Am I the only one?

[dguer3rd]

I know i cant be, but it seems like alot of people here dont like their cartos(and whatnot) having more than one flavor od juice going in between cleanings. I just stick to juices that arent a drastic change and go between them w/o a full clean. Ill use a syringe to pull as much juice out of the polyfill as i can(w/o being to ....), refill n vape away.

 

[Dandafixr]

i do the same, i have one carto i do fruit flavors in and one for coffee and another for tobbacco

 

[Cameron182]

I do that same thing or I will use a plunger kit!

 

[Skennard]

Yep I keep to similar flavors. But I just vape through the previous flavor

 

[Flying W]

I mix like flavors and use a new cart when I change to a different type flavor. Everclear clean out weekly .

 

[dlsw]

I don't clean any of them but will vape minttobaccochocolatecaramel until it is time to throw it away. Some of the mixes have been good and I wish I'd been better at keeping track of what is going into what.

 

[ITPython]

I haven't had much luck using more than one flavor in a carto, even if they are similar. And cleaning cartos seems to be next to impossible, as the previous flavor always seems to stick around no matter how many times I plunge clean with a syringe and then vodka rinse.

Haven't tried boiling though, but for only 1 or 2 cartos it seems like too much effort.

 

[nansc]

I do the same thing I'm too lazy to keep changing.

 

[murrajes]

Even though I use a drip method with atomizers, I do the same thing. BUT...don't try and vape your way through a root beer juice. It just ain't gonna happen! LOL! Man....I need to throw that juice out and resign myself to the fact that I just HATE it, even though I love root beer.

 

[ctourtelot]

I lost a good carto on a pumpkin pie juice once. It just doesn't translate well into vaping. No amount of cleaning was cutting through that nasty taste lol

 

[cricque]

Menthol sticks also, but for the rest I just keep menthol/mint etc in the same carto. Tobacco in the same

 

[ITPython]

Tonight I decided to try an experiment. I had a carto in a tank (with two holes) that I had been vaping for a few days. The juice I was vaping was 100% VG Highway from LF. It got to the point where it just tasted weird and burnt, so I decided to attempt to clean it out. First I just did some light cleaning of the inner-tube with a paperclip and some toilet paper, got some of that black gunk out (but not nearly all of it).

Then I decided to use the syringe method to plunge hot water in and out through the carto, followed by a vodka rinsing to infinitely speed up the drying process (only takes a few minuets to dry with when you do it this way with a Taryn spin and blowing out a few times). Only difference was that this carto has the holes for the tank that my other cartos did not have.

As I suspected, this cleaned out the carto infinitesimally better than cleaning without the holes, as with the regular method there is this 1/8" area on the bottom of the carto stuffing that is nearly impossible to clean due to it being slightly below the 'pole' that sticks out inside the cart (unless you have ripped a carto apart, you probably won't understand this). Well the additional holes make it so when cleaning, the entire stuffing is soaked and cleansed, not just the limited area near the hole in the middle (think path of least resistance).

I was able to remove every last bit of smell from my previous juice which had almost made the stuffing black. I proceeded to install a new flavor after the carto was properly dried and was surprised at how fresh the new juice tasted and had no signs of the previous flavor interfering.

So lesson of the day? Tank holes make for easy and more throughout cleaning when using the syringe method to for plunging hot water in/out of the carto! Heck, even vaping the carto with the open holes and no tank makes for better air-flow and seemed to be a more positive vaping experience. I might just poke holes in all my cartos even if they aren't going into a tank! Sure there may be leaking, but the longer condom that came with my cartos fits right over the holes I made for the tank, so this also makes for easy Taryn spin filling with no leaking.

 

[kidbeaster]

I bought my cartos in bulk. 15-20 at a time. I feel there cheap enough if I get a flavor I don't like I simply throw the carto away.

If I want to switch a flavor I'll take the carto I used and put a rubber band around the carto and juice bottle I previously used and come back to it later. I tried cleaning them before but with the amount of time involved and for me they were never as good as a fresh carto it just didn't seem worth it.

 

[ctourtelot]

+1 on rubber banding it to the bottle. I do that with my clearos a lot.

 

[oldsoldier]

cartos are so cheap that I rarely worry about it -- if i change flavors I change carto. If Im running short on cartos I'll try to change to a flavor in the same family but other than that I really don't worry about it.

 

[vafromnc]

I'll sometimes add different juice to a carto and end up with a flavor that I'd kill to have.
Like DK-Peach or something.
Oh, well.