I'm having one hell of a time trying to figure this build out and figured it would be a better use of my time to cast a line here and see if I can't find some help rather than burn through all of the rest of my prepped materials in vain (again).
I'm following my typical alien coil build that I always use and my technique is pretty good (3x26ga core wires, 36ga de-cored clapton) so I'm just completely dumbfounded on why I just can't get this build to work since it's essentially the same damn thing except that I'm inserting a 40ga wire into the decored 36ga prior to stretching it out.
I can't seem to catch a groove on the "re-wrapping in the opposite direction the Clapton was done" step and can't get the de-cored section with the stitch to lay flat against the core wires...it just keeps turning into a tangled knotted mess or pulls my cores into the dreaded triangle configuration rather than staying flat and parallel.
I always prep 10 sections of de-cored clapton and straighten out 30 pieces of wire which I then tape together in 3's for my prep work and I'm getting tired of burning through all of that prep work and not having a single useable coil to show for the effort and was wondering if maybe someone knows a trick or some bit of info that could help me correct this issue.
Any help at all would be a great help...thanks in advance!
Oh, and this is the tutorial I've been going off of for this build with the only difference being that I free hand rather than use a swivel system setup, so, this is the technique I'm using...maybe there's another one that I don't know of that works better?
You're not drinking water are you?! You realize that stuff is found in antifreeze!?!
I'm following my typical alien coil build that I always use and my technique is pretty good (3x26ga core wires, 36ga de-cored clapton) so I'm just completely dumbfounded on why I just can't get this build to work since it's essentially the same damn thing except that I'm inserting a 40ga wire into the decored 36ga prior to stretching it out.
I can't seem to catch a groove on the "re-wrapping in the opposite direction the Clapton was done" step and can't get the de-cored section with the stitch to lay flat against the core wires...it just keeps turning into a tangled knotted mess or pulls my cores into the dreaded triangle configuration rather than staying flat and parallel.
I always prep 10 sections of de-cored clapton and straighten out 30 pieces of wire which I then tape together in 3's for my prep work and I'm getting tired of burning through all of that prep work and not having a single useable coil to show for the effort and was wondering if maybe someone knows a trick or some bit of info that could help me correct this issue.
Any help at all would be a great help...thanks in advance!
Oh, and this is the tutorial I've been going off of for this build with the only difference being that I free hand rather than use a swivel system setup, so, this is the technique I'm using...maybe there's another one that I don't know of that works better?
You're not drinking water are you?! You realize that stuff is found in antifreeze!?!