Green Dish Scratchy Pad

[JoeMcPlumber]

Further adventures in the wilderness,
far from civilization and stores that have, you know, stuff...

I found this under my kitchen sink...



... and i've been vaping on it for a day and a half or so,
and it's been the best stuff i've found so far,
me being unable to just go out to the hardware or pet store.
It absorbs my thick gooey VG mix really well,
and makes happy clouds of vapor but
then i'm just innocently reading along in the forum and someone says

"DONT! use the green pads" cause they have abrasives in them.

In capital letters, like that.

Should i be frightened and stop using it right now? That would bum me,
but not as much as the irony of dying from little green abrasive particles in my lungs
instead of cigarette tar.

- joe

[CloudBurst]

I am certainly no expert but I'd stop using it. If it was vapeable, it probably has been tried or found out to be bad. Try the blue foam, it works great as well.

[Scottbee]

I used the green pads for quite a long time before switching over to the blue pads.

There are some green pads without abrasives. There are some green pads with a LOT of abrasives.

But.. based on what I've been able to glean from my friends at 3M, the abrasives aren't metallic (at least on their pads). They are (probably) mineral.

[CloudBurst]

I stand corrected ScottBee, I hadn't heard of the greenies as filler. Hummm, works better than the blue foam? Now that I look, maybe not if you switched.

[JoeMcPlumber]

I think maybe the thing to do is crumple it,
and see what, if anything, comes out.



I don't think that stuff is bits of pad.

So, my bad, but at least it's one more "be careful" type post.

- joe

[Scottbee]

Yikes!

Nothing comes out of my 3M blue pad. After I cut it with my punch I will wash it to get rid of any loose pieces that come from the punch process... but that's it.

[kristin]

"DONT! use the green pads" cause they have abrasives in them.

In capital letters, like that.

Should i be frightened and stop using it right now? That would bum me,
but not as much as the irony of dying from little green abrasive particles in my lungs
instead of cigarette tar.

- joe

Yeah, that was probably me. I posted a cart mod (RSP mod) that originally used a green scrubbie. After some research, we found that the Scotch Brite Heavy Duty (green) pad had metal abrasives embedded in them, per the Scotch site. So, we switched to the Scotch Brite Non-Scratch (blue) pads. They work just as well and don't have the abrasives.

You can also try the facial scrubbie, called a "Buff Puff" or the generic version from Walgeen's.

[Scottbee]

I stand corrected ScottBee, I hadn't heard of the greenies as filler. Hummm, works better than the blue foam? Now that I look, maybe not if you switched.

Storm,

I don't use the blue FOAM... I use the blue PADS. I changed to the blue pads from the green pads.

But I don't use them as a complete filler, I use them as a plug on top of a spring (axial... lengthwise).

[Flash69]

I alternate between the blue foam and the green Scotch-brite pad
(and rinse the green pad really well before I start cutting it up).
I use these with the paper clip mod which I think works better than
the straw or the spring.
I am getting 10-11 drops in a 510 round cart and 12-15 in a 510 whistle cart.
Who knew such simple things around the house could work so well....

GL - Keep VAPING

[kristin]

I alternate between the blue foam and the green Scotch-brite pad
(and rinse the green pad really well before I start cutting it up).
I use these with the paper clip mod which I think works better than
the straw or the spring.
I am getting 10-11 drops in a 510 round cart and 12-15 in a 510 whistle cart.
Who knew such simple things around the house could work so well....

GL - Keep VAPING

If you insist on using the green scrubbie, Scottbee suggested that you should rinse it AFTER cutting & trimming, to remove the loose fibers and abrasives caused by cutting. It's a good precaution. Wish I could convince you to switch to the blue scrubber pads, though. They work just as well, cost the same and don't contain the metal abrasives.