Cleaning Wire Prior to Wrapping

[VaporOwl]

So I was watching a video by twisted messes about making zipper coils and he mentions cleaning the wire with soap to remove metal dust after twisting and flattening.

I torch my coils with a butane torch prior to installing them in my atomizer, making sure to heat every single part of the wire, even parts that I eventually clip off.

Is another cleaning stage necessary for safety reason?

Link to the video:

It's rather long and I think he mentions cleaning around 12 minutes or 15:50. I can't quite remember.

Hoot.

 

[Roger Schaeffer]

Sounds like a step worth taking for that kind of coil to me

 

[VaporOwl]

Is soap going to do anything to help? I guess torching it might just melt the dust in or something?

 

[VH fan]

I used to torch my coils before installation but now i just wrap them , stick them in there and apply power and eliminate the hot spots by sticking a drill bit through the coil .

It gets cleaned that way and it performs identical for me , with limited deck space i heat and compact the coil but thats about it.

 

[M5amhan]

he only cleans them because when he flattens it with the toothless pliers that pulls off metal shards and they stick on the wire. dont want to be vaping that but for normal builds no need to do that

 

[VH fan]

Guess i should of watched the video but i never do , thanks for the info .

 

[BoomStick]

I use a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol on it, fold it around the wire, pinch and pull the wire through a couple times. I don't know where the wires been. I can tell by the way the cotton ball slides down the wire the first time compared to the way it feels the second and third time I have cleaned something off the wire. Don't know what it was but its gone now.

 

[VaporOwl]

My question pertains to twisted wire. VH I like to torch my coils before I mount them because the torch heats all of the wire. In the atomizer deck the parts of the wire that are in the posts don't get red-orange-white hot like the middle of the coil does.

I like the alcohol cotton ball idea BoomStick.