Questions about cleaning and refilling V4L carts

[Walleye05]

Hello all I'm new here, love vaping since discovery of this a month ago! So now I started buying eliquids from v4l and refill my used carts.

Usually I refill the same flavor in the same carts. However I do dripping method, and then blow in it after 2-3 drops to let it be forced down, drop more, blow.

My question is sometime when i drip a cart, then i let it sit like 15 mins, and plug it to the passthur, and it feels hot inside my mouth, so i blow out, just a little come out and it tastes funny, not the burnt taste at all, just some flavor. Its kinda like the liquid has not gotten through the absorbing padding and its like I'm vaping a empty cart or Is that because I over filled the cart? I usually drip slow until a little starts to come out of the battery end then I stop. Is this a good way or way too much for the atomoizer to handle?

As for cleaning, I started with warm water and just let it go in the open end and out of the battery end, blow it, a few times then after that I blow it all out as much as I can without blowing up my head lol. Then let it sit upside down overnight. However I did the baking soda and vingear method, which seems to work a little better.

But After I clean the cart, some of them dont really work very well, I mean i get the heat in my mouth, and little vapor comes out.

Now my other question is I tried the syrgine method, I bought some from walgreens, but the needle is too thin and almost impossible to get liquid in then push it out is so hard that the needle would pop out and spill liquid everywhere I am wondering where do you get the syrgine and what size needle do you use? Because I am considering using that so I can get the liquid in good, because I think that would be more efficent than dripping.

Thanks

 

[Eclipsed1770]

I have a KR808d-1 which is almost the same model as the V4L. I fill the cartos with the drip method, rotating the carto as I drip putting in 15-18 drops in an empty carto. No need to blow through it at this point yet. I let it sit at a 45 degree angle for about 15-20 minutes rotating every 5 minutes. After that time period I drip a 2-4 more drops so that it looks slushy inside. I let it sit another 5 minutes then blow any excess out the battery end into a paper towel. This clears the airway. It should be ready for vaping now.

I tried the condom method but didn't care for it. I think a Syringe would be too much of a pain. If you really want to try the syringe then get one at a pet care place. They would be higher gage, bigger needle type.

Cleaning cartos can be a pain. Do a search on EFC and check the threads, someone recently posted a video in a thread that showed cleaning 510 cartos. There is also a video on spinning the excess water out of them.

Good luck and welcome to EFC.

 

[dormouse]

What liquid are you using? You need to put in as much liquid as it wants (or for a V4L blank, 18+ drops). Always take the carto off the battery when filling. I hold a tissue on the threaded end hole. After filling a blank with fairly thin juice (70-80% PG), I clean it up including blowing into the threaded end with the open end down to clean the air channel. And when I am vaping, if the vapor seems a bit light or a bit dry or the carto is getting too warm I add more juice, clear the channel, etc.

I find my thinner juices (like WOWBacco from V4L) soak in most easily. Their WOW cartos can get pretty hot when new. I use a plastic or delrin drip tip as a mouthpiece on the carto anyway so that does not bother me.


I do not attempt to clean. Some day I might try but many people do not have success with cleaning and drying them. I get a week or so use out of a V4L one and then start another one.

 

[Walleye05]

Thanks for the information, Thats how i do for drip method, usually put like 3-4 drops after 20ish vapes to keep it moist, works well that way.

As for syringe method, i found some with 21g needle, works much better, so i filled up some cleaned out wow vanilla carts with new wow vanilla liquid using syringe. Well they dont produce the same amount of vapor as it did before. I tested them all, the same results.... So i tried a brand new prefilled wow vanilla, it works wonderful. Is it because its filled too much? What causes?

I will look around about cleaning carts, theyre not fun but I want them to last long and taste good, so gotta clean them to save money! new blank carts for 8.95 for 5 can get costly after buying them often rather than clean and reuse.

EDIT***

Dormouse- didn't see your post! Thanks and when it seems dry or warm like you say, i cannot fill anymore liquid since it will overfill and go through the airway hole. Like i stated up above those vanillas, I am going to let them sit for a few hours and try them again to see if they are any better.

I clean the ones that I use up for a week, I dont clean them every time i use them.