Straws now obsolete!? Simple discovery!

**eclypse** · 12-15-2009, 08:23 PM

I got this working good now with the blue foam plug. Prob is that i'm getting a weird plasticly taste now.. prob is the foam as its now too close to the coil at its natural thickness of 1/4 thick. i could either try thinning the foam out but it would be tough to get a good clean cut or better thin out the plastic boarder around the plastic cap. I figure if i end up flattening it out it will sit lower. I could just flip the plastic disk around and then it will be lower but with it that way the lip around the plastic disk prevents the foam from making a good solid seal around the cart walls.

heh if i didnt have kids right now.. this would be done.

I wish this could be used with the silicone plug but its too thin. I've already tried that long ago and i had to double up the silicone to make it touch the bridge and i dont think that would be ideal.

If you could find some other silicone that is thicker it would rock.

EDIT: Bad taste is now gone! lol.. i guess its been that long since i've done that but i guess i didnt wash the foam that good the first time being in a hurry to try it. All good and working well.

**Pete54** · 12-15-2009, 09:39 PM

When I take the inner plug out of a whistletip and put it into the atomizer end, it's such a tight fit that it expands the plastic and won't fit into the atomizer. What am I doing wrong?

**eclypse** · 12-15-2009, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Pete54

When I take the inner plug out of a whistletip and put it into the atomizer end, it's such a tight fit that it expands the plastic and won't fit into the atomizer. What am I doing wrong?

I had the same prob when i first did this.. what you need to do is use the very end cap first. Shove that down it first and it will stretch the cart out. Its easier to start with the end cap as its taller.

I got this down for thick juice.. trying it with thinner PG juice now and so far so good.

Though i'm sure at High voltage, it may cook the foam.. but we'll try that in a few if i get a chance.

**eclypse** · 12-15-2009, 10:17 PM

Another quick thought that i forgot about.. it just may be possable to use this with the silicone plug as you can just keep the plastic cap higher up so the thin silicone plug will reach the bridge.

**voltaire** · 12-15-2009, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by eclypse

I got this working good now with the blue foam plug. Prob is that i'm getting a weird plasticly taste now.. prob is the foam as its now too close to the coil at its natural thickness of 1/4 thick. i could either try thinning the foam out but it would be tough to get a good clean cut or better thin out the plastic boarder around the plastic cap. I figure if i end up flattening it out it will sit lower. I could just flip the plastic disk around and then it will be lower but with it that way the lip around the plastic disk prevents the foam from making a good solid seal around the cart walls.

Yeah, you can get the little piece down even lower by sanding or grinding off the lip. (dremel probably best) Since it's such a tiny piece, to make working with it easier you can try pushing the larger piece from the whistle-tip down the atty end of the donor cart. Force it down so that it is just slightly lower than the end of the cart. Now you can put the smaller piece in so that the lip is now protruding from the end of the cart, supported from underneath by the larger piece. That should make it much easier to work with when using a sander, grinder, or whatever. Since you're using the donor cart to do this, you don't have to worry about going too far and grinding the edge of the cart itself.

If I make it sound easy, and it's not - sorry, that's cuz I haven't actually done it yet. First, I figure i'll let someone else slip and sand off the skin on their fingers!

**ProfessorDaffy** · 12-16-2009, 06:21 PM

Great discovery! I love taking "stuff" apart to see what you can make from it. Any ideas of "wicking" material, just gets you back to the orginal idea. The more empty space you have at the bottom of the cart the better, it just flows. Even the modifications I've come up with still go back to the orginal ADM carts which work so well because the juice has a clear flow to the filler material at the top.

Fortunately, I have some new carts on the way, so I think at least one of my whistle carts has very limited life expectancy.

--Prof Daffy

**suzieq72** · 02-09-2010, 07:12 PM

Okay. I'm new here but have been vaping since last July. I'm not sure if I did this right but I'm loving the results.

I'm using a whistle top cart on a 510. I took both little pieces out of the cart. I put the smallest piece into the atty side of the cart with the little hole facing outward. I used a syringe to poke through that little hole and fill the empty cart with liquid. Then, I used a tiny amount (maybe 1/3) of the white wicking material and placed it on top of the small piece that is now inside of the atty side of the cart. The material soaked up some of the liquid but I added another drop to be sure. I put the original little piece back in it's original position on the other end of the mouth piece and I'm vaping away.

Seems to me that this method creates a chamber full of liquid that used to be taken up by the wicking material. That liquid is constantly supplying the tiny amount of wicking material left and I'm now refilling less. I also hold my e-cig at a downward 45 degree angle which probably helps this method a little. I'll continue to vape and see what happens.

I was looking for something different as I am sick of refilling every few minutes. I'm going to a concert this weekend and it will be extremely difficult to refill and inconvenient to to carry lots of carts.