Help with filling a 510 cartomizer

[pcijohn]

I want to try a carto for the times i can't fill and bought these Empty Joye 510 Cartomizers for 510 or eGo I took off the 2 caps at the mouth piece expecting to see a center hole to fill from and I see a center tube/hole that seems to be sealed shut with molded plastic but next to it a half circle is wide open I have never done this and expected at least batting visible what am I missing I did buy a blunt hypo

 

[horton]

You need to pierce the "membrane" in the center tube that you mentioned. Membrane is used pretty loosely in my mind because it takes a good bit of force to get through it. I've had the best luck using a large safety pin heated a little to help melt through the plastic. Makes a nice hole that is large enough to take that 18 ga blunt needle. Then you attach the blunt 18 ga to a 3 - 5 ml syringe and add your juice through that hole you just made. I find at best I can get 1.75 - 1.9 ml into a new one. It's a good idea to go very slowly to let the juice soak in well. You could also spin the carto (Taryn spin??? not sure of the name) to help push the juice into the filling. If you push the juice too fast, it will just come out the end hole or come up through the half circle you saw. You certainly can't push the fluid quickly like you would on an IV port. Have to go slow.... maybe if the juice is of low viscosity, you could go a little faster..... all my juice is pretty thick, so I can't say for sure. But that is the general "drift" of how to fill it.
I really like the vapor you get from it. Once in a while right after filling I'll hear a little gurgling. Probably too much juice.
When it comes to refilling, I've never quite figured out how to know exactly when to do so. I don't want to run it so dry that I might burn the filling and trash it, so I generally will add say .5 - .75 ml after a couple of hours of use. I'm probably being way to conservative, but I'd rather keep it wet in there than run it dry and ruin it. Hope this helped a little........

 

[pcijohn]

Thank You that is what I thought but after watching videos on how to fill it didn't seem it was that hard to pierce the center hole and I didn't want to break anything

Question so these are Joye cartos for the 510 not the megas initial fill 1ml??? how do you know how much to top off without overfilling?
Thanks

 

[horton]

I'm not meaning to beg off, but I'm very new to cartos..... hopefully someone with greater knowledge of them can answer that one. I have yet to figure out how how much to put in and not overfill.
I want to say they are not the megas, but please don't hold me to that. I did a search using "Boge cartomizers" as the subject and found several threads that pertained to the 510 cartos and others as well, so you may luck out by doing that. Just a thought.

 

[orville99]

This may be a really dumb**s question, but if you buy the prefilled cartos, is the membrane already pierced? So you can just use the syringe w/o having to perform surgery?

 

[horton]

Having never bought prefilled cartos, I can not honestly answer that question, but my guess would be that the membrane is intact. Someone on ECF must have bought prefilled ones who could answer that question with greater authority. You might also write and ask that question to a vendor. They certainly should have the definitive answer...... sorry again about being vague with you...... not meaning to do so on purpose....

 

[zippersnapper]

You need to pierce the "membrane" in the center tube that you mentioned. Membrane is used pretty loosely in my mind because it takes a good bit of force to get through it. I've had the best luck using a large safety pin heated a little to help melt through the plastic. Makes a nice hole that is large enough to take that 18 ga blunt needle. Then you attach the blunt 18 ga to a 3 - 5 ml syringe and add your juice through that hole you just made. I find at best I can get 1.75 - 1.9 ml into a new one. It's a good idea to go very slowly to let the juice soak in well. You could also spin the carto (Taryn spin??? not sure of the name) to help push the juice into the filling. If you push the juice too fast, it will just come out the end hole or come up through the half circle you saw. You certainly can't push the fluid quickly like you would on an IV port. Have to go slow.... maybe if the juice is of low viscosity, you could go a little faster..... all my juice is pretty thick, so I can't say for sure. But that is the general "drift" of how to fill it.
I really like the vapor you get from it. Once in a while right after filling I'll hear a little gurgling. Probably too much juice.
When it comes to refilling, I've never quite figured out how to know exactly when to do so. I don't want to run it so dry that I might burn the filling and trash it, so I generally will add say .5 - .75 ml after a couple of hours of use. I'm probably being way to conservative, but I'd rather keep it wet in there than run it dry and ruin it. Hope this helped a little........

This works great (Taryn spin):