(head explodes)
It seems staple style coils keeps popping up in this topic. I have no clue how to build this style of coil at all lol. I dont assume I could just outright buy a few of these somewhere?
I also noticed in another topic where others were postin their builds alot of them were building in the .4 to .5 range. Would there not be a difference in flavor/cloud production between those and one built in the .1x range?
Probably you could order them from someone who is willing to custom tailor them to those exact specifications, but I'll emphasize I had no prior experience in coil building at the time when I built these coils, and in fact at that time I hadn't even been vaping for a month yet. Granted, I'm not the clumsiest guy that walks the planet, BUT... this isn't rocket surgery by any stretch of the imagination either...
Here's the original build video tutorial for this particular type of coil build:
However, to build the spaced clapton part, there exist various other techniques that you might prefer. I decided to use the button trick as shown by Coil Mother Fudger on YouTube, but nowadays I prefer to use an adaptation of that method, which goes as follows. Put the spool of 36g wrap wire in a ziploc bag and close the ziploc only 2/3 of the way with the wire sticking out of the ziploc. The bag needs to be big enough for the spool to be able to turn smoothly in there. If the bag is a tad oversized, you can fold the left or right side of the bag and put tape on it to keep the fold in place. Next, put the bag in a box on the floor in such a way that both the bag and the box will keep standing up vertical, and, if needed, tape the bag to the inside of the box for making it stable. Also if needed, add a little extra weight to the box for this same reason. By doing this the 36g wrap wire becomes much easier to guide onto your core wires when compared to just holding the spool of wire with your hand, as now you can just lean your forearms onto your lap and relax whilst you concentrate on trying to use The Force.
Here's another tip... if you're having trouble tying the button up like shown in Coil Mother Fudger's video, you can use a bit of tape to hold the button in place and then remove the tape again after the tying it up part's finished, and, during the tying it up part, pull both ends of the little piece of wire away from each other with equal tension as you twist the ends together, turn by turn by turn. As a final extra step in my adaptation of the button trick, I tie a small weight to the button by using a bit of tying wire that I pull through the lowermost hole in the button to prevent the button from wanting to start shaking as I speed my drill up to medium speed.
Wearing two pairs of plastic 3× magnification reading glasses stacked one in front of the other and leaving about 3/4 inch distance in between them (or wearing a pair of magnifying goggles, if you have them...) whilst sitting in a comfortable position leaning onto your lap like I explained above will enable you to concentrate and focus on guiding the 36g wrap wire into each space of the spaced clapton frames. For that part of this build, some people prefer to use a hand drill instead of a powered one, but personally, I, prefer to just use my Milwaukee M18 Fuel FPD-0 cordless drill on everything. Actually I wanted to get a Fiskars Rotary Craft 85167097J hand drill (not to be confused with the 85116984J version, as that one is a completely worthless shit toy). But I live across the pond (Europe) and I still couldn't find this drill anywhere around here having searched fanatically for it a few times on the internet so anyway... to hell with that.
EDIT: As long as you make sure that the spaced clapton is built loosely enough that you can slide the 36g wire over the core wire back and forth all along the entire length, you shouldn't experience any trouble keeping the two frames properly aligned with each other, i.e., you'll find that the spaces of one frame will automatically stay lined up with the spaces of the other as you progess.