GreenCig Cartos - Black with Gold Writing

[Sense Field]

Ok...ever wish you just kept your mouth shut? People tend to blow things out of proportion and go a little manic when faced with even the smallest little changes. Hopefully this puts out the fire:

In a different thread...I spoke about the black GreenCig cartos with the gold writing.

I got one pack of these...they were western tobacco produced in January of this year.

They are the same design as the ones with the white writing but I noticed I couldn't get my 22 gauge syringe down the battery end without putting a lot of force into it.

So I took one apart and noticed that the atomizer wire was pulled tight over the little hole in the atomizer housing (the white plastic piece that the atomizer and wick are connected to). Normally it's looser and over to one side. There was no way I was going to get my syringe in there without pushing a bit (not all) of the atomizer wire off of the wick.

I also found it easier to take this cartomizer apart because the atomizer housing wasn't glued down...it was being held by the atomizer wire...also...the area that holds the juice was not glued in like it normally is.

The cap was a bit harder to take off because it was glued on very well. It use to have a sort of putty glue on it...on these, it's just regular glue.

So the difference? A little glue here...a little less glue there...a slightly different position (maybe one centimeters) as to where the atomizer wire was sitting and a taught atomizer wire.

This all came about because I was trying to help someone with syringe filling in another thread...the person was having a hard time getting past the atomizer wires.

In my opinion...getting past those wires is always a difficult task because these were not meant to have needles shoved in them.

The solution? I am looking into smaller needles for my syringe.

I've ordered 8 packs of GreenCig Cartos in the past two months...only one pack had gold writing.

 

[lorikay13]

Thank you! This is actually very usefull information. Did you get these cartos from Nhaler or LeCig ?

Big sellers can and do make special requests about these little details. The more they order at one time the bigger the list of "perks" is....custom colors,flavor tweaks,different glues etc. It's important to know who is selling what. At the very least we can know what questions to ask!! And this is public information,btw...all you have to do is go to Alibaba and the big e-cig companies list right out front what the perks are and what it will cost you to get them.

If you (or anyone...this isn't meant to be personal)can afford to use these things as if they are disposable then that's great. But most of us can not....so it really is important for people to know ahead of time what they are getting. What may be the slightest little change to one person may be a real hardship to someone else who is trying to survive on SSI or Disability payments and just found out they blew their whole monthly e-cig budget on something they can't use.

Thank you Sense Field for pointing this out to us and taking the time to make a new thread.

 

[Sense Field]

Thank you! This is actually very usefull information. Did you get these cartos from Nhaler or LeCig ?

Big sellers can and do make special requests about these little details. The more they order at one time the bigger the list of "perks" is....custom colors,flavor tweaks,different glues etc. It's important to know who is selling what. At the very least we can know what questions to ask!! And this is public information,btw...all you have to do is go to Alibaba and the big e-cig companies list right out front what the perks are and what it will cost you to get them.

If you (or anyone...this isn't meant to be personal)can afford to use these things as if they are disposable then that's great. But most of us can not....so it really is important for people to know ahead of time what they are getting. What may be the slightest little change to one person may be a real hardship to someone else who is trying to survive on SSI or Disability payments and just found out they blew their whole monthly e-cig budget on something they can't use.

Thank you Sense Field for pointing this out to us and taking the time to make a new thread.

I got them from Nhaler...it was on pack of 5 Western Tobacco. The only thing I have ever ordered from LeCig was the 99 cent syringe I'm using for refilling, ironically.

I do use these mostly as disposable...I paid $5.50 - $6.50 for a pack of cigs...so $3 for a days worth of vaping isn't a problem to me. But no offense taken. Though, I do wonder how people got along as smokers before they vaped. A pack of Cigs is twice the price of a GreenCig Carto.

I still do refill now and again though...and every GreenCig carto I have come across has been refillable.

 

[cos]

Sense Field yeh very helpfull. we are not blowing things out of proportion. these things are good to know. i have been using greencigs since the start from Sept 09. used to have the old cartos with paper backing. those were fantastic and big ... vapor produces. still have some. then i started buying a few from Drew the newer ones. these were changed as these said greencigs stamped on them while the older ones were stamped greentech. the insides were about the same except lot of these werent glud down. on the ones i bought anyway lol.
so these are the last pks of greencig i bought. i reuse mine over and over and over as they are very hard to kill. so i havent bought any cause i still have about 25 left and they are getting constantly refilled. and i use the filling thru the battettery end using a sryinge. NOW this is why i asked and i guess why Lorikay asked that question. i had no clue. so i am glad you said something. again thanks for saying that. there was this girl named Lori (needvapor) she in the past helped many people including myself. so she has taken off for awhile taking care of personal business. so in her departure i started helping others. the a few others like yourself came in and started offering their help which is great. i didnt have the time. i told many people do not take them apart, not for the newbies anyway. i said this cause when you first starte vaping and you buy greencig cartos and you take themn apart to fill them they never lined up right again and so they always leaked or didnt work right. so i said leave them the way you got them and fill thru the battery end either 1 drop at a time or with a sryinge. i myself screwed up a few carts in the beginning then i got kinda good at them.
anyway thats enough about that. so now they have a newer design and thanks to you we know that. what i fill my GC cartos with now is the 22G 1 1/2 needle and yeh it hits that wick but after you do it a few times with practive you can get it thru on an angle. so now your saying that needle is too big? or dont work? dam hope there is a smaller one that is not as small as the last one i used. the liquid wouldnt go thru as it was too thick.
so great heads up man. you are the new greencig man. im glad a si dont come on much anymore and someone has to help the new people. so very cool. How are these new cartos as far as vapor same? and i assume you got this new gold writing pk from Nhaler and if not can you please pm me with who. thanks for that and i appreciate it. Man you sure buy lot of cartos holy moly. you must be vaping them 5 at a time lolol. i thought i was heavy vapor. but i do get 23 drops using the syringe inside that gc carto. if i try to get more and i could then it starts leaking so i stop at 23. actually i put in 20 drops with syring then i add 3 drops 1 at a time thru the battery end without the syringe.you know what i mean the way it sucks it right in. dam love that ..... and greencigs do rock. But there is a new sherrif in town and he is the 510 cartomizer. oh man its very close..... very close. anyway nice meeting you Sense Field and please keep telling us things pertaining to greencigs when you find time. My pleasure talking to you.
hello Lorikay dont want you to think im ignoring you lol.
Happy vaping
Cos aka Billy G

 

[cos]

SenseField i seen your post that you bought them from Nhaler so please ignore my request for pming me. Thanks again man.
Cos

 

[Sense Field]

But there is a new sherrif in town and he is the 510 cartomizer. oh man its very close..... very close.

I got some 510 cartomizers also...really nice...I like the easier draw from the 510 battery. If only the cartos fit in my PCC!!!

 

[miss MiA]

I wonder if Drew ever vapes GCs. On the other thread he said he was going to look into this and I don't know in what way he'll be doing that, but it would be interesting if he could open a couple packs of each flavor in the new inventory to spot check whether it seems that most or a good number of them are the gold lettering kind. Would just be nice to know and be prepared, e.g. pursue smaller needles. I probably would want to test if I could get the hang of syringe filling with the G.L. (gold lettered) ones too. (Occasional updates from Sense Field on success rate with that would be grrreat as well, if possible! Hi Sense Field! ) But since the packs are wrapped in cellophane, Drew would probably want to be sure he had a use for them after opening... I can think of one hehe... yum!! jk

Myself, I can vape a pack a day of any carto (8-o), so even with cigs being around $10/pack in Chi Town (= I didn't usually buy them locally... 20 min drive to Indy! )... but yes, that is just the way it is I know, and also there are other motivators besides potential savings to spend that money on vape supplies rather than cigs! Still, it's not down to either/or here, so I will and must still seek to economize within reason.

Edit to add: It's also still a sticking point that I'd put a LOT of dough into stockpiling regular blank cartos before I found out about the advantages of the GC kind. So it's come as a 'surprise' to me that I'm buying a diff kind at all now. Again tho, just the way it is. And haven't given up other kinds or anything, just starting to toy with the idea of incorporating these on a broader basis.

 

[cos]

Miss MIA how many cartos do you go thru a day? are you a heavy vapor or lite or medium. i can go thru 3 to 4 a day of the GC cartos. but lately i have been using the new 510 carto and also using some of the new Low Res attys so not using much of the gcig. but i still do use it just not near as much. but thats only temporary until i make up my mind with what im gonna do with LR attys and 510 cartos. i do love cartos though and all you do is fill it and then vape the darn thing. no making sure atty wick is wet and dripping. so much easier. thats 1 reason while i do like the TH and vapor of the Low Res attys i prefer using a carto much more. and the 510 carto produces enough vapor and TH for me so i am a happy camper.

 

[miss MiA]

Hi cos, I can EASILY vape 4-5 cartos a day 'unfortunately,' whether GCs or standard KR8. (Any lowered resistance kinds would of course go even faster.) I really do like the flavor of GCs, which I know some who try them aren't satisfied with; but since I was already well-stocked on regulars the only reason I ended up trying and buying a quantity of GCs too was because I hadn't known about the potential 'issues' with the regulars. Issues GCs seem not to have. However, I have seen through experimentation that in the case of my own vaping style along with other factors (e.g. juices used, adapters in use, early perception of poop out, etc.), I'm apparently not having much of an 'issue with those issues' lol. Eventually I'll try the higher resistance cartos too, and if they seem to achieve production consistency, will get them in quantity if I can (cuz I'd be talking hundreds, that's how I like to do things. Probably sell my regulars in the classifieds first.)

So, I love GCs and could probably even switch to them alone, but not if for me they end up behaving like single-use (with the white-lettered I've been doing ok with syringe refilling), and if there are other good and more economical options available.

Trade-offs and compromises seem very hard for most ppl to make in the face of any product that pumps up the vapor and flavor, so I guess I'm lucky because I can easily 'compromise' in many ways as long as what I'm getting is a satisfactory enough experience to stand in for cigs. And I've had absolutely no problem finding that level of satisfaction! For others I gather it's much harder to stay off real cigs... either that or they just find any increased vapor and yumminess in itself far too hard to refuse!

 

[Sense Field]

Ok...here you go..a few pics. As you can see...the GreenCig Cartomizers with the gold writing much more atomizer wire wrapped around the wick.

You can also see that they have a smaller hole on the back side of the atomizer housing.

So with a big needle, you are much more likely to hit atomizer wire.
Small hole + tons more atomizer wire = need a new, smaller syringe needle.

Again...the white lettering cartomizers were labeled as being produced 11/09...the Gold lettering cartomizers were labeled as being produced 1/10

Both were bought within the past two months.

3 unused cartomizers died to bring you these photos.

On a side note...as a whole...the ones with the Gold Lettering are easier to take apart.

 

[miss MiA]

Wow thanks for doing that SF!! But tho I tried viewing the page with a few diff browsers, I can't see the pics or any placeholders either. That does happen for me sometimes on forums including this one, where in a fresh-ish post someone is referring to a pic being there that I can't see, nor any trace, extra blank space, etc. (Not a computer infestation or anything like that I'm sure, and I'm down with routine maintenance, clearing temps, updating, etc.) Can everyone else see 'em??

Just FYI y'all, I got some Western Tobacco from Drew in my initial test round in late March or early April, and they were white-lettered as were the rest. Then that flavor was sold out when I decided soon afterward to get more of all of them (are back in stock now).

 

[Katya]

Ok...here you go..a few pics. As you can see...the GreenCig Cartomizers with the gold writing much more atomizer wire wrapped around the wick.

You can also see that they have a smaller hole on the back side of the atomizer housing.

So with a big needle, you are much more likely to hit atomizer wire.
Small hole + tons more atomizer wire = need a new, smaller syringe needle.

Again...the white lettering cartomizers were labeled as being produced 11/09...the Gold lettering cartomizers were labeled as being produced 1/10

Both were bought within the past two months.

3 unused cartomizers died to bring you these photos.

On a side note...as a whole...the ones with the Gold Lettering are easier to take apart.

I want pictures!!! Are you sure you posted them?

 

[Sense Field]

I want pictures!!! Are you sure you posted a link?

I can see the photos...hmmm...they are in my profile.

I'll have to see what's going on.

 

[Sense Field]

They Should be visible. I have no idea why people can't see them...can anyone see them?

 

[miss MiA]

...still can't! Would be interesting to know why (and then I could mention it to others when I run into it again). But for now... what method did you use; attachments or embedding/linking? Could it be the file type..?

 

[Sense Field]

...still can't! Would be interesting to know why (and then I could mention it to others when I run into it again). But for now... what method did you use; attachments or embedding/linking? Could it be the file type..?

Linking...they are linked to photos uploaded in my profile.

 

[Sense Field]

I tried attachments...can anyone see them now??

 

[miss MiA]

YUP YUP, thank you!!!! Gonna go stare at em now!

Edit to add: ahhh, very interesting!

 

[Sense Field]

YUP YUP, thank you!!!! Gonna go stare at em now!

Edit to add: ahhh, very interesting!

I wish you could see them better.

The ones in my profile photo album are bigger I think.
basically...the atomizer wire is wrapped around the wick about 5 times on the white letter ones.

The gold Letter ones...you can't count how many times it's wrapped around...it's way more then 5 though.

Also...more wick on the gold letter ones...don't know if you can see that.

 

[miss MiA]

Yes, I can see those details, when I click on and enlarge them they're pretty visible even on my current 12" screen. It's very helpful to be aware of these things in advance, glad you noticed it (and made the carto sacrifice!)