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.
Ok, so a higher number gauge means a finer wire? Because, as I was doing the dry-burning, of course I really looked at the coil, and that is some very fine wire. Does that video also tell you how to get that out of there? Because I really looked, while dry-burning, and honestly I can't imagine how to get it out of there, without resorting to the tip of an ice pick and brute force, just gouge it out of there -- but then how to get something back in? I can't really see how it's attached in there.
I have one coil, as I said, that I think is just toast; I checked the two misbehaving ones again just now, and one of them is almost certainly just gone; it's now registering 3.2 ohms. The other one, I finally remembered to check the ohms, and it's still registering at 2.6 ohms, so it may not be toast, but it most definitely is leaking, and I can't for the life of me figure out why; I even put in a couple more strands of cotton, so now it has 5 strands for the flavor wick, but it puts a drop of ejuice right on the top of the battery and gurgles immediately. I took it back off (to put on the sole remaining functional coil I have), and as it sits, it even leaks a drop onto the counter. I just have no earthly idea what to do with that one. The same is true of the ARO coil that I *thought* was now working; it really seemed alright when I tested it yesterday, but this morning, leaked a drop right onto the battery, so I know it's from the coil itself, not the seal around the base. Just completely perplexed.
I do have 3 more coils coming, but alas I think it'll be Monday, they seem to still be in florida. Just hoping this last working coil will keep its act together till Monday. And I think my idea of switching over to cartomizers rather than using tanks all the time is a really good idea; nothing to dry-burn, nothing to rebuild, nothing to wonder, 'why is it doing that?' and having no idea and being unable to find *anything* to tell me what's happening or why or what to do about it. I keep asking questions about why is this, and why is that, and I keep hearing the same answers, but nothing is working for those coils that just insist on leaking.
If I wasn't really serious about sticking with this and not smoking, I'd probably have given up already, this is so intensely frustrating. As it is, I wonder if I'm going to end up having to just cold-turkey it. I really hope not; I know I did it once before for 3 months, but then gave in and went back to smoking, which I absolutely don't want to do. I'll get some cartos, and see if they can keep me from this level of frustration with all these "moving parts" that just refuse to behave. I'd rather spend $5-6$-ish for 5 cartos that will work properly for some length of time, than $5 for 3 coils that work for 2 wks and then just stop, or start leaking, or etc, while offering the promise of "rebuilding" to someone who may not be capable of that level of mechanical ability, if I can't even figure out how to make them stop leaking. Really it all just makes me want to cry, like I'm just throwing good money after bad, building up my hopes over something that refuses over and over to work right; I just feel like crawling in a hole and pulling it in after me -- just wake me up when the cigarette addiction is over. That fantasy of "going to sleep and never waking up again" looks so attractive, though for some reason the stupid body always insists on waking up again, and then I have to deal with this caca all over again.
Andria
