So I'm trying to make my own micro coil and I'm being told that I need a Small butane or propane torch but could I simply get a simple lighter butane lighter from say Walmart would that work as a good substitution instead of paying like $15 for an actual butane torch
Butane torch needed for micro coils?
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I use one of these: $6.46 Honest 503 Pen Style Butane Jet Torch and Lighter - with easy-adjust switch at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping
Works very good on my coils and mesh.
Works very good on my coils and mesh.
I did use a torch, but these days I squeeze coils after test firing them. Seems to work quite well. 
I also purchased a small butane torch when I first began building coils. It's no longer fashionable to anneal Kanthal wire. I haven't used my torch in over a year. You can simply pulse fire your coils on the mod after you test the coil resistance on an ohm reader.
Press the fire button until the coil glows red. It should glow from inside out. The heat makes it easier to conform the coil into the shape you wish with the tweezer.
Don't compress the coils with a tweezer while the coil is being pulsed, you'll cause a hard short. If you wish to compress your coils while it is glowing, purchase ceramic-tipped tweezers.
Press the fire button until the coil glows red. It should glow from inside out. The heat makes it easier to conform the coil into the shape you wish with the tweezer.
Don't compress the coils with a tweezer while the coil is being pulsed, you'll cause a hard short. If you wish to compress your coils while it is glowing, purchase ceramic-tipped tweezers.
You can use a butane lighter or you could do what i do. Put the coil in the RDA or RTA screw on your mod, fire tge coil with your mod and push the coils together with a pair of ceramic tweezers, or fire tge coil and squeeze together after releasing the fire button but the coil is still warm.
DO NOG HEAT TITANIUM SND NICKEL WIRE IN THIS MANNER.
Titanium a d Nickel oxide id dangerous.
Never use NI or TI coils in any mode other than Temperature Control.
The only time I use my torch is when I do a Genesis build with SS mesh. As others have pointed out, it's really not necessary with a Kanthal build, pulsing and tweaking are the way to go.
I have a torch too... its used to lite the BBQ pit... I might have used it maybe 6 times for coils... didnt really see any difference of using the torch or just doing a dry burn and pinch...
its also great for carmelizing a Creme Brulee'
its also great for carmelizing a Creme Brulee'
I used a 99 cent bic lighter before and it seems to work pretty good...........................but as
the others are saying...now days everybody including me..are just
firing up the coil by pressing the firing button and pinching it before it cools
off.........everybody was heating the kanthal 2 years ago before wrapping a coil but this
method seems to have gone
by the way of the dinosaurs.....................just sayin................
the others are saying...now days everybody including me..are just
firing up the coil by pressing the firing button and pinching it before it cools
off.........everybody was heating the kanthal 2 years ago before wrapping a coil but this
method seems to have gone
by the way of the dinosaurs.....................just sayin................
Yes it has gone by the way of the dinosaur.
If was dobr TK prevent springiness of tge Kanthal.
I may have pre heated four or five coils. I started using the mod to Dry burn my coils and never looked back.
My torch is now used to crisp up the pepperoni on my pizza..
I used to torch my coils in addition to pulsing them because I was worried that the legs wouldn't get hot enough to burn off the machining residue on the wire. But I don't any more. I also used to use a torch lighter rather than a dedicated blowtorch because I found it gave me more control and would fit nicely in my vape tool kit.
No, you don't need a butane torch! Torching is not necessary and is not good for the wire. Just clean your wire with alcohol or soap and water, rinse and dry. Make your coil (if you're a beginner, I recommend getting a gizmo like Kuro coiler or similar), mount your coil and gently pulse (low wattage, short bursts) to burn of impurities and check the coil.
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Thanks for your comments @tchavei. Thought I'd drop in here before things got too far along (thanks for the shout @Katya). Think I've been one of many major proponents of safe building methods for Kanthal on ECF for quite some time. So the thread you referred to @tchavei…The end of microcoils? | E-Cigarette Forum…was of some interest to me. Dr. Farsalinos' suggestion that we shouldn't torch or dry burn wires implicated Kanthal along with other more recently popular wire types. Many objected to both generalizations which I now believe was unintentional. I agree with one, strongly disagree with the other.
Kanthal is resistance wire intended for use as a vaporizing element. It heats air we breath in an assortment of applications from space heaters to toasters, ovens, heat pumps…the list is long. It was conceived and intended to be oxidized as it exudes an alumina oxide layer (ceramic) which insulates the wire against ferric corrosion. For us that's excellent news as it isolates the juice media we vape from the underlying metals. But since the advent of the contact microcoil even more good news is that this isolating layer is also an insulating barrier which converts contacting wires into insulated wires (not a short). The temperatures necessary are quite lower (<1400F) than those used in torching to form coils (>1800F and higher) which actually may compromise the material's surface (the very layers we're trying to create). As @tchavei mentioned oxidizing layers can be observed with low voltage pulses through several transitions of color. Contact coils so prepared are marvelously stable, powerful and run cooler (vaporizing juice at a higher rate by letting off power to liquid more effectively due to their more uniform temperature).
Contact coils are a very easy and dependable wind to make and insulating them a breeze with a proper approach to consistency and by developing an understanding of how to effectively develop the oxidation. I've been for a number of years an advocate against torching Kanthal then as it's really not needed. Happen to have a little experience accomplishing this and I'm pleased to assist all I can help get to a great vape asap. Look me up or my posts. Have a go.
Good luck.
No, you don't need a butane torch! Torching is not necessary and is not good for the wire. Just clean your wire with alcohol or soap and water, rinse and dry. Make your coil (if you're a beginner, I recommend getting a gizmo like Kuro coiler or similar), mount your coil and gently pulse (low wattage, short bursts) to burn of impurities and check the coil.
More information below.
A few hundred of you K and we could have that million man vapeathon on the FDA's front door. Thx for the nod.
Good luck all.
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Welcome and glad you joined. Sorry, not a micro but a macro spaced RDA coil user.
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