stainless steel mesh as cartridge medium

[Bertrand]

some pics of this would be nice

******** <-- cheesecloth (or similar)
|--__--| <-- stainless steel mesh
|******| /
|******| <-/
\****/
|***|
|***|
-----

stupid wysiwg insists on mangling even courier fonts, but you get the idea.

[Bertrand]

I tried the "spring behind the mesh" idea. It doesn't work if you put it behind the mesh. The mesh is solidly in there and will not slide. However if you put the spring between the mouthpiece and the actual cartridge (on the DSE901) is does work (so far).

A few notes:
1. file down the plastic ridges on the cartridge to get it to slide smoothly in the mouthpiece.
2. since there will now be the force of the spring acting on the atomizer/cartridge connector, you will probably need to give the atomizer a bit of the hammer treatment to get a stronger fit.
3. You will cut yourself.

I also need to find a better spring for this. (You can taste the nickel poisoning in every draw.) It would be good to get a weaker spring too - I used one out of a pen.

I've only just put it together, so am not sure if it will start leaking into the mouthpiece or fail to get absorbed into the atomizer.

It struck me while I was doing this how similar the problem is to that of a fountain pen. These have a series of capillary tunnels connecting the reservoir to the nib that are not far off the size of the gaps in the "tea pot" mesh. (I wouldn't mind getting a Lamy e-cigarette...)

[Bertrand]

Reporting back on the spring between the cart and mouthpiece. Doesn't work, at least with tea mesh. You end up with liquid in the mouth.

Atomizer mesh covering the tea mesh seems to work so far (no spring.)

[Dr. Russell Fell]

Has anyone tried stuffing it with just a rolled up piece of cotton?

[angiicat]

Hey anyone have a fix for an atomizer that the steel wool came out of? I'm dying to vape but only have the one atomizer and the steel wool came out and don't want to burn my entire thing up but I'm thinkin an analog is sounding tasty right about now until I get my new atomizer.

Any suggestions?

~the 'misses her vapor' Cat

[Bertrand]

Has anyone tried stuffing it with just a rolled up piece of cotton?

Yes. (Cheesecloth again - it's very porous and not as likely to get bits of it stuck in the atomizer like a piece of cotton wool.) It works quite well to begin with, but once it gets saturated it ends up about as good (sligthly wetter - more vapour, more likely to get liquid in the mouth) as the original stuffing, except that it tends to compress more, so you need to keep digging it out to keep contact with the atomizer.

On the tea strainer mesh with atomizer mesh cover, this is working quite well so far. You can still fill it easily (you need to push down with the eyedropper.) I put two eyedroppers full of the smaller JC bottle in each time it empties (which it seems to do completely). Wicking seems pretty good, and none ends up in the mouth. I would expect that eventually it will stop connecting with the atomizer, and at that point you would need to pull the stainless steel mesh up a bit to regain contact, but this hasn't happened yet. This has been the best option I've tried.

The atomizer mesh (which in my 901 atomizer seemed to be the *only* medium for the e-liquid - there wasn't any nylon in there) looks a lot like and feels a lot like aluminium. Probably stainless steel would be preferable, but I'm not too concerned. Aluminium has gotten a bad reputation from its links to alzheimers, but for cooking in aluminium pans you apparently get something in the order of 1% absorption as what you would get from an antacid. I would expect this to be around the same for its use in the atomizer / cartridge.

[Bertrand]

Hey anyone have a fix for an atomizer that the steel wool came out of? I'm dying to vape but only have the one atomizer and the steel wool came out and don't want to burn my entire thing up but I'm thinkin an analog is sounding tasty right about now until I get my new atomizer.

Any suggestions?

~the 'misses her vapor' Cat

Drip. The mesh just draws the liquid into the atomizer.

[edisme518123]

Has anyone tried taking a sheet of steel mesh, cutting it down to a small square, then cutting at an angle.
You could then roll the sheet into a cylinder starting with the shorter end on the inside to create a dome at the top.
It would look like this:

The atomizer wool would sit in contact with the top of the dome.

[Bertrand]

Has anyone tried taking a sheet of steel mesh, cutting it down to a small square, then cutting at an angle.
You could then roll the sheet into a cylinder starting with the shorter end on the inside to create a dome at the top.
It would look like this:

The atomizer wool would sit in contact with the top of the dome.

Yes. The atomizer still deforms the metal, which unlike the nylon filling does not bounce back. It works for a while and then loses contact.

[MagusSteele]

Time to buy some real fine Steel Wool and stuff some in there instead.
0000 i think is the finest.
I am not sure about rust, but it shouldnt because of the PG