I call it ADP Mod.. Auto Drip Mod!

[kreiderb]

What brand is the greenie thing?

[RKayne]

We went out the other night, when we got home I popped off the end piece and refilled. I haven't refilled since. It's still going. Little tweaking here, I had to stuff the fill a bit in the spring so it would not come off on the atty, but aside from that? Fabulous. I ordered nylon springs to get away from any trace metals concern. In the meantime, though, I am going to continue to use this same spring that I liberated from a standard pen.

[kreiderb]

We went out the other night, when we got home I popped off the end piece and refilled. I haven't refilled since. It's still going. Little tweaking here, I had to stuff the fill a bit in the spring so it would not come off on the atty, but aside from that? Fabulous. I ordered nylon springs to get away from any trace metals concern. In the meantime, though, I am going to continue to use this same spring that I liberated from a standard pen.

Where did you order nylon springs from?

[ProfessorDaffy]

I used a drinking straw cut to length instead of a spring or the cut piece from the rubber cap. Displaces less liquid than the rubber piece and no metal to corrode.

I also used a piece of a greenie scrubber for the plug. Press the cart mouth on the greenie and it leaves an impression to cut around. Just make it slightly larger, so it seals the opening. The liquid chamber itself never gets hot, so no worries about the straw melting.

I did the exact same thing last night! I was thinking what would support the "filler plug". I was thinking maybe a vertical coffee stirrer (who hasn't stolen a handful of those from work!) but I though fluid would be wasted or trapped in the tube itself and then I thought of a drinking straw. I have some cheap ones (thinner then the kind you get at a fast food place). I dismissed the idea because it hugged the wall too tightly and I was afraid the plug would go into the hole. It was extremely form fitting. Put in on the back burner until I could find an even thinner straw. I even folded it in half to make it more centered, but it seemed to take up too much space.

I also remember reading about the horizontal spring to press the fibers up into the atomizer from a few months back, but nothing really came of it. Just one of a million ideas thrown around, but I couldn't wrap my brain around it at the time. Seemed more like a solution for having to fluff up the fibers. The vertical spring seems to make a lot of sense in how much space it leaves for liquid.

There's probably going to be a million variations of this, I'm just glad there's enough evidence that the theory works. Kudos again, Scotty. Besides, nobody ever remembers who invented what. It's who makes it famous, right. =)

As for cutting off 2mm off the end of a cartridge cap. NEVER! I actually have a need for those caps now and I'm down to like three of them! But that does sound like a good solution for 801's and 901's that don't have a ledge.

--Prof Daffy
P.S. The water sponge bottle was a brilliant visual demonstration of the principal.
P.P.S. I did dismiss the straw a little quickly and might revisit the concept.

[RKayne]

Where did you order nylon springs from?

The ones I ordered are coming from Germany.

[fritz]

Didn't real all post on this thread probably only 2 first pages..

But i just finished making mines for m401 ..

I'll post updates later

WarrLordd,

Keep us updated on how it works for the 401, and if it does, take a pic of how you did it. I'd like to try this for my 401 as well.

[ProfessorDaffy]

Did a search of all ecig forums, cannot find AFS?

AFS(Auto Feeding System). I think supposed to be a 4ml tank of some sort that fills the cart as you use up the juice. I've seen similar items with little tanks full of juice and tubes to feed into a modified cart. Personally, I prefer to keep by e-juice supply in my pocket where it belongs not dangling off the end of my e-cig.

The ADM adds juice. Not weight. You don't top off. You just fill'er up.

--Prof Daffy
P.S. Sorry, couldn't find a picture of the thing.

[Kelemvor]

As for cutting off 2mm off the end of a cartridge cap. NEVER! I actually have a need for those caps now and I'm down to like three of them!

what for ? they do their old job without those 2-3mm just fine.

[anim8r]

after a whole day with this mod, I'm back to using tulle as my filler.

It drained perfectly the first time around, but for some reason, today my juice has been tasting like horse sweat, and I have to remove the cart and stab the polyfill with a needle to get the juice to soak the poly again. I'm using a third of the supplied poly.

I don't know if it's the poly-fill from the manufacturer of the blank carts I have, or a reaction of it with the spring... totally confused, since it worked so awesomely on the first cart, but with the tulle back in place and the spring now gone, my juice is back to being delicious.

Maybe it's my type of pen spring

[Scottbee]

after a whole day with this mod, I'm back to using tulle as my filler.

It drained perfectly the first time around, but for some reason, today my juice has been tasting like horse sweat, and I have to remove the cart and stab the polyfill with a needle to get the juice to soak the poly again. I'm using a third of the supplied poly.

I don't know if it's the poly-fill from the manufacturer of the blank carts I have, or a reaction of it with the spring... totally confused, since it worked so awesomely on the first cart, but with the tulle back in place and the spring now gone, my juice is back to being delicious.

Maybe it's my type of pen spring

That could very well be! I noticed that the spring that I grabbed is turning my liquid reddish/orange. And it's not rust.

Lucky for me, I have a very nice selection of Lee stainless steel springs.. and I'll just be grabbing one of those.. or switching to a straw like Kristin recommended.