vape tools/gear

[Rocketpunk]

Carto punch tool, mini screw driver, tweezers, slap yo mama, and a paper clip.

Not pictured: pliers (both regular and needle-nosed), paper towels, and beer bottle caps. When upside down, they make excellent places to lay glass drippers or set down drip tips if you want to avoid juice ring buildup.

EDIT: After seeing a lot of these gear stashes, I'm glad sub-ohm and rebuildables aren't my thing. I'm surely glad they are to others, though, and touch that tinkerer soul in a lot of people. But I ain't one of 'em, and my Spartan mentality thanks me. To me, less is more. But that's just one type of thinking. I'm glad there are options out there for everyone else.

 

[jrs99]

The vape Lab in my basement "office"

and my little ghetto micro-coil jig I made this weekend which has made life real easy.

 

[zhentipede]

toenail clippers and maybe a propane or butane torch. a half decent butane torch lighter will work but not as quick as a propane one.

I usually just use the stove when building at home but for transport I need a small portable one on a budget

 

[CrimsonJack]

I have to get around to making myself a jig like that. I've been wrapping around drill bits, that would make things so much easier. I was sitting here all proud of my little tacklebox full of vape tools and here come the full-on workbench guys. Gonna hafta work on upping my game, I guess.

 

[OzarkTroutBum]

I have to get around to making myself a jig like that. I've been wrapping around drill bits, that would make things so much easier. I was sitting here all proud of my little tacklebox full of vape tools and here come the full-on workbench guys. Gonna hafta work on upping my game, I guess.

You have a tacklebox? Cool!!

I just have a Sterilite tote I picked up at Walmart for $3.

 

[CrimsonJack]

You have a tacklebox? Cool!!

I just have a Sterilite tote I picked up at Walmart for $3.

Mine was $6 from the same place fishing section has a surprising amount of vape gear!

 

[jrs99]

I have to get around to making myself a jig like that. I've been wrapping around drill bits, that would make things so much easier. I was sitting here all proud of my little tacklebox full of vape tools and here come the full-on workbench guys. Gonna hafta work on upping my game, I guess.

I was using drill bits but you can just wrap so tight with it jigged up and it's hella easier. I just cracked it trying to move the screw up closer to the wrapping post. I just threw it together with sh** I found around the basement but now it's time to build a better one.
Now the cool thing would be to somehow incorporate an ohm meter so you just hit the button each time you do a wrap and dial it in.

 

[Gfinch]

Is the torch necessary? Or will a Bic lighter work in a pinch? I am getting ready to start rebuilding Protank coils and then get an RBA with tank. I am on the road in my truck so portability and EASE of use are important. The torches I have seen on various Youtube videos seem to be the chef torches where you just press the button and instant flamethrower. LOL. Seems nice. Still bewildered about what is a good starting RBA with a tank tho. Thinking either RSSt or Kayfun clone, Russian etc.

I love seeing the various workstations. When I show them to the wife I get the look that says "You need all of that too??!!" Haha.


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[degnr8]

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Used to clean out cartos.

Also how I make my juice without making a giant mess

 

[CrimsonJack]

Is the torch necessary? Or will a Bic lighter work in a pinch? I am getting ready to start rebuilding Protank coils and then get an RBA with tank. I am on the road in my truck so portability and EASE of use are important. The torches I have seen on various Youtube videos seem to be the chef torches where you just press the button and instant flamethrower. LOL. Seems nice. Still bewildered about what is a good starting RBA with a tank tho. Thinking either RSSt or Kayfun clone, Russian etc.

I love seeing the various workstations. When I show them to the wife I get the look that says "You need all of that too??!!" Haha.


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I got my little butane torch from Home Depot for like 14 bucks. Works great, small, easy to use. It's in the pic up there.

 

[cramptholomew]

My wife thinks I go overboard but I just like to be well equiped. Then tall small black drawers are all wire, ekowools and silicas and the rubbermaid drawers are all full of supplies and thats the last lighter I ever bought and all it lights is the propane torch now. I like having a glass tabletop, its nice to put hot torched coils on it without burning the tabletop and a ceramic tile to put old unwashed heads and leaking attys on.
I also use propane torch..its much simpler and handier than butane

May I be the first to say, "HOLY CRAPAZOIDS!!!"?

 

[jrs99]

Is the torch necessary? Or will a Bic lighter work in a pinch? I am getting ready to start rebuilding Protank coils and then get an RBA with tank. I am on the road in my truck so portability and EASE of use are important. The torches I have seen on various Youtube videos seem to be the chef torches where you just press the button and instant flamethrower. LOL. Seems nice. Still bewildered about what is a good starting RBA with a tank tho. Thinking either RSSt or Kayfun clone, Russian etc.

I love seeing the various workstations. When I show them to the wife I get the look that says "You need all of that too??!!" Haha.


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I've never had any luck with butane lighters as I never could get them to fill and be worth a damn. So I had a benzene torch and it works like a champ.
I didn't really use it until I started trying to figure out micro coils this weekend.

 

[Alter]

Is the torch necessary? Or will a Bic lighter work in a pinch? I am getting ready to start rebuilding Protank coils and then get an RBA with tank. I am on the road in my truck so portability and EASE of use are important. The torches I have seen on various Youtube videos seem to be the chef torches where you just press the button and instant flamethrower. LOL. Seems nice. Still bewildered about what is a good starting RBA with a tank tho. Thinking either RSSt or Kayfun clone, Russian etc.

I love seeing the various workstations. When I show them to the wife I get the look that says "You need all of that too??!!" Haha.


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A bic lighter doesn't get hot enough and it leaves black carbon deposits. When building microcoils you have to red hot burn the coil for bout 10 seconds and you can consume a lot of butane, those little pocket torches don't hold that much liquid and those cans of butane are expensive. I wrap my microcoil on a 1.2mm percision screwdriver, 9 wraps of 30 kanthal gets me my 2.0 ohms. I don't subohm either and rarely drip since I an get a decent vape out of my protank. I also got 2 setups to maintain so my wife handing me her PV and saying "it tastes burn't", but she doesn't like the cotton so I have to build seperate just regular 32 guage and ekowool coils for her.
BTW.. You'll find microcoils to be juice hogs, I now go through over double the juice I was before with a regular coil.