Anybody feeling me on this?
Hear me out. I mostly love this atty. The airflow is perfect and so is the bore on the drip tip (though proprietary bores tend to annoy me to no end.) It's got a nice, deep drip well and a reasonably spacious deck/barrel. For a cheap atty, the machining and fit for all of the components is lovely.
So why, of all things, did they screw up the screws and screw holes so badly? They all have to be fouled or they will cut wire to hell. Forget building with 28g on the thing.
Even with the screws fouled, they still back out like nothing I've ever seen. Touch the coils and the screws give out. The holes for them are too deep, so there's always that extraordinarily delicate line between having your coils secure, and snapping them at the base because it's pulling that wire wayyy down in there before it's fully secure. And then you go to fix your coils just the littlest bit - just a little squeeze and whoops! It snapped.
The screws getting loose also causes another problem over time. The threads strip out. I can't tell you how many times I've changed them these past 3 months alone.
This also causes connection issues between the screws and the posts. I've noticed that all of my builds on this thing ohm cooler by .02-.03 ohms more than the same build will read on any other atty I've worked with.
I understand that it's a cheap atty, but screws have got to be the dumbest thing to skimp on. I've always felt like I couldn't recommend it simply for all of the headache it has caused me. I've never, on any other atty had to wrap 6 coils to make a dual.
Am I just going crazy here? Am I stupid? Or am I simply unlucky? All three?
Hear me out. I mostly love this atty. The airflow is perfect and so is the bore on the drip tip (though proprietary bores tend to annoy me to no end.) It's got a nice, deep drip well and a reasonably spacious deck/barrel. For a cheap atty, the machining and fit for all of the components is lovely.
So why, of all things, did they screw up the screws and screw holes so badly? They all have to be fouled or they will cut wire to hell. Forget building with 28g on the thing.
Even with the screws fouled, they still back out like nothing I've ever seen. Touch the coils and the screws give out. The holes for them are too deep, so there's always that extraordinarily delicate line between having your coils secure, and snapping them at the base because it's pulling that wire wayyy down in there before it's fully secure. And then you go to fix your coils just the littlest bit - just a little squeeze and whoops! It snapped.
The screws getting loose also causes another problem over time. The threads strip out. I can't tell you how many times I've changed them these past 3 months alone.
This also causes connection issues between the screws and the posts. I've noticed that all of my builds on this thing ohm cooler by .02-.03 ohms more than the same build will read on any other atty I've worked with.
I understand that it's a cheap atty, but screws have got to be the dumbest thing to skimp on. I've always felt like I couldn't recommend it simply for all of the headache it has caused me. I've never, on any other atty had to wrap 6 coils to make a dual.
Am I just going crazy here? Am I stupid? Or am I simply unlucky? All three?