I'd vape on it!So this is my first attempt groove fusing anything. I did a groove fused staple/staggerton coil. It's not perfect but it's not so horrible that I would throw it away and not vape it. I figured out your clapton has to be really tight on the first pass for your fuse to stay consistent on the second pass. It's always great to learn new tricks
Thanks Peg! I can alien all day but trying staple staggered fused claptons is my current downfall. Last attempt it seemed okay until I tried to wrap it
Woohoo! Nice job!! How long did it take you to do the final wrap? I swear I spent like 30 minutes on mine! Looks great! It's a bitch to wrap though.I made my first one today too!
I've never flipped my drill into reverse so many times lmao, I would have probably given up trying to get it clean but I was making it for someone else, that's good motivation
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I was out of time after that so haven't gotten to wrap it yet
Woohoo! Nice job!! How long did it take you to do the final wrap? I swear I spent like 30 minutes on mine! Looks great! It's a bitch to wrap though.
Time for some Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout!
Nice aliens! Great job!!
From the inventor of the button trick, here's a cool video that teaches how to cure the heebie jeebies.
I saw that one. I wasn't sure about how to hook the loop around everything and think I got it wrong now that this video has a better close up of what's going on. I'll try again tomorrow for sure
looking good to me shred. a version of those are my new favorite squonk coils shred. if you look at the coil while squeezing your bottle, you can watch all the little holes wick juice up into them. I have the one in my squonk and a spare until I get more 40g.So this is my first attempt groove fusing anything. I did a groove fused staple/staggerton coil. It's not perfect but it's not so horrible that I would throw it away and not vape it. I figured out your clapton has to be really tight on the first pass for your fuse to stay consistent on the second pass. It's always great to learn new tricks
Thank you so much! You're very kind!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heebie-jeebiesHey...I watched it again, first time was to see the spacing trick, this time I payed attention to prepping everything and wrapping but I have to ask you-
What are the heebie jeebies,
And did my ssfc have them?!
Do you mean turning the stick into a coil and it bending out of shape?
This is the video I followed! Well one of them but the only thing that didn't work for me were the clothes pins - only ones I had were big and too heavy. But yeah that video is gold.
Oh I'm still on the struggle bus, trust me. It's just that soon I might be able to get off of it! It's funny, when I see a cassette tape now I'm like hmmm, will it fraple?well there was a page or two back a few weeks ago with a bunch of wobbly staples and misery, and here we are with a bunch of great looking staple variants. you guys are doing great work in here every day
Yeah I've noticed for me it is much easier to alien with SS vs Ni80. I'd do it more often but I usually stick with Ni80 to keep the resistance up a tad.
once you hit a clean set like that one you just posted, its usually up hill from thereOh I'm still on the struggle bus, trust me. It's just that soon I might be able to get off of it! It's funny, when I see a cassette tape now I'm like hmmm, will it fraple?
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When I did my first own coil build (back in February last year) that video wasn't available yet... only the button trick was (and also of course Squidoode's video tutorial of the staple staggered fused clapton). I did know about someone else on YouTube using mini clothespins in some other type of coil build, but I can't remember who it was or which coil build, and, what I ended up doing instead was I used a 1 inch key ring with small pieces of masking tape attached to it in such a way that the masking tape was acting like a cushion between the key ring and the spaced claptons. The masking tape prevented the key ring from kinking up the spaced claptons, and also it prevented the key ring from wanting to easily slide off of the spaced claptons because it gave the key ring some better grip. One of the first things I bought when I decided to give coil building a try was a roll of masking tape. Masking tape is dirt cheap, yet, depending how you use it, it can be worth its weight in gold.
Great tip on the masking tape. Was looking local for Plasti dip of some sort. But have tape on hand.
Just enough tension to keep the cores snug is all the tension you need. If they're not pulled snug they will almost certainly collapse, but if you use too much tension, then you'll only put more stress on the swivel, which will then start to twist the cores together, and, together = same thing as "bunched up" so you don't want that.
the harder you pull the drill, the less your swivels spin, so it is kinda related.
With framed staples I see absolutely no harm in using a bunch of sliders. But with aliens the sliders are a major PITA because you have to stop the drill to move them, and, starting the drill back up again without immediately causing a flurb has never been an easy thing for me to do (with 28g Ni80 cores and 38g Ni80 alien wrap wire─which is how I made my first own alien coil build about one week after I got into building my own coils) so I guess aliens tend to be a different breed.
Ah ok. I can see that. Especially when you have a good run going who wants to stop.
What?? Making another stick and the stagger got janky on me so I cut that loss and had enough to mess with it still. And whaddya know. Got some inconsistency but I think I got the flow.
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Word! I bet by tomorrow you'll have it down flawless!What?? Making another stick and the stagger got janky on me so I cut that loss and had enough to mess with it still. And whaddya know. Got some inconsistency but I think I got the flow.
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Not sure about you but after my wife goes to work tonight it's going to be an attempt at ssfc. You ever knock one down and think damn what's next.
It's not just that. The faster you spin the drill, the more forcefully the outer cores are slamming the wraps into place so it becomes a lot more forgiving as a result, and that is despite I agree it doesn't appear like it makes a whole lot of logical sense─until after you've actually tried it... so believe it or not, the slow speed at which you start the drill back up again after every pause is what's causing the most trouble (that is, if all the prep work is done right, your swivels aren't shitty, you aren't using too much tension on the drill, and you're using no real tension on the stretched decore).
Vape for build night
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Same stick I made the other day, just in an rda now
I'm building on this rda every way Except how it was designed lmao
I wrapped the second coil backwards, and used the same two holes for both coils
not used to wrapping with pliers yet
Well, not last time, it was fiddly but got the shorts out
This time wrapping the second coil backwards was an accident...lol
I will say, no shorting issue if you just use two holes lol
I like how I can drip without taking it off, and the notch means it wont ever get stuck on my mod
