Cartridge filler materials

[surbitonPete]

Started using a lipton teabag @ about 11am , it"s now 11:10 pm. I have topped off 3 times (about 10 drops each time). I"m using my SD w/a 901 atm. This is easily the smoothest best tasting method I have tried,each draw is very consistant W/great vapor. This filler beats..papertowels,coffee filters,wallmart poly,fish filters and factory carts easily!
The last thing I'm gonna do,is put a drink straw down the inside of the cart to see if the added air flow will wick the last bit of liquid out of the cart. Many thanks again Pete......Chuck

hey chuckie....let us know if the straw improves it at all, although I have so little tea bag material rolled up that there is an air gap down to the bottom of my cart anyway. I do think the air being able to get into the cart helps a lot.

[Xothin]

Since I don't have an edit button.. I meant all 88 replies.. not pages. =/

[lewnworx]

Don't go there. I find myself checking out the cosmetics shelves for cases and tweezers and suchlike, the toy shelves for novelties that might be adaptable to vaping usage, the kitchen supplies for containers and mixing tools ...

Going grocery shopping is a whole new adventure these days.

Big roger on that.

As a result of my first week of vaping...

A few pharmacies (looking for PG)
I've been in Tractor Supply (found PG)
Hobby Lobby (VG & Flavorings)
Homeless depot (looking for storage widgets)
Countless grocery stores (looking for Lorann stuff)
Electronics supply store (Shrink wrap and momentary contact switch for my home made USB passthrough)
Hobby Lobby Again (eyedroppers and little mixing bottles)

Some of these places I've never set foot in before.
My wife's already bitching that part of our kitchen cupboards are starting to look like a meth lab.

I never had this much fun with analogs.

[lewnworx]

Oh, and I'm definitely going to try the teabag thing Monday. I usually make a gallon of iced tea every day at work via lipton bags, and the tea maker has such a crappy design that it clogs and overflows when I use the bags and have been thinking of cutting them and just using coffee filters to avoid the overflow problem when I use the bags. Now I have a great use for the 8 bags I toss every day.

Who'd have thunk that esmoking would turn out to be so eco friendly?

No more tossed butts, no more ashes out the window when driving, and now a good use for non smoking related stuff.

Hoo ha!

[julliefishes]

I have been refilling my penstyle carts with up to 12 drips with no problems, the tea bag paper doesn't go mushy and it is strong enough to be rinsed out and gently washed. ....I roll half a tea bag (without the tea) up like a carpet insert the tube into my cart, trim it off and it really is working great.
My tea bags don't say anything about being hemp but as far as I know that's what they are made of but even if it's just ordinary paper...it's still better than any risk of vaping polyester. It can't have any chemicals in or we wouldn't be able to make tea with it.

A big thank you to surbitonPete for sharing his find with us. After trying out the tea bag as a cart filler, I can say this has given me the best vape yet. Once again a big thank you to surbitonPete and others who so generously share their finds with this community. They all try to make it better for the rest of us.

[ed_bollix]

Someone had asked about a 4012 cart. I just trimmed, rolled and stuffed a 401 cart and the material (tea bag) really soaked up the liquid (JC Vanilla). Really saturated nicely. I'll set up a couple of these for the day and see how things go. This is a really nice and easy solution! Accolades to the discoverer!

[malyden]

Just started trying the teabag filler idea and all I have to say is WOW it works great so far so much better than everything else i've tried thanks sooo much surbitonPete

[prr2freya]

I am still waiting for my first e-cig to arrive and I am already so prepared now! tea bags... brilliant! This forum.... BRILLIANT!

[enico]

I've been using tea bags for almost two weeks now and my cartridges seem to be lasting longer without having to refill. I've found that if I use too much that it's very hard to pull in vapor, but if I use a little less, it works perfectly and I don't get any nicotine liquid in my mouth.

The way I fill it is, fill the cartridge with liquid almost to the top. Then roll up the tea bag, insert it into the cartridge. Then cut the excess tea bag before it sucks up too much liquid. The tea bag absorbs most of the liquid. Then I add a couple more drops on top and it's ready.

I use four e-cigs throughout the day. I've found the shorter tea bag roll ups that I put inside seem to smoke easier and better.

I'm doing what others have suggested which is to get the tea bag, cut off all the sides, then cut in half. Now this works great, which is the way I suggested above. I'm using e-cigs with short cartridges so I'm actually having more success rolling these halves up and then cutting the halves in half (if that makes sense). I'm finding that instead of getting enough for two cartridges that using it for four is better for vapor production.

[potter_s]

i support the polyfill material.. its all i use