There's a half rotation throughout about a foot of wire , this shouldnt be an issue, right?
nope. you can untwist that as you wrap your coils on the coil jig. i never bother to straighten the wire out first, and most of my round wire builds will finish with a twist or two at the very least.
Here's really my first attempt at a staple helix variation.
hey man you are back! nice stapled helix. it hurts a bit to see the ribbon flip like that, but your work is clean as hell. stapled helix is a time consuming build, and it looks like you got all the fuse perfect. welcome back, hope you are feeling better man
Been on painkillers for a messed up foot and it's playing with my ability to concentrate :/
was wondering where you were at. did you wreck your foot fighting with the pricks at the post office? its been kinda quiet in here without you and
@Shredtravolta on the front lines.
My fucked up attempt at a ridged SSFC.
damn that looks like a tough one too. this is a painful page of super complex ribbon builds that flipped
I had just as much length of messed up wire as I did successful wire haha. The first foot or so I could NOT get the cores to stay parallel and my wraps suffered. I kept trying to use a paperclip to help and once I got the cores to lay flat and the wraps to start the rest went so smooooth. Honestly, pulling that off has put me in a great mood today! haha, its the little things
yeah it can cost a lot of wire to learn how to alien wrap or pull off a tougher build, but its not wasted wire as long as you keep going until you get the build to work. i find that i can fail a build a few times, never having any success, then ill hit it once and rarely, if ever, fail it again. its impossible, until its not any more...and yeah its a great feeling vaping on your first aliens or whatever you are struggling with
you might be up there with
@Pegleg Meg in the race for fastest to hit aliens btw. she came in here on parallel round wire and got to alien in nine days i think it was. seems to me you came in a week or so ago and now heres your first aliens
will have to get the officials to measure, but it looks like you are in the top 5 at least from where i am sitting.
wire order didn't make it this weekend :/ needed a new build so figured I'd give SSFC a try.. 2*26g / 6* .3x.1 / 32g / 38g all n80.. wish I'd had some 34 or 36 for the stagger, but came out alright I suppose.
very nice work for a first try at such a hard build
great work everyone. this page is a solemn reminder that ribbon can go bad on us, but its also full of lessons learned and some great success
hand wrapping is more fun hehe
3 core alien wire! There's a half rotation throughout about a foot of wire , this shouldnt be an issue, right? Its also not super straight, this shouldn't be too much of an issue right? I don't want to damage the wraps trying to fix something that doesn't need it. Anyways here's pics!!
