(Part 2) Top products from r/Coilporn

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.

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 use one of these and a fiskars hand drill and it helps a TON.

Yea just regular tap water it was the best 20 bucks I spent.

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Ultrasonic-Jewelry-Eyeglass-Cleaning/dp/B001DKDAVW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412596945&sr=8-1&keywords=sonic+cleaner

I use a pair of these, and they're great. An essential part of my build kit.

https://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-193400-1001-Paper-Crimper-12-93408897/dp/B000FPU3ES

have you tried using something like this? It seems like it could work.

Thanks, its a Corsair Quick Fire with brown switches.

I don't know about op, but I picked up some plain 22g 316l beadlon wire from amazon for about 10 bucks at 32ft. Beadalon Round Wire 316L Stainless Steel 22 Gauge, 10-Meter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001R8LLW0/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_6gdsub0YQ1X67

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Beadalon-Square-Stainless-Steel-10-Meter/dp/B002R2YSPW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451282048&sr=8-1&keywords=beadalon+square+wire

24g is the smallest they had

Get some shelf liner and put that underneath it. If you're still pulling it, clamp it to one edge of the table (still with the shelf liner under it) and braid from the opposite edge.

german engineering by Knipex

https://www.amazon.com/KNIPEX-78-81-125-Super-Knips/dp/B005EXOF86/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518726430&sr=8-1&keywords=Knipex+78+81+125

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0013UD43Q

$4 on amazon You don't need to boil the organic ones, thats the normal bleached cotton balls. Thats just product placement and i feel bad for 2 for a dollar. I dont know what 1000ft vs 80ct would be haha. But i've maybe used 10 in the last 6 month because you get so much unrolling them.

yeah i was wondering about that. I have been keeping the angle at about 90 degrees. I did get a this headband and now can actually see what the hell i am doing.