Embarrassed by kiddie color cool carts

[Taurox]

Has anyone found a reliable way to color or write on cartomizers?

I love the gold, copper, silver, black, white, and dark blue. The pastel pink and blue, and the bright red and green. I suppose the pastel pink and blue aren't horrible, however I fail to see how cool or classy the red and green are. It makes my cig look like a toy or candy, which is not exactly the image I am going for. I show them to friends, the men and women love the great car colors - gold, silver, black, white, dark blue. Responses are, how classy, sophisticated, blah blah. Then the others... laughter and derogatory comments.

I know, I could just not use the other colors. I am a little .... retentive and like matching my colors with my flavors. I am weird, I already know this. Just wondering if anyone has found a way to maybe darken or possibly a sticker they found online to replace the one on the cartomizer. I would just buy some flavor I hate with nice darker colors, but I think I am addicted to the cool carts and as far as I know they don't use them for prefilled.

Just curious and fishing for info, not a flame.

T

 

[thelook]

I use tape on mine, a Metallic tape that I found at the hobby store, I ended up getting a pack that had 5 colors in it and paid about $7.00 but have enough to last for ever.

Kinda like this
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[JustMeAgain]

I use tape on mine, a Metallic tape that I found at the hobby store, I ended up getting a pack that had 5 colors in it and paid about $7.00 but have enough to last for ever.

Kinda like this
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What a great idea! I'm not overly fond of the bright colors, either, but I think that would look very classy.

Do you have any adhesion problem when juice gets on it?

I'll have to hit Hobby Lobby asap.

 

[WOW]

That's a very cool link!

I've been using tiny rubberbands on the bottles. Wouldn't look at all elegant on cartos but, might work on the cartos (not sure they can wind twice-I've not tried either myself since I just throw out old cartos-In a pinch though, I think they carry multi-colors rubberbands at dollar stores - not the same but if it's urgent....just sayin' - Markers definitely don't work)

I use tape on mine, a Metallic tape that I found at the hobby store, I ended up getting a pack that had 5 colors in it and paid about $7.00 but have enough to last for ever.

Kinda like this
Pro-Sheen

 

[NewLou]

I would just buy some flavor I hate with nice darker colors, but I think I am addicted to the cool carts and as far as I know they don't use them for prefilled.
T

Actually, Taurox, they do use cool carts for some of the premium flavors. It usually says "coolcart" in the title, right after the flavor. Unfortunately, they don't have pictures of the cartos, so you don't know what color carto you are going to get just by looking at the website.

 

[Gravity]

I recently got a Cognac and a Raspberry carto as free samples. I really like the deep red/burgundy color... I wish more options like these were available as blanks. Spread the available color pallete a little wider on the blanks, and they won't sell out as quickly!

 

[bones25]

peel the labels off and clean outside sticky stuff off with goo gone


PRESTO....stainless steel color carto : )

 

[Taurox]

Thanks for all the great ideas. Unfortunately my hobby shop didn't have much of anything but colored duct tape.

T

 

[tweazee]

To WOW:

I think MistressNomad uses the 1/8 colored rubberband for braces on her carts (at least I think it was her video I saw them in).
Been watching too many of them in the last week.

Sorry if I am quoting the wrong video.


p.s.
the video said rubberbands could be ordered from jawproducts, but they are out of colors.
Someone else replied that they got theirs from shurba.

 

[Darrigaaz]

I use little labels I find at Walmart. They seem to stay on just fine.

 

[WOW]

Cool. I was looking at the ones for baby pony tails. I would have never thought of ones for braces! They'd definitely stretch enough to go around twice. :-})

To WOW:

I think MistressNomad uses the 1/8 colored rubberband for braces on her carts (at least I think it was her video I saw them in).
Been watching too many of them in the last week.

Sorry if I am quoting the wrong video.


p.s.
the video said rubberbands could be ordered from jawproducts, but they are out of colors.
Someone else replied that they got theirs from shurba.

 

[MachoKing]

I'm a fan of both peppermint and pink lemonade so I sport a pink carto a little more often than I'd like but I really enjoy the flavors so I just deal with the occasional pun directed toward my pink carto.

 

[Vchick]

2 ideas - the dollar store has mini colored rubber band in super sized bags, maybe a couple hundred, for a buck. Also the metallic sharpie fine point markers work amazingly well.........

 

[lonercom]

.... I am weird, I already know this. ...

________________________10 foot pole__________________________________!

I have used Avery 32404 Postal stamps. They are the perfect size 1 5/16 x 1 5/16. They are paperish but I wrap them on some shipping tape to keep them watertight. It's a bit of a PITA but it will accomplish the task. Anymore, I just fill a blank and when I change flavors I stick that blank to the bottle with a rubber band.

Of course, I have amassed quite a collection of blanks and am starting to throw them out instead of washing them out. If Steve is driving a new Mercedes, I probably paid for it.

 

[Taurox]

wow lonercom that really is a perfect size. I am assuming that any computer program that would recognize those avery stamps will probably not let you design images on them, only postage. However I could probably just tell a paint program to paint a wide band of color on that area of the page. That would be perfect. Heck a little fiddling I could make a Excel template lining everything up. Also allowing me to type in the name of the flavors on the bottom in white or black. OK now I am starting to think out loud.. er type out loud.. well one of those.

Thanks SOOOO much this is perfect for me.

T

 

[salliezoo]

Taurox, In your first post you asked about writing on cartos... I use a gold or silver metallic fine point pen. Works great. Hobby shops have them, probably walmart too. Or I use my Brother label maker machine. Buy label tape (available at the Brother website) that is "clear" with the print type in white or black...and/or black tape with the print type in gold. Use size 1/4" or 1/2" tape width and wrap around the base of the carto (be careful not to cover the air holes). I use the black tape w/gold for my black cartos and the clear for the others. White print for dark cartos, black print for light cartos. So you can use lonercoms postal stamps to cover the nasty colors (or just strip down to bare steel)...and use the labeling machine to mark them. I think its easier than trying to figure out a computer program. (But thats only because I'm not too computer savvy). You can get a cheap Brother label maker at Costco or online for about $20. Just another option.