Coffee filters

[Saosin]

I'm pretty new to vaping but I've already figured out some nasty things that can happen. I have the DSE901b and found out that sometimes the poly fibers from the carts can stick to the atty and make a horrible burning taste!! so I read on this forum that you can use a piece of a coffee filter instead of the polyfill and it works great! no more burning..thanks for whoever came up with the idea I just cut it to the appropriate width, roll it up and use it in the cart. Works just as well, or better than the prefilled carts. I can still remember that burning taste :gags:

[FisherPal]

Thanks for sharing that info, Saosin. Always interesting to hear what people find successful. I, too, am not a huge fan of the typical 'filler' material for the exact same reasons that you mentioned. As I have been without a reliable ecig for awhile and just got my 510 yesterday, haven't had too much chance to play but will definitely give the coffee filter thing a try. The 510 manual battery is great for dripping but am a newbit with that as well and find that constantly having to pry the cart off and drip after every few draws could be a bit tiresome after awhile. Although I have to admit that it has it upsides to as far as taste goes. However would be nice to have good carts to take out in public when I don't want to fiddle around with it.

Right now, thanks to a recommendation on another ecig forum, I am trying a cart filled with felt. The lady who posted her experience used to use teabags until she tried this method and was very impressed with how it worked. As she is always a wonderful source of information, I take her recommendations seriously. These are those felt sheets 8 1/2 x 11 that you find in any craft/dollar store for about 20 - 50 cents a piece. Just cut a 1/2 inch piece to length, fold in half, stuff the cart and fill with liquid. I've only just given it a try this evening but so far am really impressed. Got just over 20 drops in my 510 cart and it is producing copious amounts of vapor. Will be interesting to see how well it drains the cart using this method. I'm thinking that maybe, because it is folded in half, it creates kind of an air passage similar to the straw method that a lot of people like. Anyway, certainly worth a try and I'll keep the coffee filter thing in mind as well. Not being a tea drinker, don't have many teabags around but always have coffee filters.

[Saosin]

thanks for sharing your info as well..the felt idea sounds pretty good, i'll have to try it. somehow the idea of plastic (polyfill) being inhaled into the lungs doesn't seem very healthy to me. I don't really know if it's plastic or not, but it sure tastes like it when it burns

[KreeL]

I have stuffed countless carts with Fiberfil and not a single strand has ever ended up on my atty. Not only that, I have never experienced the 'burnt polyester taste'. Not once.

What are you doing wrong?

[TheVapSter]

yes Saosin was right coffe filters work great but a little too much of a throat hit just too much and much more vapor then poly i love the amount of vapor it produces but i have a headach from the throat hit lol so i might just go back to ploy till i can get some juice with less nic i currenty vaping 24 mg just right with poly but coffe filter to strong i think it has alot with the way you stuff it in the cart i fold like a acordian very losely in the cart that probaly lets more juice get to the atty so i guess thats the reason for more vap and the hit it produces again i guess? lol

[souporvapor]

My passthrough and I are truly enjoying the felt...
YES - it doesn't stick to the atty - easy to fill with the single fold idea.. and I believe felt is made of cotton -

Felt