Keeping track of what you've put in a carto

[Lovin_it]

I've been filling used cartos/blank cartos with various juices and experimenting with how to keep track.

So far, I'm not having much luck finding a method that is easy and works.

Cutting Avery labels down after writing the juice flavor then wrapping round the carto works, but it's taking a long time. Writing a number on the carto and having a separate legend didn't really work out either.

Anyone have a suggestion?

 

[alex.vprv]

I use a sharpie to write abbreviations or initials on the bottom carto condom. Just remember to let the marker dry before handling.

 

[Bawn]

i use two juices at once. one flavour in a stainless cartos one in a black cartos.

 

[ThreePutt]

Several threads on organizing (including a few I've started myself). Some popular suggestions:

1. Orthodontic rubber bands fit nicely on the carto and juice bottle.
2. Stickers - Avery, as you've suggested. I've used colored stickers (green, orange, yellow, pink, red). I sometimes will write on the sticker if using the same color more than once. If so, I'll write the first letter of the flavor (R for RY4, B for blackberry, etc.)
3. Colored carto caps (replaces the white mouthpiece end)
4. Colored drip tips - my wife's current strategy. Crystal Clear vaping throws in a drip tip or two with each order, and I'm collecting all the colors. Purple for grape, black for blackberry, silver for Cuban cigar, etc. She doesn't do many flavors though.

When I first started, I loaded up on about 60 flavors, and had trouble keeping up with them. I've settled to a rotation of two or three flavors, so I don't use the labeling system anymore. I have different capacity cartos, so the larger one gets the primary all-day vape, with secondary flavor(s) going to the smaller cartos. I also have black and stainless steel, and separate flavors that way.

Good luck!

 

[Lovin_it]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I really like the ortho band idea.

ThreePutt - I did a search, but after viewing numerous results that weren't what I was looking for, I gave up.

Thanks, everyone!

 

[Optimo]

I use my nose lol...most flavors have an unmistakable smell.

 

[IThrenodyI]

I dab nail polish on the carto and corresponding bottle.

 

[juicejunky]

I use white gaffers tape. It stays on, you can write with any kind of pen, and you can take it off and reuse the label on the next carto. Handy stuff for all kinds of things--almost as strong as cloth duct tape but removable with little or no residue. Good for labeling bottles too.

 

[r77r7r]

I've heard the silver(oil?) type sharpie works great. And the colored hairbands from a local pharmacy are cheap.

 

[Killjoy1]

While I have a crapload of different flavors, I usually only have a handful in my regular rotation at any given time. I also have quite a large collection of drip tips in various shapes and colors and styles. Basically I identify the flavors in my cartomizers by the drip tip. Works for me and I don't need to make any further effort to label or mark them

 

[daveinleics]

I use several of the methods above, but also use the little plastic bags that often come with vaping stuff you buy. You can then keep the juice bottle and the carto you used in it in the same bag and put it in your box/drawer whatever. Good for juice you don't regularly use.

 

[Bozzlite]

I use a sharpie to write abbreviations or initials on the bottom carto condom. Just remember to let the marker dry before handling.

This is the simplest and easiest way for me too.

 

[madjack]

This is the simplest and easiest way for me too.

I use a silver metalic or oil paint Sharpie for this...I also use different colored drip tips...in the end, the colored drip tips work best...................
madjack

 

[sandybeach]

Geeez I must have way too many. I label mine with a dymo labeler.

 

[VaporChic]

I don't Carto's anymore but when I did:

1. I used those little rubber bands with different colors and wrote the corresponding juice down on a little paper that went in my travel ecig case.
2. Stickers - Any kind I could find around.
3. Different drip tips. SO I would know what carto has what. I would also write that down. Bad memory, lol plus once you get into the menthol fruity stuff is can sometimes be hard to distinguish the difference between juices in cartos.

I hope something works for you!!1

 

[sandybeach]

This is what I use

 

[billherbst]

Brother P-Touch labeler.

If you're like I am and have over 150 loaded cartos and carto-tanks, this is (as far as I'm concerned) the only way to go. Slick, handsome, easy, minimum hassle, perfectly organized. The labeling tape is a snap to work with---very legible; waterproof (and juice-proof); type won't fade, smudge, or feather; impervious to anything but a nuclear blast. Sticks forever, but peels off easily with no glue residue.

1/4" black tape with white type (TZe-315) works beautifully for carto/atty labeling (put it around the circumference of the tube just under the drip tip so that the tape overlaps itself). 1/2" white tape with 2 lines of black type (TZe-231) is ideal for labeling juice bottles of every size, from 3ml to 50ml.

Link below is to a good internet vendor that has frequent sales on factory-refurbished or closeout hand-held P-Touch labeler units at 70-80% off retail. I use a hand-held PT1010S that's available now---today---for $8.99 + shipping. I also own the one below that, the desktop PT1100QL, on sale as a refurb now for $7.31 + shipping. I like the PT1010 better, but the PT1100 has more bells and whistles. The refurbs are perfect, by the way---flawless and work just like a brand-new unit. No need to pay retail prices ($30-40) for a new one.

Tape cassettes are pricey ($10-14 depending on size and style), but they last a long time (each cassette holds 26 feet of tape, which will label about 120 cartos/bottles). Cheapest place to buy tape cassettes is from Amazon because of free shipping over $25.

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