Where do you build coils?

[Tbaggerr]

[h=5]So I do my coil building at my bedroom desk and have realized that it is probably not the best place to do it. For the 10th+ time, I just had to dig a small chunk of kanthal out of my foot. I need to find a better place to build. Thinking I might have to build a shop table in my garage. Where do you guys do your building and do you have the same kanthal sliver issues I have been plagued with?[/h]

 

[redsox]

on the toilet with a cold beer

 

[Nikkita6]

I build my coils on the kitchen table, or on a dining tray in the living room.

 

[Zealous]

I think I'm unusual but I build mine in my chair or on the couch while watching TV. I have a little box on the table next to the couch that has all the coil building stuff in it & I usually just use a plate as a table lol. As for the Kantal, I used to get annoyed when I'd find pieces of it near where I sit. That hasn't happened in a while though now that I'm doing micro coils since they don't need to be built nearly as often & I usually get them right the first time.

 

[JoeDerty]

kitchen table so i can see the big screen! plus thats just where my best lighting is in the house

 

[JonnyB88]

If not at the coffee table, I build in my bedroom. My dresser is chest-high, so it makes for a perfect building station.

But, I learned the hard way (well, my foot did) in regards to scrap kanthal all over. So, now, when I trim it I hold the loose piece before cutting to prevent it from flying off into the unknown.

 

[Vicshalls]

I do more at the kitchen table. I don't get the slivers. I use a pair of nail clippers and hold my thumb over the opening on them to keep the slivers from flying all over the place.

 

[Myrany]

Sitting at my computer desk actually. Best lighting in the house.

 

[Jarbs]

Sitting at my computer desk actually. Best lighting in the house.

of course you do it at your computer desk wow nerd =P
(i do the same for the same reason)

 

[Tbaggerr]

I try to keep them from flying everywhere but some always seem to escape. And with the glow of 3 monitors, my desk is also the best lit place in the house. lol

 

[Zealous]

I try to keep them from flying everywhere but some always seem to escape. And with the glow of 3 monitors, my desk is also the best lit place in the house. lol

If you do that twist thing to break them off then you don't have that problem. Of course sometimes the wire doesn't want to cooperate but most of the time I have good luck these days.

 

[UncleChimney]

I do it right on the kitchen counter. It works well because the counter as well as the floor are white which makes it easy to spot wayward kanthal and there is a trash can 2 steps away.

 

[Vaslovik]

Sitting at my computer desk actually. Best lighting in the house.

Same here, and that's where all my vaping stuff is.

 

[VaperGlock]

I build my coils on the kitchen table, or on a dining tray in the living room.

That's where I do mine. In the living room in a TV tray.

 

[HauntedMyst]

Where do you build coils?

In my underground vape lair before I go out and fight crime.

 

[Underwhelmed]

I do it right on the kitchen counter. It works well because the counter as well as the floor are white which makes it easy to spot wayward kanthal and there is a trash can 2 steps away.

I do mine at the kitchen counter as well, usually just to the right of the sink. I trim everything over the sink so it doesn't end up in the floor.

I figure if I should happen to start a fire with the torch, near the sink is the best place to be.

 

[Tbaggerr]

If you do that twist thing to break them off then you don't have that problem. Of course sometimes the wire doesn't want to cooperate but most of the time I have good luck these days.

I tried that but I usually use 4 strands of 32 gauge twisted and it doesn't like to break off. lol

 

[JBL-37]

In my man cave/hobby room. It's a multi purposed room, I build my coils and mix my juice there. I also build and repair rc helicopters (one of my other sicknesses) I have tables everywhere full of everything you could think of and desk full of tools and lights if I had a fridge in there I'd never have to come out

 

[Mrs C]

I do them at my computer desk. The clippers I use for the wire have a guard that keeps the scraps from flying out. I use one of a couple of ashtrays I didn't get rid of (my kids made them in art class years ago) for scraps.

 

[spawnsharks]

I usually build at my kitchen table, on a shop towel to keep small parts from rolling/bouncing.