First build, TugBoat RDA

[LubeTech]

Bought a Tugboat, and a copper Nemesis clone. Nemesis cam e a couple days after the Tugboat and was an online order. Tugboat was bought in a local B&M shop. The guy in the shop asked if he could build a coil for it, and loaned me a mod until my Nemesis came in. He built a sweet single coil using two wires. It lasted a week, and I decided that I wanted my own coils. Got the Nemesis.
Attached the Tugboat.

Took his coil off (it still worked, just needed to build my own). Wrapped a couple coils, screwed them on the Tugboat. Overtightened one screw and snapped the Kanthal. Crap. Wrap another one. Try again. Got them installed, put it on the meter. 0.45 ohms. Ok, I'm good, got a Sony VTC5 battery in the Nemesis. Test fire them, and make a couple adjustments.

Time for cotton.

Maybe too much cotton?
No matter, I'm adding juice.
Holy crap!
What have I built?!

 

[Spacedoutart]

Nice Job. Very clean coils and perfect use of cotton! If you keep having an issue with the screws cutting the wire, I have found that using a file and rounding out the end of the screws can help this.

 

[Jjshbetz11]

Loiks good,

 

[Luke49783]

That looks like it'll hit hard! What gauge wire and how many wraps for each of the coils?

 

[KAI789]

The tugboat is brilliant, nice, deep juice well, and it's easily my hardest hitting RDA, no matter what build I have on it

 

[2naphish]

finally figured out what the Tugboat is made for... tried out a quad micro coil setup with a deep bed of cotton underneath
. wowsers.. .5 omh 28 ga. 14 wraps each. slightly warm vape and works well with the giant stock air holes ( which were a tad big for me). but the biggie for me is the flavor plenty of room to build and enough space in the post holes..nice

 

[Kemosabe]

im not familiar with the tugboat. seems like an awful lot of cotton stuffed in there. must be different than my RDAs as mine perform much better with minimal cotton, visible deck.

 

[Kr3wsk8er]

Congrats on the hardware and build! Looks clean.

On a side-note what juice are you vaping? and this is just my opinion but I stay away from anything with coloring. Reason being I assume the coloring is food coloring, and if that is the case know that one of the ingredients of food coloring is petroleum. Petroleum is made from Petrochemicals and Coal tar. Different colored food dyes are often derived from different ingredients, and usually feature a color followed by a number such as yellow 5, yellow 6, or red 40. These three examples contain benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl.

 

[Kemosabe]

Congrats on the hardware and build! Looks clean.

On a side-note what juice are you vaping? and this is just my opinion but I stay away from anything with coloring. Reason being I assume the coloring is food coloring, and if that is the case know that one of the ingredients of food coloring is petroleum. Petroleum is made from Petrochemicals and Coal tar. Different colored food dyes are often derived from different ingredients, and usually feature a color followed by a number such as yellow 5, yellow 6, or red 40. These three examples contain benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl.

That would explain why ecto plasma is no longer green. Thanks for the breakdown of what food coloring is. I never thought it was good per se, but dang I never realized it was that bad.
As to what juice he's vaping, my guess is Pluid. I'm glad I never liked that one. Woulda been costly to have in hand and now I'm finding out its also possibly not healthy to vape.