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domenic143!

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Need sum tricks and tips to see if I'm not angling this alien right or what I am my worst critic tho to the looks just don't seem all that and I'm always asking for better but yea
lil bit of feed back would be great thanks View attachment 35868
 

scarecrowjenkins

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I can't see the photo, but i can point you towards what i see as the most common mistakes.
~make sure that you wrap the initial clapton in the opposite direction as you wrap the cores.
~if the cores bunch together, then the alien wire was stretched too far. If you stretched it too far, then you gotta use another piece, there's no going back. Either that or your swivels are janky.
~if the alien wire goes onto the cores in some crazy pattern, then it wasn't stretched enough. This can often be mitigated by simply squeezing the wire a little tighter while you feed it onto the cores.
~i hold my alien wire about 8-10 inches from the cores while i feed it on, i let the drill do the hard work.
~if your cores are tight and the alien wire is stretched properly, usually about 40°-45° is a good angle for me to hold the wire when feeding it on.
~holding the wire away from the cores lets the wire kinda self-adjust it's own tension and allows them to drop into place where they want to.
Hope that helps!

These are the aliens i'm vaping on as i type this-28g/40g
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domenic143!

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Thanks appreciate it wasn't sure if you would be able to zoom on the pic but i did sank the steps right I kinda think that's what I'm doing is that my angle is off on it only thing I could think of that or bunching them together to tight like if I was building a staple wire
 

scarecrowjenkins

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I bend each core to fit between the teeth in the drill, and loop the far end through the loop in the swivel, making sure the cores stay flat and parallel from front to back. Here's a pretty good turorial, maybe it'll help a little:
 

domenic143!

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Yea I've watched this one before the guys deff good I just don't really care for the swivel method unless I absolutely have to I think it takes all the fun from it just my opinion I'm moot taking that way from any one else who does use em
 

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