How many cartos/clearos do I really need?

[b2darizzle]

I've only been vaping for 8 months and I've only really found 2 juices I honestly love. Over time, however, I've purchased 3 cartotanks, 2 5-packs of cartomizers, 4 standard resistance atomizers, 5 brand-specific clearomizers, 2 eVods, 1 ProTank, 1 T3, 1 Mini Vivi Nova, and probably 10 CE4 clearomizers - and feel like I've wasted a good 95% of it all with bad juice/dry burning.

With the 2 juices I've found that I love (staying right in my eVods) and the 20 something other devices sitting with poo juice in them, what else do I really need to test juice and migrate them to vape-able units?

I'm really on the edge of throwing away that 95% just to stop reminding me how much money I dumped on bad decisions.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Baditude]

First of all, trying many different juices is something the vast majority of us have gone through just like you. There's no way around this in our quest to find juices which appeal to us. It doesn't help to go on someone else's juice recommendation, because taste is subjective. What one person likes you may not, and vice versa. The only way to discover a juice that you will like is to actually try them.

I don't know how you purchase your juices, but if there are any vape shops in your city, many provide a juice bar or testing stations as a way to sample their flavors. If not, many online juice vendors offer sampler packs to test many flavors from smaller, less expensive bottles. Once you find a winner or two, order more in a larger size.

You said that you have atomizers. These devices are perfect to test flavors in so that you don't devote an entire tank to a flavor that you end up not caring for.

Over a year's time, I've accumulated 2 RBA's, a couple of clearotanks, and about 20 cartotanks. I routinely keep at least a dozen cartotanks running simultaneously, each with it's own flavor of juice.

 

[debcartee]

Thanks for asking this question. I too have been wondering how much I really need. After reading may of these posts, I think I might need to dig out my atomizer and buy a few cartos to try liquid. I have putting liquid in a clearomizer and hating it. Then I have to go to all the work of trying to get that bad taste out. I use the desposible clearomizers so it gets a little spendy.

 

[Hitmetwice]

Just cleaned house myself today. Tossed out 10- 20 bottles and a handful of ce4's after removing tips and caps and anything salvagable.

Couldn't bring myself to toss out 3 packs of cartos and 8 new ce4's or the 4 or 5 atomizers that I'll probably never use.

But what I mostly have left is what I like and use. Win.

 

[mare ze dotes]

Just from my experience, never throw away yucky ejuice. specialy if you are new and trying diff flaves. I have tossed several flaves into the back of the cabinet as duds and came back 3 or 5 months later, and it was not so bad. i am vapeing now on a coconut that gagged me, but now I am getting some moneys worth out of it. Still not wonder full but it will do . It is making a good amount of vape.

 

[b2darizzle]

Just from my experience, never throw away yucky ejuice. specialy if you are new and trying diff flaves. I have tossed several flaves into the back of the cabinet as duds and came back 3 or 5 months later, and it was not so bad.

I have yet to actually throw anything away, I'm just running out of dead space to put the junk I'm not using lol.

I've had a couple juices that were trash when I got them, then a few weeks later, after steeping, they sort of come together. Not my favorites by any means, but not terrible.

But who wants to vape juice if it's not their favorite?

 

[Bawn]

i have 6 packs of boge xl cartos. i was using them in carto tanks. ce style tanks came out and well never really went back to my carto tank. now i am dripping a rba and i find myself reaching for the rba instead of my vivi or my protank. god whats next man. stop inventing stuff dammit!

 

[Chimney34]

I'm pretty out of control when it comes to tanks. I probably have about 15-20 carto tanks and about half or more have juice in them at any given time. I've gotten rid of everything else like my clearos & novas a while ago. Aside from cartos I have a dripping atty & 2 RDA's & 2 more on the way. It really just depends on you. I change juice all day every day. I have a couple of favs but nothing that I consider an all day vape.

Save the crappy juice for when you're sick & can't taste anything. Lol! No need to waste good juice when you can't taste it. If you don't want to trash it...the juice anyway, get verified & see if you can sale it or find the PIF - pay it forward juice thread & give it to someone who might be going through a tough time.

 

[b2darizzle]

Over a year's time, I've accumulated 2 RBA's, a couple of clearotanks, and about 20 cartotanks. I routinely keep at least a dozen cartotanks running simultaneously, each with it's own flavor of juice.

This very well may be for the New Members board, but can you please explain what an RBA is? Can I use it on my eGo Twist?

I agree, you have to strike out to find good juice, which I have no problem doing, I just feel like I need a better method before I fill a cartotank/clearo. The standard atomizers I have are useless until cleaned after I test out another juice, which is apparently a lengthy process of heavy cleaning (with pure grain alcohol) followed by a night of drying.

Would this RBA be a better alternative for testing? What about these dripping atomizers people are talking about?

 

[Hitmetwice]

This very well may be for the New Members board, but can you please explain what an RBA is? Can I use it on my eGo Twist?

I agree, you have to strike out to find good juice, which I have no problem doing, I just feel like I need a better method before I fill a cartotank/clearo. The standard atomizers I have are useless until cleaned after I test out another juice, which is apparently a lengthy process of heavy cleaning (with pure grain alcohol) followed by a night of drying.

Would this RBA be a better alternative for testing? What about these dripping atomizers people are talking about?

Hey b2darizzle, I'll try and answer for you....RBA's cover different items including RDA's, a rebuildable dripping atty, which would probably suit you best for testing new juices. Only a few drops of liquid are needed and when done you can vape some plain unflavoured until the last flavour clears OR you can just put a new wick in it if the previous flavour was very strong.
RDA's do not have a tank, although you "could" use the type with a tank attached, just don't fill the tank but drip a few drops on the coil/wick itself.
Threading a clean wick into a coil is pretty easy to do after dryburning the coil a bit to get the old juice burnt off.

You CAN use them on twists however the resistance must be checked beforehand to ensure the coil you made is working and won't fry your battery, plus you don't want to use a coil on the twist with too low a resistance, it can draw more power than the twist is able to provide and may cause a battery disaster. I wouldn't advise going under 1.8ohm but am sure some do, at their own peril.

Cheers!