In an effort to amuse the PV zen masters here with my follies, and possibly educate other young Padawan vapers on how to avoid getting a mouthful of juice and feeling like Jar Jar Binks, I offer these words of hard learned Joye 510 wisdom:
#1: After spending several weeks seeking the “Holy Grail” of cart mods for my 510, I’ve come to this simple conclusion: They All Suck. Don’t get me wrong, and please remember, this is just my humble opinion. I am not offering any empirical proof that one sucks more than another, and I freely admit most of them suck less than the original polyfill straight from China. However, they all suck for different reasons. Most mods are our humble attempts to defy the natural order of the universe: Put more stuff in a finite space. Logic, dictates we have to remove something from that space to put more in it. The srping mod, silicone plug mod, straw mod, paper clip mod are all geared at removing the bottom filler from the cart to create more space for juice. While they do accomplish this, my experience has been mixed. I find they leak. All of these mods require you to remove the top filler or plug to fill the cart. This gets messy at 80 miles an hour during rush hour. Before you get in the car, get three or four carts filled up and ready to go. I’ve tried most of them now: Pyramid teabags – leaked all over the place, Nylon thread – tasted like old socks and the treads would get stuck to the bridge, Tissue – 12 drops wasted. I never tried cat hair or fecal matter – just didn’t want to go there. I’ve settled on the Buff puff mod. I compress the fill a bit and I can get about 12 – 14 drops in a cart. The big complaint about this mod is, just like the original fill, juice gets stuck at the bottom of the cart. The remedy is to flick the 510 like an old style mercury thermometer and sling the juice down into the atty when it starts to fade, or top off the cart every 15 drags or so if you’re just sitting around the house. Don’t use the thermometer method on automatic batteries! You won’t be happy.
#2: If your 510 sounds like bubbling .... water, you’re about to get a mouthful of juice. It’s bubbling for one of two reasons, the cart vents have juice in them, or the atty is flooded. Stop now. Pull the cart off the atty and take a drag straight off the atty. Make sure the atty is cool before you do this as atty burns on your lips aren’t very attractive. Errr, or so I’m told
You can usually vape down the excess juice this way if you’re careful. An alternative is to carry a blank cart with no fill. Pop on the shell and vape until it clears up or you begin to taste something I liken to burnt .... If it’s just too full to do anything with, unscrew it from the battery and blow through the threaded end until it clears out. I wrap a tissue around it to avoid spewing juice all over my clothes, the furniture, and my dog. She tends to start looking at me funny when I’m doing this. I think it must be like a dog whistle. I can’t hear it but she sure does. Once you’ve got the atty cleared, you need to start thinking about the cart. Give it a little puff. If you hear juice in the chamber you need to clear it out too. That tissue will come in handy again. Loosely wrap the tissue around the end of the cart and blow as hard as you can. If you’ve blown so hard your eyes bulge out their sockets, please seek medical attention. Again, that tissue serves the same purpose of keeping the flying juice off the dog. This is where I start getting peeved. You can only put 10 to 14 drops in the cart to begin with. I’m now looking at 3 to 5 drops of juice wasted and stuck in a tissue; which brings me to my next piece of advice, or enlightenment…
#3: When it comes to Juice, less is more (more or less). Trying to squeeze that last drop in is a waste. It’s going to overfill the cart. No amount of squishing the filler around with a safety pin is going to make it soak in. Bite the bullet and dab it off with that tissue. It’s either that, or you’ll end up clearing the atty and cart out a few drags down the road. I find if I dab the cart with my juice bottle for the last last drop or two I don’t over fill. It’s like I’m getting half drops out of the bottle instead. Enough said.
#4: Your battery will die when you don’t have a spare. I guess this is really Murphy’s law applied to vaping. Mine always seems to give up the ghost right after I’ve refilled my cart and I’m getting ready to take that first great drag.
#5: When you’re halfway through your juice bottles, order more. I’m going through about 7 to 10mls of juice a day now. When I started it was closer to 15. I think I’m actually vaping about 5 or 6. The excess is waste from blowing out carts and attys. My consumption is still going down. I’m leaving a seven day window open to get supplies. I reorder when I’m down to around 40 mls on hand. If you run out, you’ll be smoking analogs again to get through. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m down to about 5 analogs a day now. I now prefer vaping over analogs, and as soon as this last pack is gone, I won’t buy any more.
#6: The taste of your vapor doesn’t fade, your tounge does. Do you find yourself topping off a cart only to find that it’s full? Do you’ll feel vapor in your mouth, and see it as you exhale, but taste or smell nothing? The nicotine in the vapor has deadened your taste buds and they are overload from the artificial flavor in your juice. Adding more flavor to juice won’t fix this. I really want to debunk this myth. Follow these steps the next time you feel like the flavor has faded but your 510 is still producing tons of vapor:
· Put your 510 down,
· Go brush your teeth and gargle with mouth wash.
· After that, gargle again with straight club soda.
· Now drink about 6 ounces more letting it sit in your mouth until the bubles go away before you swallow.
Can you taste the flavor now?
And Finally:
#7: Most e-juice burns if you accidently light it on fire! I’ll spare you the details. Let’s just say it involved a lot of rum, a dead battery, and some creative thinking….. Live and learn.
#1: After spending several weeks seeking the “Holy Grail” of cart mods for my 510, I’ve come to this simple conclusion: They All Suck. Don’t get me wrong, and please remember, this is just my humble opinion. I am not offering any empirical proof that one sucks more than another, and I freely admit most of them suck less than the original polyfill straight from China. However, they all suck for different reasons. Most mods are our humble attempts to defy the natural order of the universe: Put more stuff in a finite space. Logic, dictates we have to remove something from that space to put more in it. The srping mod, silicone plug mod, straw mod, paper clip mod are all geared at removing the bottom filler from the cart to create more space for juice. While they do accomplish this, my experience has been mixed. I find they leak. All of these mods require you to remove the top filler or plug to fill the cart. This gets messy at 80 miles an hour during rush hour. Before you get in the car, get three or four carts filled up and ready to go. I’ve tried most of them now: Pyramid teabags – leaked all over the place, Nylon thread – tasted like old socks and the treads would get stuck to the bridge, Tissue – 12 drops wasted. I never tried cat hair or fecal matter – just didn’t want to go there. I’ve settled on the Buff puff mod. I compress the fill a bit and I can get about 12 – 14 drops in a cart. The big complaint about this mod is, just like the original fill, juice gets stuck at the bottom of the cart. The remedy is to flick the 510 like an old style mercury thermometer and sling the juice down into the atty when it starts to fade, or top off the cart every 15 drags or so if you’re just sitting around the house. Don’t use the thermometer method on automatic batteries! You won’t be happy.
#2: If your 510 sounds like bubbling .... water, you’re about to get a mouthful of juice. It’s bubbling for one of two reasons, the cart vents have juice in them, or the atty is flooded. Stop now. Pull the cart off the atty and take a drag straight off the atty. Make sure the atty is cool before you do this as atty burns on your lips aren’t very attractive. Errr, or so I’m told
You can usually vape down the excess juice this way if you’re careful. An alternative is to carry a blank cart with no fill. Pop on the shell and vape until it clears up or you begin to taste something I liken to burnt .... If it’s just too full to do anything with, unscrew it from the battery and blow through the threaded end until it clears out. I wrap a tissue around it to avoid spewing juice all over my clothes, the furniture, and my dog. She tends to start looking at me funny when I’m doing this. I think it must be like a dog whistle. I can’t hear it but she sure does. Once you’ve got the atty cleared, you need to start thinking about the cart. Give it a little puff. If you hear juice in the chamber you need to clear it out too. That tissue will come in handy again. Loosely wrap the tissue around the end of the cart and blow as hard as you can. If you’ve blown so hard your eyes bulge out their sockets, please seek medical attention. Again, that tissue serves the same purpose of keeping the flying juice off the dog. This is where I start getting peeved. You can only put 10 to 14 drops in the cart to begin with. I’m now looking at 3 to 5 drops of juice wasted and stuck in a tissue; which brings me to my next piece of advice, or enlightenment…#3: When it comes to Juice, less is more (more or less). Trying to squeeze that last drop in is a waste. It’s going to overfill the cart. No amount of squishing the filler around with a safety pin is going to make it soak in. Bite the bullet and dab it off with that tissue. It’s either that, or you’ll end up clearing the atty and cart out a few drags down the road. I find if I dab the cart with my juice bottle for the last last drop or two I don’t over fill. It’s like I’m getting half drops out of the bottle instead. Enough said.
#4: Your battery will die when you don’t have a spare. I guess this is really Murphy’s law applied to vaping. Mine always seems to give up the ghost right after I’ve refilled my cart and I’m getting ready to take that first great drag.
#5: When you’re halfway through your juice bottles, order more. I’m going through about 7 to 10mls of juice a day now. When I started it was closer to 15. I think I’m actually vaping about 5 or 6. The excess is waste from blowing out carts and attys. My consumption is still going down. I’m leaving a seven day window open to get supplies. I reorder when I’m down to around 40 mls on hand. If you run out, you’ll be smoking analogs again to get through. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m down to about 5 analogs a day now. I now prefer vaping over analogs, and as soon as this last pack is gone, I won’t buy any more.
#6: The taste of your vapor doesn’t fade, your tounge does. Do you find yourself topping off a cart only to find that it’s full? Do you’ll feel vapor in your mouth, and see it as you exhale, but taste or smell nothing? The nicotine in the vapor has deadened your taste buds and they are overload from the artificial flavor in your juice. Adding more flavor to juice won’t fix this. I really want to debunk this myth. Follow these steps the next time you feel like the flavor has faded but your 510 is still producing tons of vapor:
· Put your 510 down,
· Go brush your teeth and gargle with mouth wash.
· After that, gargle again with straight club soda.
· Now drink about 6 ounces more letting it sit in your mouth until the bubles go away before you swallow.
Can you taste the flavor now?
And Finally:
#7: Most e-juice burns if you accidently light it on fire! I’ll spare you the details. Let’s just say it involved a lot of rum, a dead battery, and some creative thinking….. Live and learn.
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