heating as well.) After which I wrap it 6 times around the wick to make the coil, it takes a bit of finesse, I had to start over so many times at first. It has to be narrow enough to fit in the housing, but not too narrow where the coil touches itself. I learned that it needed to be 6 times specifically though Ive seen videos with them maybe doing 4 or 5.

 

[joelpeavy]

I think I can answer the 2 coils question. The KT3 style 2.2ohm coils are actually a pair of coils with wick material. I was somewhat confused when I started rebuilding the first one when I had 4 wires staring at me from the bottom side but realized what it was when I removed the top stem.

Now to take it a touch further and get that RDA feel going, I replaced all of my KT3 coils with 1.2ohm around 3mm cotton string. I had to add a touch of organic cotton ball to the top of that setup to keep the leaking to a minimum. But basically my setup is about the same as what I do with my RDAs. I use 30AWG kanthal, wrapped around a tiny allen wrench that came with my Nimbus. I have to place the wick on top of the tiny wrench then do a 5/6 wrap with tight coils. I get a 1.28ohm read on my ohm checker and a 1.2ohm read on my Tesla VV/VW. Can't go lower than that unless I use the tank on my mech mods, but then "why" since I sub-ohm on them.

 

[VOTX]

I've found myself hours after hours trying different things, but I like the 30g 4/3 microcoil with organic cotton. I get about 1.2-1.4 ohm (I'm away from home and forgot my ohm meter. Had to buy one from harbor freight today and am not impressed the last bit by a $6 multi meter...) So my readings won't be too precise. But it is a good vape on my twist.

 

[DreamWithin]

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