This may be of interest to those of you making Ni200 coils for use with a temperature control mod.
If you've watched Busardo's latest video on the DNA40, at some point he complains that the automatic coilers available on the market today (Kuro Koiler, Coil Master and others) aren't suitable to make coils with spaced wraps - which are indeed better for nickel coils. He also says the machine screw method is a PITA. Here's the section of the video in question:
Well, he's right. So I figured I'd share my own little tool to make spaced wraps coils. I named it the Nicoiler - since its primary use is to wrap nickel coils for temperature control mods - and you can make one yourself at home for very cheap too!
Here it is:
As you can see, it's just a rod with one end curled up for easy manipulation, and a barrel with a guiding tooth that slides onto it. Two simple parts, that's it. Totally no-nonsense. Mine makes 2.5 mm diameter coils.
Here's a video of the thing in action:
If you want to make one, you just need to find a straight rod of the diameter of your choosing (mine comes from the core of an old arc welding rod), drill a hole of the same diameter through a round barrel of some kind, file a tooth on one end, and cut a narrow slit to guide the wire almost at the edge of the tooth with a hobby saw.
Here are closeups of the tooth:
The slit is 0.5 mm wide (the width of the hobby saw's blade) and the overhanging "lip" is 0.3 mm thick. In other words, it can guide wires up to 0.5 mm thick, and provided the barrel is pushed properly against the previous wrap while coiling, the gap between the wraps is 0.3 mm.
I also use it to make touching wrap coils: all I have to do is heat up the spaced coil it's just produced and compress it with a pair of pliers. It's an extra step, but considering that I didn't have to pay a dime for my gizmo, I'm okay with that.
I hope this'll inspire you to make your own
If you've watched Busardo's latest video on the DNA40, at some point he complains that the automatic coilers available on the market today (Kuro Koiler, Coil Master and others) aren't suitable to make coils with spaced wraps - which are indeed better for nickel coils. He also says the machine screw method is a PITA. Here's the section of the video in question:
Well, he's right. So I figured I'd share my own little tool to make spaced wraps coils. I named it the Nicoiler - since its primary use is to wrap nickel coils for temperature control mods - and you can make one yourself at home for very cheap too!
Here it is:
As you can see, it's just a rod with one end curled up for easy manipulation, and a barrel with a guiding tooth that slides onto it. Two simple parts, that's it. Totally no-nonsense. Mine makes 2.5 mm diameter coils.
Here's a video of the thing in action:
If you want to make one, you just need to find a straight rod of the diameter of your choosing (mine comes from the core of an old arc welding rod), drill a hole of the same diameter through a round barrel of some kind, file a tooth on one end, and cut a narrow slit to guide the wire almost at the edge of the tooth with a hobby saw.
Here are closeups of the tooth:
The slit is 0.5 mm wide (the width of the hobby saw's blade) and the overhanging "lip" is 0.3 mm thick. In other words, it can guide wires up to 0.5 mm thick, and provided the barrel is pushed properly against the previous wrap while coiling, the gap between the wraps is 0.3 mm.
I also use it to make touching wrap coils: all I have to do is heat up the spaced coil it's just produced and compress it with a pair of pliers. It's an extra step, but considering that I didn't have to pay a dime for my gizmo, I'm okay with that.
I hope this'll inspire you to make your own
