I am still unclear on the two straws and how you are sealing the top of the reservoir straw?? Can someone pleeez post a couple of pictures????
No more starving the atomizer!
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Quite true, their main goal was not to design the best product, rather a product they could make cheap & make a fortune off of... After all it is just a simple element that heats liquid... not exactly a break through in engineering. They put a micro glow plug in a stick & called it a cigarette. =)
couldnt you just buy a blank cart, pull out the poly, chop it in lets say half. fill the cart with juice and replace the 50% of the poly, thus having a saturated poly with a reservoir creating a negative force so that once you draw the spent juice is then replaced by the negative pressure. similar to an old fashioned lantern wick?
Exactly what we are doing, creating a wick which consumes fuel. In this case, the wick is not consumed. I have put off my experimentation for a little while, just using a blue foam plug in a standard cart for now. Works great, no leaks, etc. I just got too busy looking for work and should put that as number one priority. I ran out of juice and only have menthol. I hate menthol, so reverted back to analogs 25% of the time.
Using the blue foam plug increase fluid consumption, but you utilize all of it, none wasted and no leaking. Right now, a battery (stock manual 510) and a cart last the same period of time. Until I get a battery mode, I just load up a few 510's and burn through them. Once I have a battery mod, HV 5v preferred, I will work again on a cart which is worthy of the battery mod itself.
As far as plugging the straw on the one end... I put a piece of saran wrap over the end and stuck a piece of blue foam in it. The saran wrap seals it and the foam keeps tension to keep it sealed.
Bah. No pics, never happened.
Lol, I'll get there. By no means are the pictures pretty! Two straws stuck in a pen and inserted into an atomizer with no bridge!
As of right now, with the blue foam plug, a battery and cart last the same amount of time. It is concienient, I just load up a few and go through them. Having a cart that lasts longer than a battery is self defeating, I just want to pick it up and vape. Need to get a battery mod I guess!
Not to mention all I have is menthol juice, went back to 50/50 analogs until I get some coin for juice.
I would like to try this, but I absolutely cannot visualize how having juice in a sealed drinking straw ever gets any juice to the coil, much less an "ideal" amount. I also realize that you are not as interested in continuing when you hate the taste of the only juice you have.
Can any of the rest of you who think you understand this please post a picture or two? I know this is somewhat unusual here; but otherwise, I think this idea is one that is going to die for lack of clarity. Thanks.
If you look back at the first comment in the thread, there is a polyfill plug at the end of the straw.
This like watching the balloon boy episode! Let me know when he lands with pictures?
Incidentally I had a atomizer I thought I ruined....as I was cleaning it and noticed what I thought was poly sticking to the side (510) when it turned out to be some of the wick had slid out.
I wound up fully removing the wick and bridge to play with this.
Thoughts:
1: I simply shoved half a stock carts work of poly inside and packed it down and gave it about 4 drops. That atty was flooded almost immediately.
2: I figured blue foam plugs touching directly would melt the foam and not wick anyways to the coil. BOTH CORRECT. Blue foam = burnination, don't do it.
3: I dry burned the atty and then direct dripped one drop. Good GOD ALMIGHTY...huge throat hit, plume. etc.
4: Ohh yeah, removing the poly from the atty was almost disastrous as the poly was attached to the coal. Had to take it off in a couple small pieces. The reason this happened is that I directly pushed a piece down right on to the coil. The straw mod the OP discussed may help avoid this. Once I inserted an empty cart, it further pressed the poly. Random fibers + spring like metal object = entanglement.
I will play around some more with the straw/blue foam/poly idea.
I wound up fully removing the wick and bridge to play with this.
Thoughts:
1: I simply shoved half a stock carts work of poly inside and packed it down and gave it about 4 drops. That atty was flooded almost immediately.
2: I figured blue foam plugs touching directly would melt the foam and not wick anyways to the coil. BOTH CORRECT. Blue foam = burnination, don't do it.
3: I dry burned the atty and then direct dripped one drop. Good GOD ALMIGHTY...huge throat hit, plume. etc.
4: Ohh yeah, removing the poly from the atty was almost disastrous as the poly was attached to the coal. Had to take it off in a couple small pieces. The reason this happened is that I directly pushed a piece down right on to the coil. The straw mod the OP discussed may help avoid this. Once I inserted an empty cart, it further pressed the poly. Random fibers + spring like metal object = entanglement.
I will play around some more with the straw/blue foam/poly idea.
Really. The OP says:Bah. No pics, never happened.
And can't figure out how to hit the 'Manage Attachments' button?
Check out this guys mod, at least he's got some pics (forget about the tubing for the battery though). Seems it should work without the atty bridge.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/cartridge-mods/51588-clear-pvc-mod-prototype-idea.html
I love this line:
I bought the 2 packs of tubing and drove a block down to Lowes in the same shopping center. I would rather had used clear pvc pipe but I figured Lowes wouldn't have it anyway. I never went in. I made it right there in the truck so I didn't need any connectors or anything.
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