To be honest I just been snapping pics in the open. I just grabbed a box today that I’m going to line with white paper and use that for photos for now
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To be honest I just been snapping pics in the open. I just grabbed a box today that I’m going to line with white paper and use that for photos for now
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If you don't mind me asking what is it you use to take the photos and for lighting? I only use a mobile phone with a magnifying lens held over the top and for lighting I bought a really cheap photo booth. Only cost 7 quid I think so maybe 10 dollars or thereabouts. Definitely helped with my photos like, get better lighting coverage and it's collapsible so doesn't have to take space up. I leave it in place though just for convenience
Edit. Pic of said light box and magnifying lens
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The clip on macro I got sucks balls. Shit doesn’t even work
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That's not a clip on one that mate, I have to hold it in place between 2 fingers to use it but I've had better results with that than I ever got with a clip on macro lens. I feel like I can get closer to the coil and still be in focus with that 25x loupe
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I just found the light box on eBay... maybe I’ll grab it
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Edit: I just bought the new boxer Dna250c squonk mod this week... gotta weigh the vape budget hands and see what’s up with my photo equipment maybe next week or something.
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Edit: I just bought the new boxer Dna250c squonk mod this week... gotta weigh the vape budget hands and see what’s up with my photo equipment maybe next week or something.
I found it works wonders for your lighting as it can be folded in such a way that the lights are never directed at the coil. The headset the magnifying lens came off looks like this, I intended to use it for coil building but it was absolutely useless lol. Had to be too close to the wire for it to be used properly, but as a macro lens for a phone it's well better. Pretty sure you should be able to find one as a single unit and not pay for the entire thing. I'll have a poke around now and see if I can find a standalone one
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I haven't been able to find a standalone one yet but I did find the same headset for about a 3rd of the price I paid haha should have looked further when I did my search (-_-)
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Yea I've got the same set of useless glasses. Have to be about 2 inches away for any focus. Terrible investment.I found it works wonders for your lighting as it can be folded in such a way that the lights are never directed at the coil. The headset the magnifying lens came off looks like this, I intended to use it for coil building but it was absolutely useless lol. Had to be too close to the wire for it to be used properly, but as a macro lens for a phone it's well better. Pretty sure you should be able to find one as a single unit and not pay for the entire thing. I'll have a poke around now and see if I can find a standalone one
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my goggles came with 4 different lenses, and have two clips to put them in. i use it mostly for the headlight, but the 1.7x lens is also pretty good for working with. it allows me to have my face around a foot away from what im working on, and lets me see what im doing when i go higher than 40..i put the strongest lens in the front holder so i can get it out of my way, but if i fold it down in front of the 1.7x lens i can stop to inspect things quite well, then flip it back up and get back to work.
i was using the folding magnifying glass for my pics (pressed against my phone) for ages, then i recently got this $15 dollar macro kit. the macro is 10x and its ok. the area it can work within is barely big enough to fit an atomizer/coils into, and it can only focus on one coil, or part of a coil, at a time. i end up taking 4 or 5 pics from the same angle with different parts in focus and them stack them/fix it all in photoshop.
for lighting, i just picked up some of these highly mobile desk lamps and for now i have taped parchment paper over them to diffuse the light a bit. they are nice because i can move them where ever i want, and really make sure the shot looks nice before i take the pics, but its kind of a hassle having to find that every time. these lamps were about $10cdn a piece. the bulbs actually cost more by the time it was all done i think...
i was using the folding magnifying glass for my pics (pressed against my phone) for ages, then i recently got this $15 dollar macro kit. the macro is 10x and its ok. the area it can work within is barely big enough to fit an atomizer/coils into, and it can only focus on one coil, or part of a coil, at a time. i end up taking 4 or 5 pics from the same angle with different parts in focus and them stack them/fix it all in photoshop.
for lighting, i just picked up some of these highly mobile desk lamps and for now i have taped parchment paper over them to diffuse the light a bit. they are nice because i can move them where ever i want, and really make sure the shot looks nice before i take the pics, but its kind of a hassle having to find that every time. these lamps were about $10cdn a piece. the bulbs actually cost more by the time it was all done i think...
It might not pick up the best photos. I'd have a look at between 20-30x, saw one before at 40x in the same design
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I thought my magnifying glass was just 3x and 5x, so 10x seemed like a big jump...was afraid something like 25x would focus on too small an area, ah well I'll upgrade again later on if need be
thanksI havent used photoshop in years but have the basics of blending layers (and making lightning bolts lmao) so I guess I might just take lots of pictures and combine them? Some day...after I make a coil clean enough to photograph that way lol
stacking them in photoshop is pretty much automatic. theres a script in the menu to load all the pics into a stack (each pic on its own layer) and align the contents, and theres a blend layers option thats been doing a great job of erasing all the out of focus parts and putting the focused parts up front. i havnt had any need to do anything other than crop the results and compress them (not even curves/color grading).I thought my magnifying glass was just 3x and 5x, so 10x seemed like a big jump...was afraid something like 25x would focus on too small an area, ah well I'll upgrade again later on if need be
I havent used photoshop in years but have the basics of blending layers (and making lightning bolts lmao) so I guess I might just take lots of pictures and combine them? Some day...after I make a coil clean enough to photograph that way lol
most of the important stuff you have to do relates to the pics you are working with. i have had great luck with just 3-5 pics since my very first try with the macro lens/photoshop. i got all full of myself a few nights ago and tried to take like 20 pics and stack them, but i guess half my pics were junk so photoshop made junk out of them
i selected the 4-5 best shots in the stack and blended them into a great pic lol. my camera app has some extra options too. it can save the pics in a raw format, as well as something called exposure bracketing. the raw format has more color info for photoshop to work with, and exposure bracketing takes 4 copies of each picture ranging from overexposed to under, which is even more light info for photoshop to work with. i only tried that format once (the 36/46 alien pic) and i think its a lot richer and nicer looking than the ones i did without exposure bracketing. still deep in experimentation mode with my photo setup.
Just sell to us exclusively to get your feet off the groundClose enough finland lulyeah i think i'm gona have byers i just need to keep my prices competetive and maybe i can expand atleast to whole EU.. but im not hurrying so far im enjoying the bullding
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yeah i think i'm gona have byers i just need to keep my prices competetive and maybe i can expand atleast to whole EU.. but im not hurrying so far im enjoying the bullding 
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Cheap UCs don't hold up like a decent quality one and you'll burn out cheap ones quicker than you may think. If you're gonna sell coils, I recommend throwing 80-100 bucks at a decent one that will last and that does 40KHz and has nice options. Plus you can clean tons of other shit with it, including your wifey / what have you's jewelryNow i made fast dual aliens for bonza for adv wasn't quite enough for 6 wraps but 5 wraps vapes well to. Can you guys recomend good budget ultrasonic cleaner?
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Just my 2 cents from experience.
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Yeah i don't want to buy cheap crap i ment for budget like around 100 but i need good and durable one to really get all of UC and to make it last long and not worry about that it brakesCheap UCs don't hold up like a decent quality one and you'll burn out cheap ones quicker than you may think. If you're gonna sell coils, I recommend throwing 80-100 bucks at a decent one that will last and that does 40KHz and has nice options. Plus you can clean tons of other shit with it, including your wifey / what have you's jewelry
Just my 2 cents from experience.
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Clean!!
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Lovely staggers!
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Couldn’t make up my mind on which pics to use. Shitty quality on them
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Those are stunning colours mate damn
Yeah pretty much my favorite coil so far just lovely flavour i've been strugeling eith my ribbon but i think i'm gona use VG to help stacking them
i've been strugeling eith my ribbon but i think i'm gona use VG to help stacking them
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May I ask which gauges of wire? I will be working on staggering during my free time tomorrow night
26 cores and 36 wrapped
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Do you use a hand drill for the fusing like or do you just get it with the regular drill?
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I use regular drill if you get the grove you can go almost full blast and i squeeze it with nylon pliers every 1 inch to make it really go to the groves and it keeps cores parallelOh that's so damn clean!
And thank you! I'm going to try more cores but for sale i think 3 cores are great
Upto a certain gauge it can be done easily with a cordless drill, the further up the gauges the harder it becomes to do. I've seen a few people who fuse with a hand drill, ohmboy josh and the like. Never used one myself but am interested in whether it would alleviate collapsing cores at the price of speedOh that's so damn clean!
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With multiple cores you just can squeeze them every inch or so with nylon pliers it keeps cores in place and make the erap much more cleanerUpto a certain gauge it can be done easily with a cordless drill, the further up the gauges the harder it becomes to do. I've seen a few people who fuse with a hand drill, ohmboy josh and the like. Never used one myself but am interested in whether it would alleviate collapsing cores at the price of speed
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and yeah i think with higher cores it's easier with hand drill tho.
I have achieved a couple multicore SFC's, I started at kind of a fat gauge for wrap wire though, 32g, with that stuff I could run the drill full speed and have hardly any complications. As I moved up the gauges I realised it was tougher than I initially thought and have taken a step back before I make a proper attempt again. Hopefully I can get them locked down soon enough thoughWith multiple cores you just can squeeze them every inch or so with nylon pliers it keeps cores in place and make the erap much more cleaner
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Very Beautiful. I could look at your photos all day.
Thanks man... I can look at your comments about them all day as well
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You will my dude atleast with 36 yo ustill can do almost fullspeed when you cores are in place trust me when you get it's just as easy as 32I have achieved a couple multicore SFC's, I started at kind of a fat gauge for wrap wire though, 32g, with that stuff I could run the drill full speed and have hardly any complications. As I moved up the gauges I realised it was tougher than I initially thought and have taken a step back before I make a proper attempt again. Hopefully I can get them locked down soon enough though
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but when you go higher than 36 i think thats when you got to go slow
arrived this morning. time to throw a build in and put it through its paces. a fair bit more room to play with compared to my Wasp
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arrived this morning. time to throw a build in and put it through its paces. a fair bit more room to play with compared to my Wasp
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So where's the Build!?
That deck looks so sexyarrived this morning. time to throw a build in and put it through its paces. a fair bit more room to play with compared to my Wasp
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Maybe i should get one fat multicore staggered coils in that would be so good
i meant one fat single coilThat deck looks so sexy
2*28g x36g staggered frames with 3*28g in the middle fuses with 38g all N80.. it's not perfect, but it'll do. 3.0mm and still plenty of room.So where's the Build!?
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pretty much what I was thinkingThat deck looks so sexy
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2*28g x36g staggered frames with 3*28g in the middle fuses with 38g all N80.. it's not perfect, but it'll do. 3.0mm and still plenty of room.
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Looks like it’ll handle a 4ml no probs hows it vape?
nice setup you have there
yeah frames helps alot but how you wrap them? do you use vice ?Can't keep these things from twisting. 6x*4 no frames 36 wrap. Think maybe frames would help the twisting when I coil it?
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I tried wrapping it like machine posted in the video in post18136
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Just a hand job so to speak. Lol
So this was actually a failure turned into a consolation, I used a lower decore than I usually would for this frailer to try to get wavier wraps and the wraps weren't as tight so when I pulled down on one lead the wraps just kinda slipped off. So I ended up with a 3.5 wrap instead of a 4.5. But it will vape.
You really should be framing them... better vape and just easier to deal with man
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Edit: throw on some 28g frames for those 6x .4 , do a dual coil 5 wrap and it’ll be around .14.. amazing vape.
Cool man I appreciate it. I'll get the frames in there and see how that goes.
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Yeah I tried making coils with 3 cores again this morning. I cannot keep them parallel
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Use ribbon wire and make a slider and use paper clips if needed then the biggest tip use nylon pliers to to pinch the wrapped ribbon and to the cores it really makes them so they lock parallel