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I am curious to know this as well. Newbie to the whole scene but trying to understand how everything works together.
It appears that most folks that buy the XL SS Cartos do so to make APVs. I have played around with a few homemade tanks using the XL SS Cartos with varied success/failures using small lexan tubing. My conclusions are it is cheaper to buy these products than it is to make them although it was a very good learning experience. If you go to the DIY sub Forum under the "Tanks Topic" there are many designs you can make at home using the XL SS cartos with drawings and assembly instructions but I have plenty to do as it is and decided to just stick with my SI Clearos for now.
I watched a video the other day where a guy made a tank out of a 5ml plastic nicotine liquid bottle. No gaskets or seals at all and used nothing more complicated than a hammer to make the hole in the bottom of the bottle and a sheetrock screw to make a hole in the carto. If I had a 5ml bottle around I might give it a try for a laugh, I've got the cartos.
Incidentally, SI cartos are among the very best available so they would probably work out very well in an application like this.
I built three based on one of the drawings from the Modders - Tank Sub Forum, they all worked but call me lazy. I can buy Clearos for less money than the 4 hours of labor I put into the three and I had to go buy o-rings and I wish I had just taken out a Hammer and been done with it. When I first started Vaping I bought 20 of the XL SS Cartos before I watched Mr. Outlaws video on Clearos, so if you want a couple to experiment with I'll be happy to send them your way. 10 of them are still in the boxes.
All the guy did was take the drip tip off the bottle, take the mouthpiece off the carto, stuff it (mouthpiece end first) into the bottle and centered it on the bottom, gave it a hard hit with a hammer on a piece of wood to cut out the hole in the bottom, pushed it through the hole, filled and went on his merry way vaping it. Couldn't have taken more than five minutes including punching the carto and no leaks at all! He did take the time to prefill the carto though and had to use a comfort style tip. I've got 9 XLs after retiring one because of a heavy VG vanilla I had in it, couldn't clean it out.
This morning I ordered a tank with carto along with an extra punched carto from Parkes Vaping. Here's a link if anyone's interested:
Carto Tank Mods
I got the "Chibi" 3.0. Just have to let them know you need 808 threading in the comments when you check out.
This should be interesting. If I like this setup I'm probably going to buy an SI XL battery, some extra SI cartos and a carto hole puncher.
Carto Tank Mods
I got the "Chibi" 3.0. Just have to let them know you need 808 threading in the comments when you check out.
This should be interesting. If I like this setup I'm probably going to buy an SI XL battery, some extra SI cartos and a carto hole puncher.
Got my "chibi" tank today. Filled the carto, then tank, with some 80/20 juice, let it sit for a bit. Put it on my 78mm auto Volt. Wowsa wow. Good TH, good flavor, ease of draw, and tons of vapor. And the chibi looks so cool on my Volt. I'm impressed with my first tank.
Glad it's not seeping on you, that seems to be a basic problem fro carto tanks. I just got a 78mm manual battery and can't say I like manuals at all. Guess tanks are out for me, anyway, unless I start liking manual batteries.
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