The only cartos I use are those that get thrown away after they become useless.
Am I the only one getting burned out? Why can't this be easier for me?!?
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Replacing cartos is the best option. You can flood them with juice & blow through them and you'll get some black stuff out. If the Cato tastes burnt there's no saving it as the filler is scorched. The other issue is that eventually a coil needs to be dry burned to clean it and that's impossible with a carto. Cartos are hit and miss some will last long and some not so much. I had one that lasted a really really long time just blowing it out every few days. The most important thing with cartos is to make sure a fresh one is fully soaked and saturated as long as possible before you fire it.
Sweeter darker juices gunk them up faster. vaping some flavorless nic base can help also, as its clear and burns the cleanest. Just vape unflavored for one tank or half a tank and it will extend the life.
Sweeter darker juices gunk them up faster. vaping some flavorless nic base can help also, as its clear and burns the cleanest. Just vape unflavored for one tank or half a tank and it will extend the life.
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I guess just replacing them is why a 5-pk is so cheap; makes sense to me. The friend who sent it to me advised me to only use juice in it that I truly love, as apparently there's no getting the taste out of it once it's been used, and that's fine, I just have the one that I use 95% of the time anyway, and it's very high PG (85%) and quite thin, so it shouldn't gunk up anything. Not really sure I could deal with unflavored. The only thing that really made this vaping business possible for me as a replacement for cigarettes was when I found the e-juice that tastes so similar to the cigs I smoked -- Virginia Slims -- it's a very mild, light taste, but very definitely a good taste; hint of apple, whisper of cinnamon, and the mild savory tobacco. Vaping unflavored strikes me about the same way as when I once tried RYO tobacco... eeeeuuuuwwwwww -- or the nicotine gum that my mom used when she quit. Just bleah, IMO -- the only gum I've ever liked was Juicy Fruit!
Andria
I clean my cartos. I use Everclear, but I have learned if you can get a carto into clean water as soon as you take it out of the tank, you have a better chance of getting the flavor out. I have a carto cleaner kit and it works well for me!
Cartomizer/Atomizer Cleaning Kit - With 10ml Control Syringe, Luer-lock compatible w/cleaning tubes and instructions
I've gotten a lot of comments about reusing them, but I can't always afford to go buy new ones as soon as I need them and it works! I've used just distilled water before and it worked fine, some people say to use rubbing alcohol, but others say that's NOT a good idea and I understand why. Do a general google search on how to clean cartos, there's a lot of info out there.
Cartomizer/Atomizer Cleaning Kit - With 10ml Control Syringe, Luer-lock compatible w/cleaning tubes and instructions
I've gotten a lot of comments about reusing them, but I can't always afford to go buy new ones as soon as I need them and it works! I've used just distilled water before and it worked fine, some people say to use rubbing alcohol, but others say that's NOT a good idea and I understand why. Do a general google search on how to clean cartos, there's a lot of info out there.
Geez, I feel positively deprived. I have ONE battery, 2 T3S and an ARO pyrex (and one working coil between the 3 of them so I guess I have to slap up some courage and get those others dry-burned), and I still have my eRoll, which at this point is just for those times when I *need* to feel something like a cigarette in my hand. In my T3S tanks, I keep one for my 8mg daytime juice, and one for my 6mg night time juice -- a clear tank for day, and a "smoke" tank for evening, so I can tell which is which!!
However, when I get that $100 from my mom, and the fed refund in May, this deprivation will change... MUST BUY CARTOMIZERS!!!
Andria
One of the consistently best deals on cartomizers are from here
MULTI BOX CARTO DEALS
I have a friend that can not have any alcohol in the house as well...what he does is immediately rinse in warm water then soak in pure PG overnight to help prolong the life of his cartos. he will then "blow out the excess" right before loading. It does not remove all remaining flavor but it does help him use the cartos much longer
Well I did it, I think, pretty much. I dry-burned all my coils. 
One of them, when I "primed" it with a couple drops of juice, apparently got too wet, it's still gurgling, so I'll let it sit for awhile; that was an extra anyway, so it's no hardship to just leave it be for awhile. I discovered also that there wasn't a thing wrong with the ARO coil, I guess it just stayed wet after I had rinsed it out a few days ago, which was causing it to gurgle. After sitting for a few days, it was perfectly fine. Though I did replace the flavor wicks in it, they were kind of a mess, but otherwise that coil was pristine. And yeah, the 100% cotton flavor wicks do seem to give me more taste than those silica ones did. I used 3 strands of (boiled) 100% cotton that I got from the running-stitch edging on some 100% cotton washcloths, and in the ARO I used 4 strands.
I know my fear of doing this must seem ridiculous, but I am NOT mechanically inclined at all, unless you count the ability to screw up anything.
Even doing this, I was Ms. FumbleThumbs personified, knocking crap over, not being able to hang on to those little tiny wicks... *sigh* My hands shake a lot, and that makes it very difficult. That hand-shaking thing is why I stopped being the one to put stuff in my computer, cards and whatnot, and get my husband to do it, he's very steady. I REALLY! need some SHARP tiny scissors. But now that I think I get how to do this, it seemed to work anyway, maybe later I won't be so terrified of this idea of rebuilding things. But I still like the carto idea, NOTHING to rebuild or dry burn, just use it till it's toast, toss and replace.
At least now, I know I won't run out of functional coils before that pkg of 3 gets here. *whew*
Andria
One of them, when I "primed" it with a couple drops of juice, apparently got too wet, it's still gurgling, so I'll let it sit for awhile; that was an extra anyway, so it's no hardship to just leave it be for awhile. I discovered also that there wasn't a thing wrong with the ARO coil, I guess it just stayed wet after I had rinsed it out a few days ago, which was causing it to gurgle. After sitting for a few days, it was perfectly fine. Though I did replace the flavor wicks in it, they were kind of a mess, but otherwise that coil was pristine. And yeah, the 100% cotton flavor wicks do seem to give me more taste than those silica ones did. I used 3 strands of (boiled) 100% cotton that I got from the running-stitch edging on some 100% cotton washcloths, and in the ARO I used 4 strands. I know my fear of doing this must seem ridiculous, but I am NOT mechanically inclined at all, unless you count the ability to screw up anything.
Even doing this, I was Ms. FumbleThumbs personified, knocking crap over, not being able to hang on to those little tiny wicks... *sigh* My hands shake a lot, and that makes it very difficult. That hand-shaking thing is why I stopped being the one to put stuff in my computer, cards and whatnot, and get my husband to do it, he's very steady. I REALLY! need some SHARP tiny scissors. But now that I think I get how to do this, it seemed to work anyway, maybe later I won't be so terrified of this idea of rebuilding things. But I still like the carto idea, NOTHING to rebuild or dry burn, just use it till it's toast, toss and replace.At least now, I know I won't run out of functional coils before that pkg of 3 gets here. *whew*
Andria
One of the great things about a bottom-feeder like the Reo is that you aren't REALLY stuck with one juice if you don't want to be.
When I use my Reo it is filled with my go-to vape juice, but you can always drip another one from the top if you want.
I probably use my Reo more by dripping from the top than from squonking.
But then I like to change flavors all the time.
One of the great things about a bottom-feeder like the Reo is that you aren't REALLY stuck with one juice if you don't want to be.
When I use my Reo it is filled with my go-to vape juice, but you can always drip another one from the top if you want.
I probably use my Reo more by dripping from the top than from squonking.
But then I like to change flavors all the time.
On my REOs I just change the bottle, blow out the tube and rinse the atty. Voila new flavor. I have about 8 flavors in bottles ready to roll at any given time.
I have one of those kits. I tried it once and made a mess of things...LOL
I can still see being able to use it for something if I ever get back into the geeky part of vaping again. My life has sort of taken over.
Lol the geeky part of vaping! More like the broke part of vaping lol.
I've made my share of messes too!
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I've made my share of messes too!
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I have more money these days than I did in years past so I got lucky (sort of - got it from an inheritance).
Sorry to hear this. I've been having issues too having quit just 9 weeks ago. My issue is with the juices. Every time I find a great all day juice I enjoy it for about a day or two but then it becomes sickly and makes me feel sick in the process. Getting costly given the amount of many flavors I keep buying to try and find the perfect one. I think I may be vaping too much which may be the issue.
What juices are you using?. Don't be afraid to try unflavored. It's not bad at all... Lots of us here use it. The higher the nic levels the more it has a nicotine/ cigarette taste. You sound like a candidate to use it as it won't give you those a flavor issues. I recommend wizard labs nic base. 250ml for like 18.00 or so... Edit- oh I see your across the pond, maybe liberty flights then. .. I've always had good luck with hangsen flavors.
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Yeah, I use mostly unflavored. It doesn't taste like much and nothing offensive.
Occasionally I'll break out a flavor, but mostly I stick to the plain or the plain mixed in with a little Lush Deckard Cain tobacco flavor that I get from Synergy Vapor here in town.
That seems so unpleasant lol. Sounds like there are more people vaping flavorless then I would have thought. One of my favorite parts of vaping is all the flavors. I have several ADVs lol.
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I had/have a hard time finding a flavor I like for very long, if I like it at all. I have a metric ton of juices that I will never use because they just all taste ick to me. Mind you, many of the most popular flavors you'll hear about on this very forum are included among them.
I discovered that plain is really neutral and is good as an ADV and you don't get burned out on it.
Yea, I have a lot that I don't like either, most of the ones I do like were found by accident lol.
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It seems that every now and then I come across a person that can vape the same juice every day and not get sick of it.
I don't understand those people, and most certainly never will.
I'll get sick of ANY juice if I keep vaping it without switching things up.
There are a lot of foods I love to eat.
I can't think of any of them that I can eat every day without getting sick of them.
Well, maybe pepperoni pizza.
Vaping the same flavor all the time just isn't natural as far as I'm concerned.
Unless of course that flavor is just really benign.
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