So, I dissected a G300/G220/greencig cart, along with another E9 and KR cart. Side by side, the KR and E9 carts are pretty damned close. The E9 cart has a 'wrap' of the 'mystery material' and the KR has more traditional poly for the 'outer wick.' There's a rail inside each leading from the battery hole towards the wick, for some reason, the KRs lead down nearly right to the atomizer, so unless the poly (on the KR, feels identical to the poly/fluval in 3 piece carts) witcks a *whole* lot better than we know it does, it's unlikely you'll get the whole cart moist without rolling it, filling from the mouthpiece end, etc. But, I can see how a few drops, like dripping, might be an ok idea, drops right on the atty area nearly. Oh yeah, and a lighter for a half second brings both up in nasty smelling flames on the inner wick, when moist. probably not too much of a surprise by now, but..
Will have to do the rest of the pics later, or bring it into a different thread. The greencig carts are indeed different. Mine had just started to get a slight bad taste, after vaping on it on and off for at least half the day, but not like the 'there is fire in my mouth' feeling like the burning KR carts have done, just sort of, not great, and familiar, I'd been 'topping it off' periodically, but not much, maybe a top off of a few drops every few hours or so. So, I opened the back up, mouthpiece side, which was *glued* in place, or seemed to be, and had an o-ring little seal on it. No inner silicone ring, like the KR, but about as deep as both combined, with the o-ring and a sealer as well. Once I got it open, I was confronted with something that made it obvious why I couldn't see through it, like on the KR and E9 carts...a chunk of plastic or nylon. I didn't dissect it too carefully, because I don't feel like locating the dremel right now, so butchered the cart with needlenose slowly, then grabbed onto the plastic/nylon cylinder.
Huh. Does this look *familiar* to any of you?
No? How bout now?
(the black cart and poly being a 510 cart..)
Heh. Indeed, it's a nearly traditional style coiled atomizer and a cart. The cart filling is slightly denser than my 510 or 401 cart poly, but it's poly. Filling it, it holds what looked like just over .5ml of fluid (it was quite dry when I pulled it apart). Maybe that's not much, as the 510 holds that, but...let's take a peek inside:
I'm not sure what the brown bit is, it *looks* like hair, and there seems well, a lot, but..look closely, it looks a lot like a standard 3 piece coil, doesn't it?
Need to finish yanking it apart, but not tonight, have some work to wrap up yet...but:
- this technically *is* a 'disposable standard atomizer cart,' or close to it. With the exception of the 'unknown hair' right now, which runs through the coils of the atomizer coil itself...it's pretty darn close, sort of a combination of the bridge wick and the inner atty wick in one..in this case, the battery hole leads *right* onto the coil windings, so I'd expect a drop at a time might last for a few hits 'right away.'
Ok, while I was writing this, I 'peeled' the rest of it like a grape. With the rest of the cart gone, a *small* pin, or syringe *might* be able to reach the inside cart, or it might have moved the coil. It still heats up, although I wish I had a manual switch for this thing. The 'hair,' well...seems to be hair, of some sort. A loose strand will burn by flame, but unlike the others, there's no indication that it *has* burned, from the atomizer coil itself. While the cart fill was quite dry (like driest filling I've pulled from an e-cig yet kinda dry), the 'hair' is still somewhat moist. Squeezing it together you can see some juice.
Pics of that later. But, I'd *love* to know what that inner 'hair' actually is. Assuming that's safe, and based on the other KR rip-aparts, while I think the price per cart is way overpriced...I'd say it's less 'surprising' in it's behavior..as in, it seemed to start to run dry, opened it up, and nothing burned.
I'd almost wager that with the right pair of *very* slim needlenose, you could possibly remove the inner cart by itself and refill it, or, possibly a *thin* needle through the battery hole, or just some drops and blow it out, let it sit for a bit...sadly, I'm out of greencig carts right now, but...this might hold some promise.
There does seem to also be a *small* pinhole on the bottom of the cart (facing the mouthpiece), which I'm not sure if I managed to do (I don't believe so, but need another cart)...if not, it might be possible to remove the mouthpiece and slowly drip in via the rear as well.
Hmm. Ok, what the heck is the 'hair'?
