Going on week 7 of vaping, some things I've learned:
- It helps to prefill the carto, as if you were going to vape without a tank, before you punch the holes and before you put it in the tank. Currently, I just use the condomn method, from pbusardo's youtube tutorial (A PBusardo Tutorial : Filling Boge 510 Cartomizers - YouTube), to prefill and it works like a charm.
- If your carto gets flooded, one trick to make your vape buttery smooth again is to use the paperclip method (Linehan's Cartomizer Paper Clip Unflooding Trick - YouTube)- someone on the forums posted this tip in a thread, I don't know who the original originator is though, and it is much much better than blowing through my carto ever was for me. You basically just stick a paperclip all the way through the carto so that the paper clip is hanging out of both sides of it. Twirl your carto around a bit. Feel free to whipe down the paper clip and reinsert it again if you want. Stick the carto back on your PV and you should be good to go. If this doesn't work, you have other problems like maybe the holes you punched in the carto are too big.
- Two holes in the carto is sufficient for boba's. If you make the holes too big, you'll have consta-flooding, even after using the paperclip method. It might take some trial and error to find the perfect hole size for your juice though.
- If you have one of those tanks with the screws in the side, and your carto seems to be running a bit dry, there are a couple easy ways to resolve that. You could take out the the side-screw and then take a drag on your PV without pressing the power button. This will suck up juice into the carto, but don't do it more than once or twice or you might flood it. Sometimes, just removing the side-screw alone will help to refill the carto - you can tell it's getting refilled when an air bubble(s) starts to come out of the punched holes.
- Assuming you'll be vaping the same juice in your new carto, the hot swap method (Liquinator Tank Carto Hot Swap - Hack Method.avi - YouTube) for switching out carto's from your tank is very effective on my m1A1 tank. I hot swap all the time. Basically what you're doing is pushing out the old carto with the new carto in a way that keeps all the juice in your tank. No need to disassemble your tank every time. I don't think this will work on your momandpop tank because of the grippy grommets - that's not saying anything bad about their tanks though, I own one myself and it's a good affordable tank with a side screw already in.
- Some drip tips have a hole that's just too small for me to drip boba's into. The drip tip that came with my apollo tube (lavatube), for instance, didn't make the cut.
- Angled drip tips give you less heat than drip tips that just go straight up. The heat gets deminished in trying to make the bend of your angled tip where the straight tips don't have any bends for your heat to deal with.
-my metal drip tip has never gotten hot or warm, even at 12.5 watts on a 2ohm boge. Correction! Metal drip tip definitely got warm.
What tips or tricks do you know? Or, what have you learned along the way
note: not a discussion about PV devices
- It helps to prefill the carto, as if you were going to vape without a tank, before you punch the holes and before you put it in the tank. Currently, I just use the condomn method, from pbusardo's youtube tutorial (A PBusardo Tutorial : Filling Boge 510 Cartomizers - YouTube), to prefill and it works like a charm.
- If your carto gets flooded, one trick to make your vape buttery smooth again is to use the paperclip method (Linehan's Cartomizer Paper Clip Unflooding Trick - YouTube)- someone on the forums posted this tip in a thread, I don't know who the original originator is though, and it is much much better than blowing through my carto ever was for me. You basically just stick a paperclip all the way through the carto so that the paper clip is hanging out of both sides of it. Twirl your carto around a bit. Feel free to whipe down the paper clip and reinsert it again if you want. Stick the carto back on your PV and you should be good to go. If this doesn't work, you have other problems like maybe the holes you punched in the carto are too big.
- Two holes in the carto is sufficient for boba's. If you make the holes too big, you'll have consta-flooding, even after using the paperclip method. It might take some trial and error to find the perfect hole size for your juice though.
- If you have one of those tanks with the screws in the side, and your carto seems to be running a bit dry, there are a couple easy ways to resolve that. You could take out the the side-screw and then take a drag on your PV without pressing the power button. This will suck up juice into the carto, but don't do it more than once or twice or you might flood it. Sometimes, just removing the side-screw alone will help to refill the carto - you can tell it's getting refilled when an air bubble(s) starts to come out of the punched holes.
- Assuming you'll be vaping the same juice in your new carto, the hot swap method (Liquinator Tank Carto Hot Swap - Hack Method.avi - YouTube) for switching out carto's from your tank is very effective on my m1A1 tank. I hot swap all the time. Basically what you're doing is pushing out the old carto with the new carto in a way that keeps all the juice in your tank. No need to disassemble your tank every time. I don't think this will work on your momandpop tank because of the grippy grommets - that's not saying anything bad about their tanks though, I own one myself and it's a good affordable tank with a side screw already in.
- Some drip tips have a hole that's just too small for me to drip boba's into. The drip tip that came with my apollo tube (lavatube), for instance, didn't make the cut.
- Angled drip tips give you less heat than drip tips that just go straight up. The heat gets deminished in trying to make the bend of your angled tip where the straight tips don't have any bends for your heat to deal with.
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What tips or tricks do you know? Or, what have you learned along the way
note: not a discussion about PV devices
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