As you can see my other hobby is electronics, so I'm no stranger to storing little components. As such I have become something of a connoisseur of these plastic storage bins. The ones you find at the hardware store suck because they're made from frosted polystyrene which is hard to see through.
A couple years ago I searched far and wide for the best ones and stocked up on several of the kind you see below. These are made from clear acrylic and they're a much better size (wider and shallower) for this sort of thing. They're hard to find in acrylic because it tends to break in shipping/retail so the stores don't carry them. You can get these from Jameco, Part # 319600. These also stack well with nesting rails along the bottom, and can be wall mounted.
Each drawer is the perfect size for a bottle of juice and up to a dozen cartos. So when I find a juice I like, I fill a bunch of new cartos, put the condoms back on and in a drawer they go. Then my system is to put used cartos back in the same drawer, sans condoms, so I know which ones need to be refilled and with what. When they're all empty I refill them all again.
I don't think I can overstate how much more efficient it is to fill these things in batches, and how nice it is to have a whole bunch ready to go instead of refilling on the fly. I can probably bulk fill 5-10 times faster than doing one-offs, and when I'm done the whole opertion gets neatly put away. There's just so much time and hassle saved in filling several cartos with one juice at a time.
It probably goes without saying but these drawers also happen to be just the right size for storing your various cigs, batteries, adaptors etc.
p.s. I don't bother with the spinning trick. I think it's an urban myth like tapping on a coke can to settle the bubbles before you open it. You'd get the same effect just by waiting the same amount of time it takes you to do it. However, I *have* found I can get a few more drops in by bobbing the carto up and down in the condom a couple times just before it bottoms out, which only takes a second. This seems to push the air out and distribute the juice a little better and with practice I am getting maximal fills without any bubbling up through the battery end.
I don't blow them out either. I just put caps on both ends and store them. Since they're going to be lying flat in there for a while, the juice will have plenty of time to soak in and the ends will be dry in time for vaping. Also because I fill several of one flavor at a time, I can recycle the same used condom for filling purposes and then put clean ones on for storage.
I'm just getting started with cartos so my routine hasn't stood the test of time yet. If anyone has other comments or suggestions I would be interested to hear your experiences with bulk filling.
A couple years ago I searched far and wide for the best ones and stocked up on several of the kind you see below. These are made from clear acrylic and they're a much better size (wider and shallower) for this sort of thing. They're hard to find in acrylic because it tends to break in shipping/retail so the stores don't carry them. You can get these from Jameco, Part # 319600. These also stack well with nesting rails along the bottom, and can be wall mounted.
Each drawer is the perfect size for a bottle of juice and up to a dozen cartos. So when I find a juice I like, I fill a bunch of new cartos, put the condoms back on and in a drawer they go. Then my system is to put used cartos back in the same drawer, sans condoms, so I know which ones need to be refilled and with what. When they're all empty I refill them all again.
I don't think I can overstate how much more efficient it is to fill these things in batches, and how nice it is to have a whole bunch ready to go instead of refilling on the fly. I can probably bulk fill 5-10 times faster than doing one-offs, and when I'm done the whole opertion gets neatly put away. There's just so much time and hassle saved in filling several cartos with one juice at a time.
It probably goes without saying but these drawers also happen to be just the right size for storing your various cigs, batteries, adaptors etc.
p.s. I don't bother with the spinning trick. I think it's an urban myth like tapping on a coke can to settle the bubbles before you open it. You'd get the same effect just by waiting the same amount of time it takes you to do it. However, I *have* found I can get a few more drops in by bobbing the carto up and down in the condom a couple times just before it bottoms out, which only takes a second. This seems to push the air out and distribute the juice a little better and with practice I am getting maximal fills without any bubbling up through the battery end.
I don't blow them out either. I just put caps on both ends and store them. Since they're going to be lying flat in there for a while, the juice will have plenty of time to soak in and the ends will be dry in time for vaping. Also because I fill several of one flavor at a time, I can recycle the same used condom for filling purposes and then put clean ones on for storage.
I'm just getting started with cartos so my routine hasn't stood the test of time yet. If anyone has other comments or suggestions I would be interested to hear your experiences with bulk filling.
