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My coil grave yard is far and wide
IMHO, why bother saving wire, when Kanthal is so cheap to buy.
Its not about money, if you build alot and some of us for no reason at all seem too keep small useless strands for some reason after cleaning up, like a hoarder keeps things they will never use..."just in case"
used to I throw them all away now
I scrap once a week. I still keep a bit of wire here and there. I have a few lengths of different wires strapped together as sort of a picking jig for cleaning up or grabbing things that I otherwise couldn't. Like for taking an o-ring out of a tight space or poking various size holes in the tip of a drip bottle that's too closed off. Or just heating it up and poking it through stuff when I'm bored and fidgety.
So I have a dozen or so unused/old coils that I may toss in something at some point, a bunch of offspool wire to play with and my neat little jig thingy. Everything else gets tossed once a week when I do a station clean up.
So I have a dozen or so unused/old coils that I may toss in something at some point, a bunch of offspool wire to play with and my neat little jig thingy. Everything else gets tossed once a week when I do a station clean up.
If your making normal builds that you make more then once its understandab, if your experimentIngram with new builds and coils then it can get harder to get it perfect
I always cut to ohms so all I had for unused scrap is little nibs.
I'm too cheap for that. It annoys me watching videos where people have a bunch left that they wrap around the screw to clip off.
Even using a coiler where it would be easier if I'd use an extra 1/2" and clip it off I usually can't do it.
If you buy Kanthal D off Ebay you can get the 1000ft rolls for the same price of 100-250ft rolls of Kanthal A1, the only difference is max temp rating, which you couldnt ever get high enough to even get in the yellow zone. This is how Ive been buying wire and not care as much, I would buy the 38g+ wire for almost $8/100ft until I saw Kanthal D and researched the difference, afterwards thats all Ive been buying since.
Buying 100' rolls I always changed before I used much of it.
I still wouldn't want to waste that 1/2". I've wasted plenty twisting and wrapping, just can't waste that 1/2" to the coiler gods.
Seriously, even if I get back into kanthal & making claptons the 3-4' I already have made will last a long time as does the 35' of Ti. It doesn't have to make sense, it just is.
I go through wire like a madman. I tend to be pretty meticulous and particular about my builds. Sometimes, I will toss a perfectly usable coil just because a part of the process wasn't "to spec" for me. I enjoy the process of building. I like taking the time to sit down and get it right... ...just isolating every aspect I can and perfecting my approach.
This may sound crazy, but on some twisted psychological level, it makes vaping a more enjoyable experience for me. There's some sort of holy grail illusion about it... ...it's the coiler's fallacy. It's delusional thinking revolving around the perception of a positive correlation between the complexity of the build process and the quality/functionality of the end result. The weird thing about it is that I'm fully aware of it and I still fall for it.
I don't really care too much about wasting kanthal. I like to experiment with different coils. I build every day and I never run the same coils consecutively. There are only a handful that I bother to replicate. I look forward to sitting down and doing a build that I've probably been thinking about at some point earlier in the day. In my early days, I saved old coils, but I quickly found that I didn't want to vape any of those coils. I always wound up wrapping something new.
I also just like that fresh coil vape. I gotta vape a fresh coil at some point in my day.
I'm so wasteful with my kanthal. I bet my building habits would drive some of you guys nuts.
This may sound crazy, but on some twisted psychological level, it makes vaping a more enjoyable experience for me. There's some sort of holy grail illusion about it... ...it's the coiler's fallacy. It's delusional thinking revolving around the perception of a positive correlation between the complexity of the build process and the quality/functionality of the end result. The weird thing about it is that I'm fully aware of it and I still fall for it.
I don't really care too much about wasting kanthal. I like to experiment with different coils. I build every day and I never run the same coils consecutively. There are only a handful that I bother to replicate. I look forward to sitting down and doing a build that I've probably been thinking about at some point earlier in the day. In my early days, I saved old coils, but I quickly found that I didn't want to vape any of those coils. I always wound up wrapping something new.
I also just like that fresh coil vape. I gotta vape a fresh coil at some point in my day.
I'm so wasteful with my kanthal. I bet my building habits would drive some of you guys nuts.