Help! Carto Threads Broke and are Stuck in my Battery Threads

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A Boge 510 carto just broke off from my eGo 1000 battery, and the carto threads are still in the battery threads. I don't want to mess up the battery threads and have no idea how I'm gonna get the carto threads out. The end of the carto broke exactly where the threads start at the end of the carto.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Katya]

Got pliers?

 

[dalelovelace]

Jam a pencil sharpened end into it hard enough to wedge and twist them out. Break some of the end of the pencil off if it won't reach in far enough.

 

[deback]

Got pliers?

The stuck threads are inside the threaded end of the battery. Pliers won't work. Thanks.

 

[DesertDweller]

Insert needlenose pliers. Jam open and try to turn.

 

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Jam a pencil sharpened end into it hard enough to wedge and twist them out. Break some of the end of the pencil off if it won't reach in far enough.

Thanks, so far, there's not enough room to get anything in between the battery threads and the carto threads. I know I need to figure out how to crack or break the carto threads, then it'll be a cinch to take them out. I'm just afraid I'm gonna screw up the battery threads.

 

[Katya]

Insert needlenose pliers. Jam open and try to turn.

Yup. That's what I meant. Should work, no?

 

[HzG8rGrl]

Someone else had a problem similar and they said they used the eraser end of a pencil along with toothpicks to make a tight fit. It could have been tweezers, but I think toothpicks. Filled the hole till jammed full and twisted--it turn those threads right out. Worth a try!

 

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Insert needlenose pliers. Jam open and try to turn.

Sounded like a brilliant idea. Ran out to the garage, got 3 needle-nosed pliers, and nope, it's too smooth inside there to turn the tight threads, nothing for the pliers to grab onto. Tried putting a part of a latex glove inside first, then the pliers, and nope.

 

[deback]

Someone else had a problem similar and they said they used the eraser end of a pencil along with toothpicks to make a tight fit. It could have been tweezers, but I think toothpicks. Filled the hole till jammed full and twisted--it turn those threads right out. Worth a try!

Another brilliant idea, thanks! Looking around for a pencil... will go find one, but that was similar to my first thought. I tried a rubber thing that I had removed from some pens yesterday, and that didn't work. I'll try to fill up the hole better and keep trying.

 

[VeeDubb65]

Can you post a pic? I tend to be pretty hand with that sort of thing, but I'm having a hard time visualizing where and how it broke, and I've never used a boge carto

 

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I'm getting it! Using tweezers and the latex glove...turning to the left, it's slow, but it's coming! Thanks very much to everyone!

 

[HzG8rGrl]

I went back and found the thread. It was a mechanical pencil and q-tip!?
Hope you get it out.

 

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It's out! Thank you so much! The needle-nosed pliers idea helped immensely, especially when I tried it with the tweezers and the latex glove I have on my desk for those times when an adapter is too tight to turn.

 

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I went back and found the thread. It was a mechanical pencil and q-tip!?
Hope you get it out.

Yea, thanks so much! For a while, I was using a q-tip and alcohol, hoping to loosen it up and then added the latex glove, and then the tweezers. At first, I didn't realize the broken threads were turning, but then I saw they had moved from the bottom of the battery's threads to the top of the battery's threads. I was like, YEAH!

 

[deback]

Can you post a pic? I tend to be pretty hand with that sort of thing, but I'm having a hard time visualizing where and how it broke, and I've never used a boge carto

Without posting a pic, because I ain't gonna put those broken carto threads back into the battery threads (lol), but visualize a Boge carto with 510 threads screwed into any 510 battery. Then the carto breaks off in your hand at exactly the spot where the threads at the end of the carto start. That is, the very end of the carto's threads are still screwed all the way into the battery...at the very bottom of the battery's threads.

I just put on another carto, and it vapes fine!

Thanks again, everyone!

 

[NurseCin]

It's out! Thank you so much! The needle-nosed pliers idea helped immensely, especially when I tried it with the tweezers and the latex glove I have on my desk for those times when an adapter is too tight to turn.

*runs in yelling* Here I come to save the dayyyyyyyyyyy! ...........
Awww shucks! *walks back out*

 

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Now, how do I fix this cartomizer? Super glue the threads back on?

 

[tranced]

So when the super glue breaks you'll do a repeat? Heck no, toss that carto!

 

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Well, is there a better glue than super glue? A kind that won't break?