Carto being weird

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klstreet

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my volt cartos just started acting weird after I refilled it this time, it still has great flavor, still produces a lot of vapor, but all of a sudden I have to inhale extremely hard to activate my automatic battery. I thas to be the carto, cause it doesn't do that with any of my othe cartos, any ideas? should I just throw it out?
 

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I used to soak them in vodka, and with a plastic syringe with an adaptor would flush it trough several times. Then I rinsed with cold water, since boiling water shrinks and damages the filler.

Eventually I realized cleaning cartos doesn't help much since most of the gunk near the coil can't really be removed completely. On the other hand, with clearomizers you can effectively remove the gunk by dry burning and rinsing.
 

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I've been thinking of getting a clearomizer anyway, but good news, I cleaned my battery connection and threads really good and it works fine now, still weird i wasnt having the problem with other carts but glad i dont have to throw it out cause I only have three cartos till my next order comes in lol
 

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Sounds like you overfilled, or you had a drop of juice in the battery connection or on the top of the battery. Anytime a carto stops producing as much vapor check things in this order.

1. Is carto filled.
2. Is battery charged (in my experience, the last couple of puffs don't produce much vapor
3. Unscrew carto and wipe both connections with a tissue or Qtip to get juice and condensation out (this is almost always the cause if the answer to 1&2 is yes)
4. Clean the battery and carto connections like steeljan demonstrates

Personally, I don't clean the cartos at all, other than cleaning the connection. I dont switch Flavors in cartos though since the old flavor will always linger. The few exceptions would be if I go from mint to mint or fruit to fruit and I don't mind mixing them. By the second refill the first flavor is usually gone. I only do this if I'm not going to go back to the original flavor. For example, I want a fan of the cherry from my sampler pack, so when it was empty, I refilled with chocolate. If you have a flavor and don't like it, you can try a reverse tayrn soon to get out the juice in there and then refill with a different juice, but again, you will get crossover on the first fill or two.

On a side note, unless you are using very high percentage vg juice, your cartos should last. I have been using the same 5 cartos for a month now and they are still going strong. Each on has been refilled at least 15 times.
 

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Yes, especially if it is very airy, check for juice or condensation. That almost always is the cause. If its really airy and that doesn't work, rescrew the carto on and try wrapping your finger around the connection where the air holes are. If it works, then it is definitely a bad connection or there is air in the battery switch.
 
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