Shelf Life of a LR Yeti Cartomizer?

[Katatonik]

I ordered 2 5 packs of LR Yeti Cartomizers 1/27.
6 of them worked right out of the box. That's all I needed, so never tried the other 4.
I got some juice the other day, and sure enough every single one of the other 4 just burned.
They weren't dead, but they just burn. Terribly. No vapor, only smoke. Nasty horrible smoke.

Do cartomizers have a shelf life? Or was just one of the packs a bad batch?
Now I don't have any empty cartos for my new juice.

Any way to salvage them or do I need to just throw them out and order a new batch?

 

[cddz]

I use them and get bad ones here and there, It sucks too. All I say is oh my poor Tiramisu! I suffer through it, sometimes it goes away. I hate wasting my Tiramisu. I have 450mL here but dayum that one bad carto took away some of my Tiramisu.... did I mention I love Tiramisu?

 

[Katatonik]

I understand that some cartomizers are just bad.
I just thought it was weird that I used 6 that worked great, and then two and a half weeks later I try 4 from one box and all of them were bad.

 

[cddz]

That is an odd one. I buy them 10 packs at a time and never noticed anything like that.

 

[VanderVape]

Kat and I have this thing that we do... we take the bumpers off and put the regular bumper on the battery end, but not all the way down. We fill the new cartos until they drip out the battery connector end a little. Take off the bumper, give a little blow into a kleenex so its not flooded, wipe the battery end off, then hook it up and begin vaping. have yet to have a burnt tasting one since.

When we first got them Kat messed up three that she had to throw away before we started doing what I mentioned above. Now with doing this (about 20 drops) it hasn't happened. Wet carto, happy carto.

I would include pics, but im on my phone and Kats filling out job apps on the puter. If you all want some pics let me know.

 

[Katatonik]

The thing I noticed in the bad ones was that the coil came up about 3 mm above the other ones.
I'm wondering if that might be the source of the problem. Probably not, but that's what I noticed as a similarity in the 4 bad ones.

Anyways, Rob PMed me and told me to file a customer service ticket. They said they would throw in a box of them with my next shipment.