Did I just kill all my cartos?

[want to quit]

So yesterday I tried for the first time ever to clean my GoGo Cartos. Put them in almost boiling water and then used this goose thingy to flush out the juice out of the cartos. Let them stand overnight until they were dried out. Now I filled two of them up with juice and tried to get a hit and no vapor production. Did I do something wrong?

 

[want to quit]

I do get the sound that you get when the carto is connected to the unit but it wont produce any vapor!!!! Smart person that I am I took all my 20 cartos to clean them and thus far 5 of them wont produce any vapor help please.

 

[uba egar320]

Are you sure they are completely dry? Don't have those style cartos, but it sounds like they are still wet. There have been lots of threads on cleaning cartos. Maybe try a quick search, and see how they were going about drying them quicker. I heard mention of using the oven once. But I don;t know the ins and outs of doing it this way. Good luck!

 

[want to quit]

they were drier then the desert this morning. Filled them up attached them to my GoGo and I get the sound that you normally get but 0 vapor. Oh my goodness will I be ...... if I cant fix this.

 

[longworthb]

i did the same thing with my 808 cartos when i first started. they wouldnt do anyyyything even when i thought they were dry then i let them sit for another 3 or 4 days and they magically worked lol

 

[uba egar320]

I hope you do. Did you try the search yet? Maybe they are holding onto some water down where you can't see it, Idk.

 

[want to quit]

I shake them like a monkey that sees bananas and after like 10 shakes some water did come out of the carto. I just let them stay for another day and see again. Glad I ordered some new once that arrive today thanks to cigeasy. Thanks for the input everyone they looked dry super dry but thanks to you guys I noticed there is still water in them.

 

[uba egar320]

Good deal. Glad to hear they aren't ruined.

 

[ancient puffer]

I shake them like a monkey that sees bananas and after like 10 shakes some water did come out of the carto. I just let them stay for another day and see again. Glad I ordered some new once that arrive today thanks to cigeasy. Thanks for the input everyone they looked dry super dry but thanks to you guys I noticed there is still water in them.

Um, just wondering, after you cleaned them and dried them, did you refill with ejuice? Only asking because you said you shook some water out of them...

 

[want to quit]

I cleaned 20 of them at once (smart person that I am as a newby) this morning they looked super dry so i filled up a couple of those and they would not work. 2 produce like a lil vapor lets say 2% of the normal vapor production. 3 of them dont do anything. After some here said there may be still water in them I took a couple of the other once I cleaned and noticed that after shaking them like crazy that there was indeed still water left in them.

 

[mohawkx]

First off, Want to quit, if you run them under the kitchen sprinkler hose, very easy water pressure at the hottest temp your faucet puts out you can see the water and residual juice running out the hole in the battery end. I usually run them for about ten minutes and I keep them elevated so the water can run freely out the hole in the batt end. Then I give them a good shake and suck on the battery end to see if I taste any of the old juice flavor. If I do, most likely the menthols, I continue the process. Then I let the cartos drain with the lip side down on a towel for about a half hour. Then I put them battery side down on a piece of tinfoil on a cookie sheet in the oven and bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour. I turn the oven off after an hour, leave the cartos in there to cool and go to bed. Next morning I fill the ones I want with juice and have no problems. some of the cartos are on their second washing.
Here is a few things I've noticed. With a carto that has been washed there is some compression of the filler. What this means is that the carto will take less juice than a fresh, new carto. The juice will take longer to reach the bottom where the coil is as the filler is compressed. It's best to fill a washed carto and let it set for a couple hours and top it off again so it fills completely and when you add the juice the filler will re-expand back to it's origional volume. Some have filled washed cartos till the drips come out the bottom and then talk about a burned taste. this is because of the compressed filler and the additional time for the juice to settle and the filler to re-expand.

Hope this helps.

 

[Sherri76]

I just want to add, that Taryn Spin really works to get water out of a carto. In another thread I was wondering the best way to get my carto's to dry faster because I'm way too lazy to put them in the oven and a few people mentioned the Taryn Spin. I repeatedly rinsed a carto to get a particularly bad tasting juice out of it, blew it out as hard as I could, then tried the Taryn Spin on it. I had a condom cap on one end to catch the water and I was amazed that it filled up almost halfway with water even after all the furious blowing and shaking I'd done beforehand. Below is the video that jbmcdan suggested I watch to get started. I waited about 7 hours or so and that was apparently enough time. The carto worked fine, and I got plenty of vapor after filling with juice.

here ya go, Sherri -- all you need's the cardboard tube from laundry/dry cleaners
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...you-need-know-how-make-lanyard-new-video.html

 

[want to quit]

First off, Want to quit, if you run them under the kitchen sprinkler hose, very easy water pressure at the hottest temp your faucet puts out you can see the water and residual juice running out the hole in the battery end. I usually run them for about ten minutes and I keep them elevated so the water can run freely out the hole in the batt end. Then I give them a good shake and suck on the battery end to see if I taste any of the old juice flavor. If I do, most likely the menthols, I continue the process. Then I let the cartos drain with the lip side down on a towel for about a half hour. Then I put them battery side down on a piece of tinfoil on a cookie sheet in the oven and bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour. I turn the oven off after an hour, leave the cartos in there to cool and go to bed. Next morning I fill the ones I want with juice and have no problems. some of the cartos are on their second washing.
Here is a few things I've noticed. With a carto that has been washed there is some compression of the filler. What this means is that the carto will take less juice than a fresh, new carto. The juice will take longer to reach the bottom where the coil is as the filler is compressed. It's best to fill a washed carto and let it set for a couple hours and top it off again so it fills completely and when you add the juice the filler will re-expand back to it's origional volume. Some have filled washed cartos till the drips come out the bottom and then talk about a burned taste. this is because of the compressed filler and the additional time for the juice to settle and the filler to re-expand.

Hope this helps.

the man of the hour once again. You are like superman always there to help. I will give the oven a go even though it sounds crazy haha. Just to confirm you are serious about 300 degrees for 1hr? Thanks for the advice and ya the watermelon frost aka menthol just needs a couple more washes to get out of the carto.

 

[kilascay]

I am in the same situation as you .. I took apart one of my Togo cartos I noticed it has a thick cloth wrapped around the center tube this is most likely what is still wet. I'm baking mine now 300 for one hour ill let you know how it goes.

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[kilascay]

Well baking them did the trick good as new

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