Woohoo! I did it! I made my first coil!!!!

[SemoJD]

LIFE is GOOOOOD!!!

My Kanthal 26 gauge arrived today (along with the extra cotton I ordered) and I couldn't wait to try to build my very first coil! Just a simple 5 turns on the screwdriver shaft....checked the ohms....a very sweet 0.6....wicked, primed, fired it up on my subox Mini

Ooops...forgot to put the cap on the deck....

Blew the excess juice out, put the cap on and I'm happily vaping away with 99' 6" of Kanthal left! (And 100' of 28 gauge Kanthal coming soon).

I am one happy camper!

Just wanted to share with y'all

JD

 

[PaulBHC]

Congrats you are on your way.

 

[VHRB2014]

Yap, you are stepping into real freedom now. Up up and away!

 

[r77r7r]

Sounds great, good job!

 

[sketchness]

Build your own is where real savings kick in! $10ish a year for coils and wick if you waste a bunch and change coils every three days.

Congrats! Welcome down the rabbit hole.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

LOL, that's pretty much how I felt when I made my first coil. Nice going!

 

[Ryedan]

Way to go @SemoJD!!

 

[Two_Bears]

LIFE is GOOOOOD!!!

My Kanthal 26 gauge arrived today (along with the extra cotton I ordered) and I couldn't wait to try to build my very first coil! Just a simple 5 turns on the screwdriver shaft....checked the ohms....a very sweet 0.6....wicked, primed, fired it up on my Subox Mini

Ooops...forgot to put the cap on the deck....

Blew the excess juice out, put the cap on and I'm happily vaping away with 99' 6" of Kanthal left! (And 100' of 28 gauge Kanthal coming soon).

I am one happy camper!

Just wanted to share with y'all

JD

Congrats. I bet it was much easier than you expected.

I wish more people would dip their Toe into rebuilding.

Myself i wrap 8 wraps around a 2 mn Shaft with 26 gauge to give me .79-.84 resistance.

 

[Two_Bears]

Yap, you are stepping into real freedom now. Up up and away!

Yep. Only 1 frontier left DIY Ejuice.

 

[Two_Bears]

Build your own is where real savings kick in! $10ish a year for coils and wick if you waste a bunch and change coils every three days.

Congrats! Welcome down the rabbit hole.

Or Dry burn the Kanthal when changing wicks can get 3 months out of a coil.

I spend 25-40 cents for a year of coils and changing Rayon wicks every week.

I prefer single coil but if Someone prefers dual coils double that price quoted.

 

[dobroeutro]

Sweet, congratz!

 

[r055co]

Congratulations and welcome to the Rabbit Hole! Building is for me fun, relaxing and being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor is a Zen moment

I'm on Fused Clapton kick and that's pretty much all I Vape on. I even spin up 32x2/38 or 34x2/40 fused Clapton for my Tootie Puffers, flavor is amazing.

Best wire I've found is

Kidney Puncher
Atomizer Wick
Pure Atomist
Temco

Don't waste your time with crap wire and no, wire isn't just wire. There is a difference and quality wire isn't expensive.

Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

 

[daviedog]

Step1- getting rid of smokes.
Step2- getting rid of factory coils.
Step3- getting rid of (what's in it) juice.
Step4- making your first Mod.

Result,,smoke free & Govt. free..

 

[Str8vision]

Congratulations! Switching to RBAs is very wise move especially in light of today's malignant legislative environment. There's a bit of a learning curve but once you get the hang of it building, wicking, dry burning and re-wicking coils is quite easy. You'll enjoy -far- better flavor at a fraction of the cost of using factory coil heads of dubious quality. I Vape NETs (hard on wicks/coils) and switched to using RBAs years ago. I use TEMCo 26ga Kanthal a1 and wind it around the stem of a #40 drill bit to build fused micro coils. Caught it on sale last year and bought a 1000' spool for $15, enough to build 3000 micro coils (more than a lifetime's supply). A finicky flavor chaser, I build dual coil setups @ 0.4 - 0.5 ohms and for NETs I re-wick daily using organic Japanese cotton. Three years ago I paid $5 for a package with 200 pads, enough to wick 7200 micro coils. NETs are a high maintenance juice, I re-wick/dry-burn daily replacing my coils every two to three weeks yet even using the highest quality supplies available it only costs around $0.75 a year to do so. Better flavor, quality, reliability, almost cost free and totally exempt from government extortion schemes like PA's 40% vape tax.

 

[BreSha6869]

Congrats!

I started building my own almost a year and and haven't looked back.

I even went crazy and bought well over 2000 feet total of wire including various claptons and 22-32g SS, nichrome and kanthal trying to find what works for me and am still ahead of the game. $100-200 spent MAYBE for a couple of lifetimes of wire for my wife and I and MAYBE $30-40 in cotton/rayon. We were spending about $150 a week on smokes, so whatevs.

 

[57chilicat]

Awesomeness! CONGRATS!

 

[MMW]

Welcome to the party!

 

[SemoJD]

Thank you all for the good words and encouragement. When I tried the RBA with the already-installed coil, I knew that I would be building my own coils. The flavor from factory coils on my Subox Mini just doesn't compare. So I was happy to see how easy it was to make my own.

And yes, down the rabbit hole I go. I'll be getting all the doo-dads (coil jig, dedicated ohm-reader, etc) I just know it. Then pretty soon, I'd like to start mixing my own. I've found a number of brands of ejuice that I love (Grindhouse Sublime is sinfully addicting for me, LOL) but I do want to make my own and see how that goes.

That's the cool thing about vaping. So many options, so many ways to go with it.

JD

 

[Zutankhamun]

Congrats over here too.

I must warn you though. It just goes on and on from here on out.
I want;
A different gauge now,
A different wire material,
Different ko-jen-do, rayon, silica, muji...
New rtas and drippers.
DIY or store bought?
Mechs,

But welcome all the same. It's always good to have another.

 

[bacc.vap]

WOOHOO!!!