I have a couple dozen cartos in circulation at any given time. I have abbreviated all of my flavors. I write on my black cartos with a silver sharpie, and I write on my silver cartos with a black sharpie. Then a tiny piece of scotch tape to cover it so it doesn't rub off. It hardly shows. I also put black sharpie dots near the end of my eGo batts right next to the eGo lettering to denote 1, 2, 3, etc...and a tiny piece of tape so I can keep them in an even rotation. It's not even noticeable.
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I have pretty much settled on stainless cartos/attys for all of my needs. As far as vaping is concerned, I am all over the place. When travelling, I like my ePower or Ikon because of the size with attys. At home or office, I will use my ProVari or Buzz with a tank/carto. I also like my original Screwdriver MKII with the 901 for some of the fruit juices. I use a combination of LR/HR/SR attys for my Reo when driving.
I keep 6 different juices in rotation stored in mini Mason jars (about 60 ml from HobbyLobby).
Since everything is stainless, I use an engraving tool with a diamond tip to number my tanks and cartos. (Cost about $10 from Harbor Freight). It does a nice job of writing on the hard barrell without really making a mess.
For instance, a number 1 will correspond to the number 1 bottle which is still my all time favorite: apple pie.
I find the the paint just peels off of attys when I clean them with ultrasound and my secret mixture.
I keep 6 different juices in rotation stored in mini Mason jars (about 60 ml from HobbyLobby).
Since everything is stainless, I use an engraving tool with a diamond tip to number my tanks and cartos. (Cost about $10 from Harbor Freight). It does a nice job of writing on the hard barrell without really making a mess.
For instance, a number 1 will correspond to the number 1 bottle which is still my all time favorite: apple pie.
I find the the paint just peels off of attys when I clean them with ultrasound and my secret mixture.
I use different colored nail polish for freshly filled cartomizer and different colored drip tips when in use. Samples bottles are cheap and last a long time
I just write what it is on a sticky note and cut it with a razor blade then tape it to the carto easy and free
I have been using design stickers for fingernails. I'm not very good at remembering what symbol goes with what flavour though so I'm going to try engraving the flavours on my stainless cartos. my brain seems to need to see the word. lol
I use small square colored stickers (found at Wally World). I write what juice it is and what ohms the carto is. I have so many cartos in circulation I found this to be the best way for me. The stickers can be easily removed so you can clean your cartos and reuse them them with different juices and use a new sticker.
I've been using 3/4" heat shrink tubing lately.
Cut a band about 1/4" to 3/8" wide, slip it over the carto and put it to the hair dryer/heat gun/lighter until it snugs up to the carto just enough to stay on but not so much that it can't be taken off to use on another one later.
I pre-made about a dozen each of five different colors using a blank carto so I wasn't heating up a carto with nicquid in it. You do NOT want to use adhesive-lined heat shrink tubing unless you want a lot more trouble getting it off of the cartomizer!
What I like about this is you get the color-coding, in bands as wide or narrow as you want, almost as thin as a label but easier to put on and remove, and it's re-usable.
Cut a band about 1/4" to 3/8" wide, slip it over the carto and put it to the hair dryer/heat gun/lighter until it snugs up to the carto just enough to stay on but not so much that it can't be taken off to use on another one later.
I pre-made about a dozen each of five different colors using a blank carto so I wasn't heating up a carto with nicquid in it. You do NOT want to use adhesive-lined heat shrink tubing unless you want a lot more trouble getting it off of the cartomizer!
What I like about this is you get the color-coding, in bands as wide or narrow as you want, almost as thin as a label but easier to put on and remove, and it's re-usable.
I started with the small rubber bands to color code them till I realized I needed at least 2 of each color to coordinate the bottle AND the carto. So I switched to Avery address labels and a fine point Sharpie. You can get about 10 strips out of one label ( gotta be economical lol ). It works and it's cheap. Two minor drawbacks though: 1-the labels tend to peel after a while. A thumbnail size piece of scotch tape fixes that. 2-the writing will run when juice gets dripped on it. I've considered wrapping the entire label in clear scotch tape to keep it waterproof. Of course if I'm going to go that far I may as well just go buy a label maker. In the mean time, this is a cheap solution from stuff I had laying around the house.
Nice thread! I too have been trying to find a good means of being able to label my cartos. Since I use the little clear rubber caps, I have tried just about every kind of marker/pen to write on them with no luck (they just rub off on your fingers after a little while). Next, I bought a pack of little multi colored labels to stick on to the rubber caps, but they wont stick to the rubber (tricky lil boogers!). Yesterday I was digging around in storage and found my acrylic craft paints I use to use to paint mini's for a table top war game I played (the paints are cheap and can be bought at Walmart for less than $1), so I decided to give them a try at labeling. Worked great by color coding with a little drop on the ends of the caps until I removed the cap and the paint cracked and flaked off. 
Since I have such an abundance of different color paints due to my hobby, I am thinking I may have found the best method of labeling my cartos. Today I am going to add another drop of paint to a cap, but this time I am going to also apply a clear coat of sealant (also bought at Walmart) over the paint for added cohesiveness. I'll let everyone know what I find out.
EDIT: Well, I ended up dabbing some clear coat over the drops of paint I put on the ends of the caps and so far it looks like it has done the trick. Granted I know not everyone has a bunch of different color paints along with a clear coat just sitting around their basements, but for a few bucks at Walmart it could be a viable means of labeling your carto caps. Since I do have a lot of paints sitting around, it looks like I found the way I will be color labeling my carto caps from now on...
Since I have such an abundance of different color paints due to my hobby, I am thinking I may have found the best method of labeling my cartos. Today I am going to add another drop of paint to a cap, but this time I am going to also apply a clear coat of sealant (also bought at Walmart) over the paint for added cohesiveness. I'll let everyone know what I find out.
EDIT: Well, I ended up dabbing some clear coat over the drops of paint I put on the ends of the caps and so far it looks like it has done the trick. Granted I know not everyone has a bunch of different color paints along with a clear coat just sitting around their basements, but for a few bucks at Walmart it could be a viable means of labeling your carto caps. Since I do have a lot of paints sitting around, it looks like I found the way I will be color labeling my carto caps from now on...
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This really is a great informational thread .. 
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Early on, I knew I had to figure out something on organization .. I hit on these small plastic sleeves used for trading cards .. they are designed to hold one card and a carto fits in just fine .. so, I label the sleeve with a permanent marker and drop a filled carto in it .. you can get 100 of these in a pack at hobby stores for a couple bucks ..
.. Early on, I knew I had to figure out something on organization .. I hit on these small plastic sleeves used for trading cards .. they are designed to hold one card and a carto fits in just fine .. so, I label the sleeve with a permanent marker and drop a filled carto in it .. you can get 100 of these in a pack at hobby stores for a couple bucks ..
Horizontal or vertical, nothing beats a Brother P-Touch for labeling everything related to vaping; bottles, cartos, batteries, you name it.
using different colored drip tips on the carto's would probably work, with an indicator on the bottle to match them up
I agree...
There are about a 1,001 uses for a P-Touch Labeler. One that I find very helpful is to print the Recipe of my DIY mixes and stick it to the Glass Bottle. That way I can make more by just pulling out the Bottle and reading the Recipe.
Here's what mine look like. I write down the flavor on a piece of paper and assign a number to it.....I keep in my box of juice.
I posted this back a little. Clear tape with black lettering with the P-touch from brother. Then I slip a Empire drip tip over the carto so you can't see it......OK, I'm a little .....
The number matches the bottle it came from.
The bottom one is a GLV Super Mini; the top one could be a full size 5v or a 3.7v Mini. Hard to tell 'cause we can't see how tall it is. Available at Electronic Cigarettes and E-Liquid - Great Lakes Vapor
Agreed. I don't know what i would do without my P-Touch labeller. Well actually I do- I would be complaining and sniffing bottles and cartos a lot...
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