refill a prefill?

[wolfmonroe]

I've been at this about a week now, and I go through cartomizers like crazy. I bought the white cloud brand, which I believe are 510? I've been saving the carts as I'm a pack rat, hoping one day they will have a second use. Do they?
Thanks in advance.

 

[garyinco]

Sure. To not refill them would get expensive fast. Either drip-fill them or search for the "condom method" on here and at youtube. There are many videos. From my experience you should get a good 5-10 refills. I haven't used the ones sold by white cloud....

A refill can usually hold about 20 drops. I'd start with that.

 

[n0t1c3r]

what you can do is boil the cartos for 5 min. and let dry overnight. most of the time it will do the trick.


oh and like garyinco said, definitely refill carts.

 

[wolfmonroe]

Thanks for the quick responses! Boil plastic and all? The WC's (ha ha) have a paper wrapper, a plastic tip, and a plastic ring under them. I took one apart, and the filling is wrapped around a center piece that doesn't seem to come out. so just throw the whole assembly in?

 

[n0t1c3r]

sorry i thought you were using cartomizers.

you could rinse and dry the filler material in a cart though, i hope this helps.

 

[REET_AZ]

As long as you re-use the same juice in a carto, there is no great need to rinse frequently. We usually do abbot once a week. Some of them last much longer. Some not. Lots of good explanations for refilling carto's on this board and on YouTube.

Absolutely refill. That makes it so much more cost effective!

Good luck..

 

[wolfmonroe]

Cartomizers are the two piece arrangement (battery, and screw on tip), right?

 

[dormouse]

if they screw on then they are cartomizers. I do not recommend boiling them. Many people are not successful with the drying part of cleaning.

You may or may not be able to reuse them. If you ran them dry until they tasted singed, that singed taste will stick with them. You can try to reuse them. The best way to reuse cartos is to keep them damp in the first place and not run them so dry that they singe. keep them damp and use and reuse until the performance or flavor is degraded.

And warning - you probably have auto batteries. Auto batteries are much more easily damaged or killed by juice leaks from cartos. Make sure a carto is not going to leak before putting it back on your battery. And find out for sure what your model is and buy a reasonably price spare (preferably manual) battery (not at those sick prices White Cloud charges). I must say they win the prize for worst freakin ripoff - $90 for a slim white battery that should cost $15. That is sick.

And whoever told you it was a 510 is bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrong. The photos show MALE batteries. 510 has female batteries (recessed threads).

I find one person saying it is KR808D-1 (rather than the incompatibly threaded KR808D-2)
Go to VapeSafe.com and buy 2-3 KR8 prefilled cartos then see if they work on your battery. I say to get more than one in case there is a dud. These are not great cartos for refilling so don't go wild there. if KR8 cartos work then some good ones are the blanks and some of the prefills at Vapor4Life.com. And there are other good blanks around as well as prefills at Bloogplanet and Smoketip.

 

[wolfmonroe]

Thank you doormouse. I guess that's what I get for doing an hour of "research." I'll def check those out.

 

[wolfmonroe]

N they are def male batteries.

 

[dormouse]

Vapesafe is the only place I know where you can buy single prefilled KR8 cartos to try.

BTW if your old cartos were not singed and open easily (cap comes off) then you could try refilling some fairly recent ones with new juice and try one of the methods for cleaning the older ones. Drying is the trickier part.
One cleaning video. if your cartos have an inner donut shape seal you need to remove that too.
YouTube - How to clean cartos
And for drying some people have success with blowing out liquid then putting them standing on end in a 175 degree oven for a hour or more. Attempts at plain air drying can end up with mildew and mold.

If you determine you definitely have a KR808D-1, then considering a manual battery as a spare in case you kill a battery with a leaking carto. LiteCigUSA.net charges under $10 for a manual KR8 280mah battery (the standard length).

And re research - I have better luck using Google to search ECF. Google is better at prioritizing the answers and much better at multiword searches. You can search like tis:

site:e-cigarette-forum.com white cloud
site:e-cigarette-forum.com white cloud KR808D-1

And unfortunately the ripoff rebranders have a whole seedy upper crust of ecig sellers that is very visible on the web, seemingly supported by lots of fake review and comparison sites citing why they are the best, fake experts, "testimonials", bs bs bs. But it is often what people find first.

 

[Erfmann]

White cloud is an 808 and they will work with cartos from other vendors like v4l...the wc end caps are the hard plastic ones and are kinda tuff to remove, but it can be done...the v4l cartos have a nice soft end cap that pops out really easy, which makes refills easier. V4l also has a better flavor selection, and sells matching liquids...be careful not to overfill them, wolf...drops getting into auto batteries can fry the batt...


Ps...yes wc is an overpriced kit. We got a kit from them when we first started and before we discovered this forum...But they do work well, and they did get us off the cigs and into the vape world...live and learn..

Happy vaping