What's your favorite cartridge filler?

[karenrcg]

I may need to try some of these ideas, I have to admit i've been using the original material that came in the carts for 4 months now I give it a good wash then put the little squares into mesh laundry bags and chuck them in the tumble dryer it fluffs them up just as if they are new

[TheCleaner]

I'm the same way karenrcg.I've been using the same cart and filler for 2 months.I take the filler out and put it in a paper towel to suck up the juice then run it under the facet to clean it out.Then I put it in a paper towel again to absorb the water.It comes up nice and fluffy.I do this once a week.I don't see why people change them so much.Am I missing something?

[Terrie]

Like Karenrcg and TheCleaner I just keep washing mine and re-using them. I have about 15 carts that I have been re-using for 3 months now. About once a week I pull all the used fillers out, put those and the carts in a spaghetti strainer, spray them down really good with hot water, then let them dry.

[caywen]

Has anyone tried the material from an analog cigarette butt? Seems to me that that stuff would actually be ideal (if a bit ironic).

[Ann]

I was using the cheap coffee filters then found some old
Gevalia coffee filters and what a difference it made.
The nic flavors come through much better and the vape is less harsh. The tea bags make me congested.

[nwharley]

i have been using the loosly rolled paper towel today and is working great.

[Bootyology]

ARRRGH!!

I'm having so much trouble with diy liquid and filler materials.

My journey with filler material:

1. Fluval cleaning pads
(not the filter; the cleaning pad. haven't tried the filter yet).
These looked and felt just like the original filler that comes with new carts. It's just not the same. If you use just a little bit too much you block of access to the innermost depths -- there is invariably some small area where the density of the material simply will not allow any passage.

I've had amazing success with using as little filling as possible... but only for the first fill. After the first use, it loses whatever structure you've given it and becomes a useless lump at the bottom of the cart. I've even tried creating a small structure from bits of paperclip, heating the paperclip structure, and then melting little puffs of the polyester on to the structure, cutting off excess... blah. that was a failure as well. The structure takes up too much space in my tiny m401 cart and the filling collapsed a significant amount anyway.

2. Paper towel
too absorbent. I would get perhaps a couple good drags and then I'd have to wait a little for the atomizer to gradually wick some more liquid.

3. Tea bag
Same deal. use too much and it doesn't allow for enough flow. use too little and you flood your atomizer. I couldn't find a middle ground. Also it seemed as though the material would always expand in my cart and i'd lose that nice coil shape. it would just become a thick 'O' and subsequent fillings would just pour right into my atomizer uncontrolled.

4. regular ol' paper
I thought this worked amazingly until i got a flooded atomizer. But come to think of it, I don't think I've tried using enough paper. so perhaps i'll give that a try. I doubt i'll have any success though.



So thus far, nothing has worked nearly as well for me as the original material. Thanks to all who are trying new things and sharing successes.

[lec666]

i'm still using the original polyfill stuff that comes in it only i've modified my cart. i read
somewhere on this board about a strategically placed pinhole in the cart can help.
well i've done this and i just about empty the entire cart with good taste throughout.
the way i could tell is before i would go to top up and would only be able to get 4 drops
or so on the cart. now it takes 10-12 drops in a 901 cart. size and location of
the pinhole are key to this working. i use the extreme tip of an exacto knife
to achieve this. too big a hole and you'll flood the atomizer.

[ChaoticKinesis]

Teabags are working very well in both my 4075 and 501. Draw is easier, longer between top-offs and they wick much drier than original filler. Standard Liptons Tea, 1/2 lengthwise, fold that in half and then wrap almost loose around a ballpoint pen cartridge. Lasts 2 to 3 days but for the price and ease of assembly, well,

So let me get this straight: are you using the entire length of the tea bag when opened up with double thickness (folded in half, so essentially four layers) to fill a single cart? Do you still get the hole in the middle after it absorbs the liquid, with the bag bunching up around the sides of the cart?

[80063r]

I thought I'd try that cigarette filter idea...

Has anyone tried the material from an analog cigarette butt? Seems to me that that stuff would actually be ideal (if a bit ironic).

I like that suggestion because they are resistant to heat damage, and I have several hundred left over from roll-my-own analog making.

I split the filter in half lengthwise, and cut to length. By the way, this was tried first on my NJOY NPRO (RN4081). After putting 3 drops in the empty cartridge, I slid the filter into it and poked a hole in it with a toothpick. Then I topped it off.

It was very absorbent and had Great wicking action. It produces large amounts of vapor and has no bad taste (yet). I even seems to hold as much, if not more liquid than the original wick.

I'll report back more later.