No Vapor At All

[Buzzy]

Oh, and without the end caps or o rings when you put them in the oven!

 

[cyberwolf]

I boiled my cartos last week with pretty good results. It sounds like your may just still have some residual water in there. Try putting them in a ziplock bag for day with some rice to absorb any extra water.

I agree 100%. I have blown them out, let them sit in the sun for a day and then sit around for a couple of days and was still able to blow more water out. If there is water, you won't get vapor. Hopefully the rice will work. I have used boiling water and just hot water rinses numerous times. As long as you get them dry, they should work fine.

As for PG juice, that's practically all I use and it works just fine in cartomizers.

 

[teikyo30]

I'll let everyone know tomorrow how it turns out and try the oven thing if I need to (wish I could microwave them).

 

[ScatRD]

Is it possible that the tasty vapor e-juice is just crap and that's the problem?

I doubt that VERY seriously, Geoff makes a very good product and a lot of the members here use and love his products, myself included, happen to be enjoying his TastyFinger as I type this...

I drip fill my cartos from the mouth end while the cap is off so I can see exactly what's going on and not overfill them which will cause flavor but no vapor as well.

 

[Princessdee]

I'm thinking they are still wet.

I clean my cartos often (to change flavors, or just when they "marshmallow" on me.)

I wish I could find the video now. It's a man from Australia using this method, but he uses water.

I take a 5ml syringe and put the inner clear round cap on the end. Put it in the carto, so the clear ring makes a seal. Use the syringe to pull VODKA thru and squirt it back out. Repeat several times.

When you feel like you're done, take the syringe tip out of the vodka and pull and push to get the liquid out. Blow through very had a couple times. GENTLY dry burn on and off for a few minutes.

Fill...enjoy.

The vodka dries quickly and you don't have to wait for 4 days for the water to dry out.

 

[msroulette]

It really sounds to me like they are still wet. I found that even overnight drying didn't get them dry enough, but after I let them sit a few days, they were vaping like champs again. The rice thing is a great idea to make them dry faster. I haven't tried that myself, yet...I've just been piling up cartomizers to clean for a couple weeks, since I have blanks left.

 

[rosesense]

If you hear a sizzle, they aren't dead. Probably wet as others have said. Dry them for a few days and refill. Also put a drop or two on the atty. Puff a few times and that should get them going. I have refilled cartos many, many times and they still work.

 

[teikyo30]

Sorry, I was busy the last few days and just decided to let the cartomizers sit in the rice and just dry, dry, dry.

I just tried filling one about an hour ago and tried hitting it just now. It seems to be working. I'll have to fill the others to be sure.

I do question my choice in flavor, though, mojito wasn't the best idea. I should have stuck with menthol.

 

[teikyo30]

How long are the ejuice things supposed to last? I added 1oz of 48mg to 4oz of doubler, so that's 5oz of 9.6mg. I managed to fill 7 of those plastic container things you use to drop it in the cartomizers.

 

[Little Girl]

Sorry, I was busy the last few days and just decided to let the cartomizers sit in the rice and just dry, dry, dry.

I just tried filling one about an hour ago and tried hitting it just now. It seems to be working. I'll have to fill the others to be sure.

Yay, so they just weren't dry enough, and that means your cartomizers are probably all okay. Vape on!

 

[Princessdee]

How long are the ejuice things supposed to last? I added 1oz of 48mg to 4oz of doubler, so that's 5oz of 9.6mg. I managed to fill 7 of those plastic container things you use to drop it in the cartomizers.

I think you mean you filled 7 bottles. That's roughly 0.7 oz per bottle. I think that'd be 21ml per bottle.

I use 6ml per day, but I'm on the high side. My hubby uses 5. A lot of folks on here use no more than 3ml per day.

So each bottle should last you somewhere between 3 - 7 days, if you don't overfill and lose a lot of it to wiping it up.

I think that's what you're asking.

 

[redcat1948]

I boiled my cartos last week with pretty good results. It sounds like your may just still have some residual water in there. Try putting them in a ziplock bag for day with some rice to absorb any extra water.

I put mine in the oven after cleaning - 250 degrees (no more than that) for 1 hour. Several folks on ECF recommended that and it works great.