How much juice should I be using when refilling these?

[projo198]

Please forgive my ignorance, just starting out.

I am using the Mistic e-cigarettes and plan on refilling them.

A nurse friend got me some 18 gauge syringes yesterday, I plan on using these to refill.

With these cartridges, does anyone know how much I should be using? Or as a general rule-of-thumb do you just add juice until you feel the material is suitable saturated? I'm worried about adding too much and it leaking.

Again sorry if this seems like a dumb question, just want to have my ducks in a row before I start.

 

[jonny2hottie]

first off are they cartomizers or cartridges?? cartridges are usually .5ml's or less but really depends. with a cartridge you dont even need a syringe, just put enough drops until the polyfill material looks soaked.

 

[Retriever]

These Mistics look like a KR808 slim device. Not sure about that though. Normally the cartos hold around 0.8-1.0ml of eliquid.

Welcome to you, and there is no dumb question! Hope that helps.

 

[dormouse]

Most common cartomizers about 1.25 to 1.5 inches long usually hold about 1ml. I don't use a syringe - I remove the carto from the battery, remove the end cap (or in my case just pull out the plastic or delrin drip tip I use as a mouthpiece) and I drip juice into the stuffing (while blocking the threaded end hole), clean it up to make sure it isn't going to leak. And I do not "refill" because I never let a carto get anywhere near empty. If you run a carto too dry it will singe and add a bitter burnt taste. I keep my cartos damp.

A brand new empty carto of that size holds abut 1ml or somewhere between 20 and 28 drops depending on the bottle and the quality control of the carto maker (bad carto makes may have inconsistent stuffing length).

There is some big thread about Mystic in the New Members section - use Search Forum in New Members and search for Mystic. I don't know what model it is and not everything that looks like a KR8 is a KR8

 

[projo198]

Thanks guys!

These are cartridges I believe, don't really understand the difference yet. These have female ends and you pop the cap off the back along with a small clear o-ring to get to the fiber inside.

That's a good start. I think I'll start at around half a mL and see how it goes.

 

[dormouse]

Battery + atomizer + cartridge (just add juice until it looks damp but not a puddle)

Battery + cartomizer (cartomizer is a disposable enclosed screw-on cartridge and atomizer coil in one piece)

 

[subliminalurge]

Nope, not cartridges, they're cartos.

I'd guess they hold around a ml. I don't bother with a syringe, but when they're low they'll easily take 15 to 20 drops. More if you "spin" the carto to get the juice down to the bottom faster (I just use a binder clip on a piece of string to do this).

And definitely don't let them dry out. Once you scorch the wick, there's no way to get rid of the burnt flavor.

 

[projo198]

Good heads up guys, I think I may have already "burnt" my first one.

Thanks!