If you're going to mod or mess with your e-cig...

[Belhade]

...think about what you're doing. Consider the implications. Get as much info as you can.

BE CAREFUL!

One of the things I'd read here was replacing cart filler with such things as teabags, coffee filters, blue foam, etc. Well, being a coffee drinker myself, I've got plenty of coffee filters and figured that would be a cheap, quick and easy way to try something out.

Ever get into something and maybe you think you're missing some small, obvious but somewhat irrelevant detail? And then not bother to think about what that may be? Like, whether or not your coffee filters are bleached or unbleached paper?

All day my Marlboro-filled 510 has tasted like burning notebook paper. Hopefully I didn't just commit a very carelessly elaborate suicide by vaping bleach.

Maybe now my wife will understand why I keep telling her that I'm an idiot.

 

[RedRamen]

...think about what you're doing. Consider the implications. Get as much info as you can.

BE CAREFUL!

One of the things I'd read here was replacing cart filler with such things as teabags, coffee filters, blue foam, etc. Well, being a coffee drinker myself, I've got plenty of coffee filters and figured that would be a cheap, quick and easy way to try something out.

Ever get into something and maybe you think you're missing some small, obvious but somewhat irrelevant detail? And then not bother to think about what that may be? Like, whether or not your coffee filters are bleached or unbleached paper?

All day my Marlboro-filled 510 has tasted like burning notebook paper. Hopefully I didn't just commit a very carelessly elaborate suicide by vaping bleach.

Maybe now my wife will understand why I keep telling her that I'm an idiot.

That's a very good concern... The only two mods I've used are blue foam, and the lipton pyramid tea bag... I think those two are fine, but what do I know haha.

 

[Remie]

That must have tasted horrid! I doubt you were inhaling enough bleach to cause harm... disgust and repulsion? Oh, yuck but, yeah - good thing you realized. I wouldn't want to knowingly inhale whatever bleached filter paper would emit. Just the fact that it created the awful taste is reason enough alone to stop using it as cart filler.

Were you able to quickly clear the nasty taste from your atty once you realized?

 

[techtony]

That and I don't think you're supposed to use paper, the tea bags are nylon.

 

[VictoryNotVengence]

if you use the wrong filler you'll get bad results. theres post here that show that coffee filters arn't good. aquaclear foam size 30 with a straw IS good. Get some of that and mod your carts rite

 

[Gilliz]

Chest pain? Numbness in the left side of you're face? No? Nah, listen, you'll be fine.Look, i've smoked some bad stuff experimenting when i was a super young'n, and I'm still kicking. It's pretty well documented on ECF whats good as fillers and whats not.

 

[voltaire]

Well, you drink all your coffee that has been filtered through those very same filters, don't you? I'm not saying you should use coffee filters (mainly because they probably don't work too well) but I wouldn't be too worried about it either. Bad taste is probably the only negative result, in which case you might consider a different kind for your coffee too!

 

[Vapinginjapan]

If you can drink it, the amount in your filter will probably do you no harm

better than hydrogen cyanide in cigarette smoke, I imagine

 

[tunabubblegum]

Maybe now my wife will understand why I keep telling her that I'm an idiot.

And if she doesnt, we certainly do

 

[doots]

or everyone can drip and not use them at all.. lol

 

[catlvr]

Yup doots that's exactly why I drip only anymore. Much less hassle.

 

[tunabubblegum]

Yep, I drip alot too.
The PV's I use most are higher current than 3V, so I drip!!

Lots of the juice still gets sucked up into the carts blue foam
though, and I tend to go a little over because I hate having to
do it every 4 or 5 puffs.

 

[Belhade]

Well I'm glad to tell you all that I did not succumb to bleach poisoning overnight!
And after switching filler around, I've found that the dummy flat-tip that came on the atty that I'd put the coffee filter in now appears to be permanently fouled, even after putting in cleaned poly and fresh juice. I also washed out the atty and dried it overnight so I'm back to the basics and everything is fine.

 

[AlexTM]

Bleached filter just means, there was once bleach near it, and that may just have been oxygen. You know, stuff you better get a lot of every day
If there was still bleach in the filter, you'd drink it with every cup of coffee, and I doubt that.

 

[Belhade]

Well I'm just bypassing the hassle of vaping altogether by (inadvertently) coating my laptop keyboard and touchpad with e-juice...