Cartomizer Help

[Noodoggy]

i love the stuff that comes up in this forum! i had discovered something about 3 weeks ago when i was tailpiping on a carto. juice was pooling at the top of the filling...even though i had been vaping on the carto for a while. that led me to think about the effects of blowing into a carto...which is exactly what we are talking about here! blowing will blow out juice and if you keep doing it more will come out, just like you discovered. shaking it like thermometer will do the same...just plain physics. but what i have been doing is taking advantage of that...by filling from the mouthpiece...and shaking or flicking it once...to get the liquid down to the bottom...add a few more drops...flick again (usually the filling "looks" dry after i flick it) and continue to do it that way until when i flick it, the filling doesnt seem to look any dryer. i check to see if i can see thru the carto and if not, just quickly puff on the threaded end to clear out the middle and the excess juice just sits on the top of the filling ready to be absorbed properly. i seem to be able to refill cartos better this way with more juice in fillings. when i have tried to drip only from the top, it takes too long to absorb and the top gets saturated and then spills into the center channel and of course comes out the threaded end. so maybe my little quirky method might work for ya.

now onto my further musings...about the fact that lower air pressure caused by sucking in while vaping pulls juice towards the mouth....how come cartos are not designed to take advantage of this? in the cartos i have used ( mind you not that many...i am only 2 months into this) all of the vaporizers / atomizers are in the middle or towards the battery end of the carto. by the time you have vaped for a little while, alot of the liquid has been pulled up towards the mouth piece by suction. meanwhile, the atomizer is high and dry. not good. any one know of any different cartomizers that are an exception to my observations? also how can we design a carto so that it takes advatage of the suction to supply juice to the atomizer but of course preventing it from going into your mouth. an added consideration is the distance the heated and vaporized liquid has to travel after the atomizer to reach the mouth. dont want superheated vapor yet want something close enough to provided the warmth and throat hit we so crave.

thanks for listening =)
May all your vapes be everlasting!

 

[dave_walton]

I have tried using the condom method and I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, I put 10 drops in the condom and push the carto in. I'm not sure which end I should be pushing in as I have seen it done both ways but when pushing the mouthpiece end in first I hardly get any in before liquid appears at the battery connecter.

10 drops doesn't seem too much to me to be getting in there so maybe i'm doing it wrong?

 

[N2rock]

You should push it from the battery end, and you have to go very slow, especially with thicker juices. But I can tell you- I used the condom method for weeks when I first started using cartos. And the condom method is not as efficient or effective as just dripping into it. I can fill a carto in no time at all by pulling off the mouthpiece and dripping in. I'm too busy to spend time filling these things. I use one carto and just keep refilling it thru the day. I never let it go dry, so refilling it takes a minute.

 

[nerak]

You don't blow in the top mouth part, you blow in the battery end. You are trying to clear the tube right...so the tube connects on the bottom, at the battery end. If you blow from the top you are forcing liquid DOWN the tube! Hope this helps you.

 

[Kiska927]

Thank you all for the help and info. I've only been doing this for a few days, so I guess with time I'm get the hang of it and figure out what works best for me. I seem to have been doing better with the carto filling already, and I'm up to 10 with a different flavor in each. My guess is within a month I'll have at least 100 all with different flavors, since I'm a nut and need to try everything.

On a side note, I'm so happy to have found this forum. Although between reading the posts, and searching the various e-cig sites, I have consumed most of my days and nights with this for the last week. I'm off analogs though, so its all worth it in my opinion.

 

[N2rock]

hahaha... Yeah my first month I had so many cartos filled with so many flavors. Ultimately I realized there were some of those flavors that I was never going to go back to, and ended up tossing a bunch of cartos away. I now have 5 flavors that I use. So now cartos tend to last me a bit longer LOL

 

[dave_walton]

Some really great tips here thanks. One thing I have found work with carto's is that if you boil them in a pan of water for 15 minutes you can clean them and give them another go. After boiling let them dry out before refilling. Only works once but still it prolongs their life and get's rid of that flavour you didn't like.

 

[MoonDance]

Great info!