Okay, this is my first "serious" contribution to ECF... the Half-Tooth Teabag mod... or call it whatever you like, lol. It started with the normal teabag mod, which I found to be nice in that it eliminated Fluval stray fiber burning and sticking, which is great... BUT... it didn't give me any more room for more juice and it wicked only slightly better (IMO) than the Fluval... sooo... I started thinking... and this is what I came up with...
The Half-Tooth Teabag Mod
Advantages: This mod gives you substantially more room for juice, extending the life of your cartridges (about 24 drops of JC with a new teabag), and seems to have, to some degree, somewhat of a "straw mod" effect... it flows pretty nice, and when it's dry, it's pretty much out of juice.
Disadvantages: Cutting too much off can flood your atomizer, theoretically, though it hasn't happened to me yet...
Step 1. This whole thing starts with a standard teabag mod... if you've not seen the teabag mod, start with a Lipton Pyramid teabag (the flavor of tea doesn't matter)... there are other instructions on this forum on this (which were very, very good), so seek them out for more detail... this will be the concise version of the teabag mod, just to get you started. Here's our teabag, ready to use. Just make sure you don't have any hairs (like in the picture, YUCK!!) or they'll wind up in your filler
... you'll see our friend the cat hair here up until the end... and I wasn't reshooting this, lol. Oh well:
Step 2. Roll the teabag up about half-way sort of tight, more of a repeated folding:
Step 3: Then, roll progressively more loosely... when you're done, it should be fairly uniform spacing between concentric layers, and should be about the width of the cartridge:
Step 4: Once rolled up, fold evenly in half:
Step 5: Insert into cartridge FULLY (until it reaches the bottom) and trim as closely to the edge of the cartridge as possible:
Result of Tea-Bag Mod: You're probably already familiar with this part of the mod.. the traditional tea-bag mod, and it looks like this:
Step 6: Now here's where it gets interesting... and differs from the traditional tea-bag mod... starting with the folded (creased) end of the folded tea-bag, make a single cut up into the teabag, cutting about 50% up from the bottom (folded end) of the teabag:
Step 7: Once you're half-cut up the middle of the teabag, pull the uncut end towards you to begin cutting towards the outside... just be sure to use cleaner scissors... you never know how dirty your scissors are until examined under macro photography, lol!!!
The Result: Here's the teabag in the shape of a HALF TOOTH... hence the name:
Step 8: Insert the narrow end of the teabag filler into the cartridge, and push in gently until it won't go any further, and fill with juice in the normal fashion. Once done, it will look, on the outside, just like the teabag mod:
Hope this gives someone some extra vaping pleasure... let me know what you think!!
The Half-Tooth Teabag Mod
Advantages: This mod gives you substantially more room for juice, extending the life of your cartridges (about 24 drops of JC with a new teabag), and seems to have, to some degree, somewhat of a "straw mod" effect... it flows pretty nice, and when it's dry, it's pretty much out of juice.
Disadvantages: Cutting too much off can flood your atomizer, theoretically, though it hasn't happened to me yet...
Step 1. This whole thing starts with a standard teabag mod... if you've not seen the teabag mod, start with a Lipton Pyramid teabag (the flavor of tea doesn't matter)... there are other instructions on this forum on this (which were very, very good), so seek them out for more detail... this will be the concise version of the teabag mod, just to get you started. Here's our teabag, ready to use. Just make sure you don't have any hairs (like in the picture, YUCK!!) or they'll wind up in your filler
... you'll see our friend the cat hair here up until the end... and I wasn't reshooting this, lol. Oh well:
Step 2. Roll the teabag up about half-way sort of tight, more of a repeated folding:
Step 3: Then, roll progressively more loosely... when you're done, it should be fairly uniform spacing between concentric layers, and should be about the width of the cartridge:
Step 4: Once rolled up, fold evenly in half:
Step 5: Insert into cartridge FULLY (until it reaches the bottom) and trim as closely to the edge of the cartridge as possible:
Result of Tea-Bag Mod: You're probably already familiar with this part of the mod.. the traditional tea-bag mod, and it looks like this:
Step 6: Now here's where it gets interesting... and differs from the traditional tea-bag mod... starting with the folded (creased) end of the folded tea-bag, make a single cut up into the teabag, cutting about 50% up from the bottom (folded end) of the teabag:
Step 7: Once you're half-cut up the middle of the teabag, pull the uncut end towards you to begin cutting towards the outside... just be sure to use cleaner scissors... you never know how dirty your scissors are until examined under macro photography, lol!!!
The Result: Here's the teabag in the shape of a HALF TOOTH... hence the name:
Step 8: Insert the narrow end of the teabag filler into the cartridge, and push in gently until it won't go any further, and fill with juice in the normal fashion. Once done, it will look, on the outside, just like the teabag mod:
Hope this gives someone some extra vaping pleasure... let me know what you think!!
Cat hair.... mmmmmm.... YUMMY! Gotta call JC and have them make it a new flavor...
