Oh it's fine lol.. laugh with, laugh at. Man I was cussing. I get every now and then it dicks up, was hoping to at least get a usable 4-5" piece out of a 16-18" run to at least get ONE coil out of the mess. But nope. Every inch to inch and a half back tracking or something dumb, cores collapsing. Just enough to bite me in the ass. Tried the aliens and stretched out the decore, even that fucked up. How idk, attached one end to a fixed base and held the other end, pulled it out. Usually gives me a fairly even stretch, not yesterday it didn't. Some was over stretched, some was way under. All on the same piece. Needless to say that wrapped like ass. lol.
I like the hands free of the magnifying lamp. Though it does odd things looking through it at an angle, the perspective shifts. So it looks like you're roughly 90 degrees to the core and in fact you're leading at like a 20* angle so it's all spaced out. Will take some getting used to. Bright light though and the ability to select color temp is nice. Switches from a more yellow daylight to white to almost blue tinged higher Kelvin. Some color temps even less bright seem more helpful for seeing the details. I think I also need to rig some sort of platform up for my drill. A lot of drills the chuck is 90 degrees when it's sitting flat on the base, my makita angles up slightly. Good for drilling or screwing since it kicks the handle out away from say a wall. Otherwise it's an odd angle for winding coils. Maybe a slight angled surface to rest it on and tilt the chuck forward back to a 90.
I can make Aliens and Frailens, dual to 8 core plus ribbon; only coils I make longer than 9” is single core Claptons.
I’m “legally blind” needing 275/300 readers, I see fine anything greater than 14” from my face… anyhoo
I lay my drill on it’s side, rather than on it’s battery and use Quick Clamps to hold the drill in place and one that holds my swivels… this allows me to tension the cores correctly… never was able to do it by holding the drill, hoping I kept proper tension.
Anyway, 9” is more than enough to make a set of coil that I normally rock… 7” actually is… but I make them in 9” cut them in half and if I want to jump the ohms up a tad milder than .09 I add a wrap.
There are times I can sit down and crank out 5 sets fairly quick, no jittery hands, eyes want to cooperate and viola done… then there are days nothing goes right and a 9” run I barely have one useful coil… it’s generally when I’ve been over caffeinated
Then there are the times I forget to oil the swivels, or gone months without swapping in new swivels.
I also have a Spin LT… it’s trash, even with ceramic bearings, trash.
I can do the stretch method, but lately I do no stretch Aliens… took a little getting used to holding and leading while pinch holding the wrap wire… but I do have to say once I learned it… no more snagging of outstretched wrap wire
And yes, I probably went through a few thousand feet of 36/37g wire perfecting Aliens, cause I refused to believe my swivels didn’t suck
But these days it simple life.. 26-28g plain single wire coils and Boros
Mechs all have coils in them, cleaned.
Last set of coils I made was for
@dubya314 when we made a trade, I sent a set of Aliens for a series Asmini Deck
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