Double twisted wire

[mhodgey]

Hey guys , this is my first post, and I'm glad to be apart of this forum
Anyways, today I was thinking, and I'm sure it's been done before, but I took a regular strand of twisted 26 gauge kanthal and twisted it one more time. This build is easily my most favorite build I've ever hit flavor wise and cloud wise. Do any of you guys share my love for twisted wire?

 

[STAINLESS1]

nice! I have been building with twisted in several different gauges 24, 26, 28 just fooling around. they really bring the flavor, but it takes a bit for me to get them firing together evenly. I am sure once I get a needle torch to preheat them, that will get easier to do.

 

[MrScaryZ]

Hey guys , this is my first post, and I'm glad to be apart of this forum
Anyways, today I was thinking, and I'm sure it's been done before, but I took a regular strand of twisted 26 gauge kanthal and twisted it one more time. This build is easily my most favorite build I've ever hit flavor wise and cloud wise. Do any of you guys share my love for twisted wire?

Once I did not have any other wire so I grabbed 8 strands of 32g and wrapped it in a big freaking crazy ass thing... it worked great
Yeah I love twisted

 

[Rob James]

Just twisted my first coils, did 26 gauge 6 wraps dual ended up with .3 ohms and DAMN Flavor for days!

 

[robot zombie]

I used to do a lot of twisted builds in my early days.One of my favorites was a twisted 28g quad-coil build.

That build takes me back. One of my first builds ever was a .4 ohm double twisted 28g single coil. It looked a lot like that one, actually.

I did something the other day that was pretty nifty. If you take a single twisted strand that's just a bit more than enough for two coils, fold it over itself, and slowly twist it in the opposite direction that you did the first time, the strands eventually merge to form a spiraling, square-shaped braid. It's tricky to get them to mesh evenly, though. You have to keep maximum tension and you don't stop when the wire snaps. You have to stop when they mesh evenly. If you keep going, they'll start clumping up in spots.

Once you get it up and running, it holds more juice than a clapton does. It's a mean-ass coil.

These days, I've been shying away from twisted wire in favor of claptons. The reason for doing so comes down to throat hit. Twisted wire give similar flavor, but it's harsher.

 

[nabibrian]

Just as @robot zombie described, this is what I do.
To avoid the clumps in the spots as described, I take some needle nose pliers and with the smooth part on the inside that clamps down on the wire (if that makes sense) I run the drill and with easy pressure squeeze all they way down the length of the twisted wire and this helps smooth out any of the clumps in the twist.

 

[joeyboy]

Crap, I am going to have to try to make twisted 26g now.

Good thing you aren't posting danish recipes. I would be baking.

 

[dwalters719]

when you twisted strands together can I still use steam engine to get the same ohms. or does it get reduce or add since its twisted?

 

[STAINLESS1]

It reduces resistance in my experience.

 

[snake94115]

I like using 32g for my triple twisted dual coils that I make for my IGO-W2 as the thinner gauge wire heats up faster.They are a complete P.I.T.A. to make but I love them for the nice warm flavor.

 

[JERUS]

when you twisted strands together can I still use steam engine to get the same ohms. or does it get reduce or add since its twisted?

Screw around with it on steam-engine. But, seems to me it basically creates a -2g change. So a twisted 26 is like a standard 24, or there about, but cooler (both meanings of the word).

http://www.steam-engine.org/coil.asp?tp=1&s=dp&r=0.2&awg=24&id=2.5&ll=8
http://www.steam-engine.org/coil.asp?p=roundmulti&tp=1.25&s=dp&r=0.2&str=2&awg=26&id=2.5&ll=8