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I have tried quite a few things for keeping multicore builds straight, allow me to save everybody the pain and bit of money of experimenting with this essay.

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Aw man, those things sucked for me, assuming we bought the same ones... too weak, made of plastic and too large to be tight enough. Amazon disappointed me with this one. Glad they're working for you though!

Paperclips bend your wire and can screw everything over, especially if they're not tight enough. I tried special "Owl" paperclips and they still bent the wires like regular paperclips did.

Hair snap clips SERIOUSLY bend up your wire and don't even want to clip shut most of the time. Avoid, at least these particular ones.

Clothespins are too weak as well, at least the wooden ones.

I tried... I am not sure what they're called, they're the squeeze things that are on the strings of a hoodie, and the ones I bought were too weak, but would've worked nicely if the spring was better. These aren't the exact ones I bought, but they're the same thing.

I purchased two different Micro chucks (number 2) for my drill, they fit into the drill and have four jaws, but they're impossible to tighten enough for them to be worth using, your wires just fall out. Disappointing.

I purchased a Jeweler's Hand Vise and it works great, except that it comes out of the drill at a slight upward angle, with longer wires it causes everything to jerk around a bit which can snap 38g+ if you're not careful, especially at faster speeds, but besides that it's a great tool that I use all the time. Everybody should have one of these!

I bought a set of those fancy Patino's alien makers and mine are the older ones that need to be broken in first and believe me I've tried jamming many, many different things into those 3DPrinted pieces of crap to no avail, but the newer version apparently don't need to be broken in so I'm not absolutely writing them off.

Aaanyways, I found, on the floor while buying groceries, this tiny keyring. I have no idea where to purchase one, but it's about the size of a USD Penny and it's made out of what looks to be 14/16 AWGauge wire that had been wrapped around a sharpie three times. It's tight as hell and works the best out of anything I've ever used, I just wish I could find where to actually buy it.

Besides that, the old ribbon slider trick works well enough most of the time, just gotta carefully crimp them down with flat-nosed pliers.

I saw this thing and I'm incredibly tempted to purchase or make my own, as I believe it would be one of the most useful tools.

Last but most promising is this contraption and this one seems to be the improved 2.0 version. I would purchase one if I still had problems because I'm certain it would work amazingly, but the jeweler's hand vise works well enough, even with the jerkiness.

TL;DR, my personal suggestion is:

The absolute best thing I have discovered to keep multiple cores straight is a technique rather than a tool: put your wires into the drill chuck as straight as you can, bending them into Ls to match the three jaws and wrap 36-40g wire around the starting point of the wire like twenty times for about half of a centimeter and then crimp it down hard as you can with pliers while not bending the cores. It works so well that you don't even need to use anything else if you do it just right!

Hope all this can help you guys, feel free to share this information wherever with whoever whenever needed.

Never done twisted builds before myself, but from what I've seen I'd say your twists are a little too loose. They do make special pliers for twisting wires that make it much easier to get good twists on craft wire, so I'd imagine they'd work great for the job. Get yourself one of these and it'll give you nice tight twists every time.

Re reading it this morning it was kinda harsh lol, I was pretty buzzed. That s7 has a great camera on it man, it's all about stability and lighting. I use a cheap little lens attachment kit for my note 5. This is for your phone. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CSJ50II/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_tKazxb49P7DXQ it's crazy how well these things work. Check out Twisted Messes on YouTube, has a pretty good tutorial video on taking pictures and such

Man this conversation has me back fired up to get one. I got on amazon and the prices have dropped so much it's really affordable now. This one has decent reviews if used right and the price point has it in the realm I could do it now but I'll probably be wiser and wait till my next bonus still. I wish I would have looked a week ago I've nearly spent that much on new mods and vape gear this month. I'm excited to see them in the price range to it's so much more in reach now. Last time I looked they were still closer to $1K

In the video ILB (aka twisted messes) uses one of these to get the spin down pat:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GJ9BNSO/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Q4Zevb12N8398 but that's not the only issue in making this coil I'm sure. Plus, 50-60' in the bin is crazy, I hope you find a better way to do this coil, as the result looks just amazing.

I use one of these, and using the 2mm rod, I gave it 9 full turns with 28GA Kanthal. Works pretty good, giving me a nice balance between battery life and vapor production.

I used this to calculate, although the rod I used on that coiling gizmo is more like 1.83mm.

Found pretty close to what we use on Amazon

5X Desk Magnifier Lamp,Adjustable Swivel and Swing Arm Magnifier Table Lamp Light With Glass Lens and Bench Clamp https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTSQYDF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_B61RzbHYP041C

Yeah our screen printer for smt has two shitty cameras for aligning the paste.. then Quality has two Mantis scopes.. 8x and 18x I think, they also have a z vision that they use on a pc monitor... my AOI machiene has the best camera in the shop tho, but it's gotta be since it's checking polarity, value, orientation, solder, ect... I think I can go up to 40x.. it's a little grainy at that magnification but you can get the gist of what ur looking at.

I'm going to have to check out LV website, Amazon doesn't have anything higher than 36g really.

Don't remember how much mine was, but this looks like a pretty good one. https://www.amazon.com/iSonic%C2%AE-Digital-Ultrasonic-Cleaner-D3800A/dp/B0009OOZEY

I dunno but its annoying as hell to have to deal with different types of screws. Its almost like its planned obsolescence, they have poor durability and they don't even give you spares most time for authentics.

My favorite are the typical M2-0.4 screws, that the igo-w uses and the patriot rda uses. Awhile back I ordered some 316 stainless steel ones with a rounded drive to make stripping impossible. Thankfully they fit this plume veil I just got and I immediately switched them in. I wish they were the standard, I like to overtighten and get my leads very tightly secured til the wires nearly about to cut, that sweet spot where it takes some actual torque to start unscrewing it, and these make it an absolute breeze

http://i.imgur.com/ZMp9BPL.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Machine-Phillips-Threaded-Threads/dp/B00918JYMM

Get some cord locks like these

Set up a few along the length of the wire and move them back as you go. If you do it right it should keep everything in line pretty well.

What is chados cotton? Looks like generic Japanese cotton to me. http://www.amazon.com/Cotton-Labo-ORGANIC-Puff-200pc/dp/B000TCD51A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416331712&sr=8-1&keywords=japanese+cotton 200 pieces for $8.








I would position the coils closer to each other. You want your air flow to go over the coils. If they are spread out like that, you won't get direct air-to-coil contact on all of the coils... Unless your RDA can do that, which the DH doesn't IIRC. Otherwise, it looks fine to me.

I'd recommend buying a very small and cheap multi meter. You can measure the resistance of the wire without ever having to coil it so you can get a ballpark estimate, most of the time it'll be pretty close if the wire is cut to length.

Something like this

lol I finally broke down and bought a cheap kit on Amazon. It was like $8 with free prime shipping. It's supposed to show up today. I'll join in on your thread here posting the details and pic results, if you don't mind.

It was a comment on Instagram that finally got me to break down and get one. I just recently got a camera connect kit for my iphone, so I was trying to use my DSLR, but it's such a hassle (yeah, first world problem).

edit: just got the kit, here's the two builds I'm running with right now...

http://i.imgur.com/2tS2fWt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iGtR9nW.jpg

Here's a link to the kit I ordered on Amazon ($8.89 prime): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K0H989W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have a coil gizmo that I bought from amazon and I taped the two smallest rods together, 1.83mm and 1.22mm. Then I just wrapped it as I normally would with the gizmo.

I got mine HERE. I think I've used 2 pads in the last 3 weeks and I've re-wicked a lot of builds.

I use the middle rod from this set for most of my coils. ID is about 2.5mm I think, I measured it a while ago but forget exactly. Maybe 2.75.