PTB for Go-Carts?

[Kobudo]

Has anyone tried cleaning and re-filling a go-cart using some PTB to replace the inner wrap? I'm thinking about trying this, as it seems workable... just didn't know if it has been done before. I didn't see any threads discussing it... thanks for any input that can be offered!

 

[mohawkx]

I've used Fluval.

 

[txtumbleweed]

I don't know why you would want to replace it myself. It seems like a great filler. It wicks extremely well and holds lots of juice. Maybe it is because I just don't know alot about filler. What is PTB and what are its benefits?

 

[Kobudo]

I'm planning on keeping the poly-fill for the filler, just using PTB for the inner wrap. It's thin and I know it can wick, and I've gone without the inner wrap in the past which led to burned poly-fil and leaking issues in test carts. I am wondering if an inner wrap of PTB material can cure the post-cleaning issues I've had.

 

[Kobudo]

I don't know why you would want to replace it myself. It seems like a great filler. It wicks extremely well and holds lots of juice. Maybe it is because I just don't know alot about filler. What is PTB and what are its benefits?

PTB is the Pyramid Tea Bag. It looks like a polyester material, and was popular at one time as a filler for 510 and other carts. I still have a bunch of it from before I gave up on carts for my 901 stuff. It's thin, and it would take a bunch to fill a go-cart using that exclusively.

 

[mohawkx]

Might be worth experimenting with. I'm finding that the filler that comes with the gocart is really perfect for the job. The more I re-insert the filler in a gocart the more I realize that getting the filler to maintain its natural consistancy and not compressing it or crimping it the better it works after cleaning. There's a reason the cotton sheet and the filler are the same size as the tube. You can compress it more but you lose something. Gocarts are great, as I cleaned a carto and re-inserted the filler and it didn't hit right. I just pulled the filler and looked to see what was up and I saw that I'd put a dense crease in the filler when I re-installed it causing the juice not to wick properly. The juice was jammed at the crease. I cleaned it again and did another install and I'm vaping on it right now. Very smooth and good. Works perfect. The method I posted really works for gocart filler but you have to do it properly, with an understanding of how the filler works and how the juice travels.
Good luck with your pTB experiments and please let us know how it works out.

 

[Kobudo]

I just know PTB never burned in the old 510 carts, and the cotton burns in the go-carts. Then again, the old PTB mod put the filler in contact with the bridge, which was fairly far from the coil. I'll post up results here after playing with it.

 

[mohawkx]

I just know PTB never burned in the old 510 carts, and the cotton burns in the go-carts. Then again, the old PTB mod put the filler in contact with the bridge, which was fairly far from the coil. I'll post up results here after playing with it.

Yeah, I've noticed that to. The cotton is sometimes burned right where it meets the coil. Sounds like a good direction to take. Keep us posted.

 

[Kobudo]

Alright, so I took apart a go-cart after coming home, cleaned it, and used a length of PTB twice as long as the cotton inner wrap since the new material was so much thinner. I wrapped the new ptb inner wrap around a coffee stirrer, then wrapped that with the poly-fill. After re-inserting around the tube in the go-cart, it looked something like this:

Just like a new one from the post office. It works just the same, too, after loading with juice. So far, no down-side to re-loading them with this mod. Unfortunately, no real gain, either. I may try another one with a piece of PTB that is the same length as the original inner wrap and see what that does for wicking. If the PTB proves to be "burn-proof" around the coil, I would call this a solid design change.

 

[txtumbleweed]

PTB is the Pyramid Tea Bag. It looks like a polyester material, and was popular at one time as a filler for 510 and other carts. I still have a bunch of it from before I gave up on carts for my 901 stuff. It's thin, and it would take a bunch to fill a go-cart using that exclusively.

Oh ok I've heard of the tea bag for carts. Thanks for the explanation.