Well I did it, and I can't believe IT WORKS!

[alisa1970]

I'm sorta proud of myself...and a little scared at the same time.

I've been wanting to start rebuilding for several months now, but I've been taking many, many baby steps to get there. Part of it is not having the right materials, part of it is that I don't really have a whole lot of time to fiddle around with stuff.

I have a mini RDA and when I bought it I bought pre-wrapped coils for it, and have also been using them to rebuild my clearo heads (Protanks, Aro's, and Evods). I learned how to take apart the base of the coil head and put the new coil on, and I've been using cotton ball wicking for the last month or so. With all that, I still never got any Kanthal, and I figured eventually I would get some and try a little coil wrapping.

I've watched a few videos and I have a VV V3.0 so I can check my ohms and stuff, but tonight I got a wild hair and decided to try it with a crapped out coil I had.

I had dry burned the coil but it was still gunky and after I lightly brushed it off, it wouldn't fire. My intention was to get one of my new coils and replace the dead one.

When the rubber plug came out, the whole coil unwound and came out with it. Rather than throwing it away, I cleaned it off, straightened it out, and decided to try wrapping a new one with it.

OMG - after a bit of fuffling around with what to wrap it on, I got the coil wrapped, and get it onto the head. Tested it, and it reads 2.4 ohm! It fires!! Got it all wicked and some new juice in the tank, and voila--

I'm still a bit awed that my first try worked, and with a used coil. Hopefully it's safe enough...so far so good, though! But please, if anyone sees "dumb noob" in this post somewhere, please say something.

 

[Maggiemw]

Congratulations! Coiling and recoiling are fun and once you get the hang of it, easy and quick to do. Checking the result with an Ohms meter, like you did, is vital. It feels great when you get the reading you wanted, doesn't it?

 

[RoseB]

That is really cool

 

[turbocad6]

the only thing stopping you from doing it all along was you thinking you couldn't now grab a few different gauges and play with it

 

[alisa1970]

Congratulations! Coiling and recoiling are fun and once you get the hang of it, easy and quick to do. Checking the result with an Ohms meter, like you did, is vital. It feels great when you get the reading you wanted, doesn't it?

Yes, it do. I had no idea what it was going to read--I think I did 5 wraps, on 32 gauge wire. But really, I was just winging it.

 

[Raths]

Nice! I like hearing about success stories. I just today ordered some wire and silica, so it may be a while til I get there. But I do know a guy who rebuilds his coils and I gave him 6 to do for me (would have been 9 but the Mrs. was throwing them away ). He will be bringing me a few of each 1.2, 1.8 and 2.2 atomizers in a few days. Can't wait to experiment with the different resistances!

 

[alisa1970]

Nice! I like hearing about success stories. I just today ordered some wire and silica, so it may be a while til I get there. But I do know a guy who rebuilds his coils and I gave him 6 to do for me (would have been 9 but the Mrs. was throwing them away ). He will be bringing me a few of each 1.2, 1.8 and 2.2 atomizers in a few days. Can't wait to experiment with the different resistances!

LOL on the missus. I started off just changing my silica flavor wicks with cottonm because I'm a flavor junkie and the silica just seemed to not be doing it for me anymore. That was a big step up, but I was afraid to take the main wick out because I didn't want to break anything. Once I decided to try changing the main wick to cotton, the vapor and flavor was AWESOME, so I immediately switched out all my wicks.

Some of the coils broke when I did that, so I watched a video on how to rebuild Protank heads. I figured I could do everything but the wrapping part and use my pre-wrapped coils. That worked out great, and so I've been rewicking and re-installing my coils for about a month now.

I'm never afraid that I can't do something, but I know my ADD tendencies and I tend to break stuff when I fiddle so I've never wanted to mess with it. Well, I guess I'm doing OK!

 

[Fisheeboy]

That is so awesome! And very encouraging to me because I'm gonna be doing coils for the first time hopefully tomorrow when my stuff gets here. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thanks for sharing your wonderful success story with us.

 

[InTheShade]

Congratulations overachiever...

It took me about 2 hours to get a working coil on my vivi nova the first time I tried. Eventually I had to ask the wife to help me make the coil.

Now get yourself some wire from Temco and build away.

Totally kidding on the by the way, I think it's awesome.

 

[alisa1970]

Thanks, In the Shade, I feel sort of funny, being a late bloomer and all. I've been vaping for almost a year. I was starting to feel kinda loser-ish for not being so gung-ho on the whole rebuilding thing. Even some of my ECF buddies who are 20+ years older, and vaping for less time then me, are all rebuilding. I was beginning to feel left behind..

I guess it just takes me a while before I feel real comfortable with things, or daring enough not to care if I screw up.

 

[Choc_Addic]

You are not...

"dumb noob"

Congrad's all around.

Cheers

 

[AndriaD]

I'm sorta proud of myself...and a little scared at the same time.

I've been wanting to start rebuilding for several months now, but I've been taking many, many baby steps to get there. Part of it is not having the right materials, part of it is that I don't really have a whole lot of time to fiddle around with stuff.

I have a mini RDA and when I bought it I bought pre-wrapped coils for it, and have also been using them to rebuild my clearo heads (Protanks, Aro's, and Evods). I learned how to take apart the base of the coil head and put the new coil on, and I've been using cotton ball wicking for the last month or so. With all that, I still never got any Kanthal, and I figured eventually I would get some and try a little coil wrapping.

I've watched a few videos and I have a VV V3.0 so I can check my ohms and stuff, but tonight I got a wild hair and decided to try it with a crapped out coil I had.

I had dry burned the coil but it was still gunky and after I lightly brushed it off, it wouldn't fire. My intention was to get one of my new coils and replace the dead one.

When the rubber plug came out, the whole coil unwound and came out with it. Rather than throwing it away, I cleaned it off, straightened it out, and decided to try wrapping a new one with it.

OMG - after a bit of fuffling around with what to wrap it on, I got the coil wrapped, and get it onto the head. Tested it, and it reads 2.4 ohm! It fires!! Got it all wicked and some new juice in the tank, and voila--

I'm still a bit awed that my first try worked, and with a used coil. Hopefully it's safe enough...so far so good, though! But please, if anyone sees "dumb noob" in this post somewhere, please say something.

Good job!!! I think a couple of my coils are at a point of dead-unless-rebuilt... today I dry-burned all my coils (4 of them, 3 for T3S and one for the ARO pyrex)... the ARO and one of the T3S coils are fine now, work great, and taste really good with the cotton wicks in place of the silica flavor wicks. But, 2 of the T3S coils leak badly, and one of them which should be a 2.5 ohm coil is registering as 3.0, 3.1, on my iTaste vv3. Actually I forgot to check the other one that's misbehaving, but this does sound like coils that need rebuilding, right? The one I forgot to check, it fires, sorta, but gurgling all the while, and not much vapor. the one that registered 3.1 the last time I checked it, I was afraid to try and fire, so I dunno if it does or not, but it sure does leak, even without firing it.

I have 3 others on order that should be here tomorrow, and I have a working T3S and the ARO, as well as a cartomizer a friend gave me, so I'm not freaking about it, but I guess the time is coming that I'm gonna have to start watching those rebuilding vids, and get the materials - the wire and whatever else. *sigh* Any suggestions on good vids to learn rebuilding for these T3S coils? That link you gave me for the dry-burning vid was EXCELLENT!

But I think I'm about to go seriously into the cartomizers for this very reason, so much mucking about with these stupid tanks and coils. Plus I really like how much lighter it is, without a big tankful of juice on top.

Andria

 

[Choc_Addic]

Any suggestions on good vids to learn rebuilding for these T3S coils?

These are same as EVOD or Protank. All videos (and clean/built/dryburn procedurs) are applicable to your T3s.


Cheers

 

[alisa1970]

Good job!!! I think a couple of my coils are at a point of dead-unless-rebuilt... today I dry-burned all my coils (4 of them, 3 for T3S and one for the ARO pyrex)... the ARO and one of the T3S coils are fine now, work great, and taste really good with the cotton wicks in place of the silica flavor wicks. But, 2 of the T3S coils leak badly, and one of them which should be a 2.5 ohm coil is registering as 3.0, 3.1, on my iTaste vv3. Actually I forgot to check the other one that's misbehaving, but this does sound like coils that need rebuilding, right? The one I forgot to check, it fires, sorta, but gurgling all the while, and not much vapor. the one that registered 3.1 the last time I checked it, I was afraid to try and fire, so I dunno if it does or not, but it sure does leak, even without firing it.

I have 3 others on order that should be here tomorrow, and I have a working T3S and the ARO, as well as a cartomizer a friend gave me, so I'm not freaking about it, but I guess the time is coming that I'm gonna have to start watching those rebuilding vids, and get the materials - the wire and whatever else. *sigh* Any suggestions on good vids to learn rebuilding for these T3S coils? That link you gave me for the dry-burning vid was EXCELLENT!

But I think I'm about to go seriously into the cartomizers for this very reason, so much mucking about with these stupid tanks and coils. Plus I really like how much lighter it is, without a big tankful of juice on top.

Andria

These are same as EVOD or Protank. All videos (and clean/built/dryburn procedurs) are applicable to your T3s.


Cheers

Hey Andria,

Choc is right...the video I watched for rebuilding the heads was from Rip Tripper. Totally easy to watch and understand.

 

[Myrany]

Gratz OP!

Doesn't it feel great to know you CAN do it! With a little practice you will have it down to an art form and can quickly do a whole stack of them to match exactly your preferred ohms.

Huge money saver too.

 

[AndriaD]

Hey Andria,

Choc is right...the video I watched for rebuilding the heads was from Rip Tripper. Totally easy to watch and understand.

Thanks -- I haven't watched it yet, but copied the URL so I could bookmark it -- I had a heck of a time finding that one you gave me about the dry-burn, finally I just went to youtube and searched 'dry-burn t3s coils' and it popped up. But, does this rebuilding one tell you everything you'll need, what kind of wire, etc? Because I'm lost in the dark about it, right now -- wouldn't even know what kind of wire to buy, or what gauge.

Thx!!!!
Andria

 

[naor223]

Congratulations !

 

[Myrany]

Thanks -- I haven't watched it yet, but copied the URL so I could bookmark it -- I had a heck of a time finding that one you gave me about the dry-burn, finally I just went to youtube and searched 'dry-burn t3s coils' and it popped up. But, does this rebuilding one tell you everything you'll need, what kind of wire, etc? Because I'm lost in the dark about it, right now -- wouldn't even know what kind of wire to buy, or what gauge.

Thx!!!!
Andria

ANdria he suggests 28 gauge wire, 12 wraps on a 5/64 drill bit

I do not agree with him on that. If you change to a 30 gauge wire you can do LESS wraps and hit the same ohms BUT the coil will not be as long so it will be easier to fit in the tiny head without touching metal on the sides and shorting things out.

I also do one thing differently. I leave the drill bit in the coil until I lock down the legs. I just stick it down in the slots on the sides. It keeps me from pulling the coil down too far into the head.

 

[Myrany]

oh lookie double post monster lands again.

 

[Choc_Addic]

28 is too big of a wire for protank style coil, I guess. I have on order 30 and 32 g wires and will be using cotton.
You may find that ohm calculator called vapor's tool box on android helpful. I will be getting 28 g wires for kayfun lt thou.... it will be a while until kayfun gets here.

Cheers