901/510 cartless mod

[acecase]

I'm not sure if this has been done. I haven't seen it anywhere though so I figured I would post it here. I plan on doing a youtube video some time today (I'll post a link when I do) so if it has been done, someone let me know so I don't make an ... of myself showing off my great "old" new idea.

Basically, this came to me when I noticed a little plastic meltage on my 901 cart. I didn't like the idea of smoking the plastic so I thought of a way to do away with it.

What I did first was just pulled my tea bag wadding out of my cart (I'm sure the normal wadding would be fine too) and just tucked it kindof loosely down into the recess area of the atty so that it's in good contact with the atty's wick but not touching the heating element.

You can just use it like this but I got a lot of juice on my lips doing it this way so I got an old cart and just cut off the part that did slide down to the wick. You can see that the cart tapers twice. The first taper is the one that holds tight to the atty walls to hold the cart on, and the second tapers down and that part goes deeper into the atty. I just cut at the second taper line and it works great.

Another idea is to use the disc-like tip (the one with the small hole for drawing) from my round 510 carts to place on the end. This would be cool because it takes a significant amount of length off of the PV and it looks cool. However, as some of you are probably already thinking, the small protrusion from the draw-hole acts like a straw and I filled my mouth with liquid. Not as unpleasant as everyone lets on, but not great at all. I plan on cutting that "straw" off and I think this will be a great method.

Obviously, this has it's downside. Mainly in that it won't hold as much juice as a full cart. However, the good outweighs the bad in my opinion. It may be a placebo affect, but it seems to make the vapor taste better.

Carts are cheap so give it a shot. I would just advise that you be careful not to push the wadding down on the heating element, as that could potentially ruin the atty.

Good luck, and thanks for participating in this forum. A lot of great information here thanks to the admin(s), mods, and mostly the members. Great forum.

 

[acecase]

Sorry to double post, but I don't seem to have an edit option. One note to anyone who is thinking of trying the discuss-tip method. This does have your lips touching the metal, heat conducting, wall of the atty. I wouldn't recommend it for heavy vapors as this does get HOT, especially on the 510. It works for me, but I vape 1-4 hits at a time all day. Just a note to consider.

 

[kinabaloo]

Funny enough, I have recently played with this arrangement. Made a pea sized ball of cart filler and put down the tube surrounding the metal bridge, applied quite a few drops and found air could travel round it ok. Haven't thought more about it till now (have been too busy working on my vaping buzz website).

Not saying this is good or wise, just that it's not quite as stupid as it might at first seem. Could drip more than one normally can when dripping and dont have to plug in an (empty) cart.

So I wouldnt yet consider it as a tip. But a spark that might lead to something ...

Some people will be very nervous about the possibilities for the filler burning - and that is possible, but I didnt find that happened in my case. The idea would be to do/design something similar, but in a way that ensured that could not happen ...

ps: reading the above posts again, what I did was much simpler, no straws or anything, just a ball of filler down around the metal bridge. Extra juice holding capacity IN the atty for dripping. (A piece of cotton-bud tube could be used quite easily to ensure air flow.)

I came across this by accident. The filler caught with the metal mesh and stayed their on removing the cart. So I thought ok, let's try it like that.

Thinking more about it now, I realise that attys could be specifically made for dripping, so that the considerable cart-connecting space is simply filled up with metal foam, while leaving a couple of air flow holes and a rim to largely avoid possible leakage.

Big potential market here, manufacturers take note! Work on the design some more and make them please ...

edit: (have now rewritten these ideas into a proper article, here: http://www.tji-java-ide.com/e-cigar...specifically-for-dripping&catid=52:innovation)

 

[acecase]

Don't try this with the 901!

My 510 had no trouble handling this, but I suspect I killed 2 901 attys with it. They never did vape anything like the 510, but after doing this with them for a few hours each, one is dead and the other produces almost no vapor.

Mods should probably kill this thread. Most people here probably knew it was a bad idea when I posted it, but some, like me, may try it. I don't want to be responsible for causing people problems.

 

[kinabaloo]

There's little reason to think that 901s in particular (that's what i use), or any atty, could suffer through this. Naturally, though anything we try is at our own risk.

I'm not suggesting this as a useful tip (though I personally find it useful); for me, the interesting thing was that it led to the idea that there could be attys made specifically for dripping that would hold more juice, so not needing to drip so often.

So acecase, you can be pleased at having stirred the idea

 

[mnealtx]

I've got a 510 cart that I use just for dripping that I've cut off the entire lower section - works fine. I haven't put any wicking into the atomizer itself, though.