Superiority of cartos over bottom wick tanks

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Of course! Don't know many who have the willpower to leave that new juice sitting without testing it as soon as they get their grubby little hands on it. :lol:

What helps me is I didn't have the will power and ended up with enough juice available to vape

I don't have a reason not to steep

plus honestly I don't want to get a bad impression on a juice I might have a great experience with

there are so few that a that great I want to get the right feel for the juice wile on my hunt
 

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I agree to disagree with you. Two people use the same equipment and get different results because of different factors in play. Assuming they are using the exact same juice, the varying factors would be a different technique used (one works better than the other's) or user error in some form or fashion. That can be the only explanation.

Most people who give up on cartotanks didn't have the knowledge of using a proven techique and following it to the letter, or were using poor equipment with a resulting poor performance and experience.
Sometimes it can be as simple as adjusting one's technique of their draw on a cartotank. Most often it is the result of not priming the carto correctly. I've guided scores of new cartotank users through their trials, and the vast majority end up enjoying their tanks.

I've been using cartotanks almost exclusively for 15 months. They give me fuller flavor of my juices, are more consistant and dependable than clearomizers, and are maintainance free. These work for ME.

Obsolete technology? I think not. I've done the RBA route. When they are working at their optimum, there's not a finer vape. But I find them to be inconsistant and fiddly, just as you found cartotanks. It's all about finding what works best for you. I don't appreciate people who dog a particular way of vaping because it didn't work for them. You can share information with others that it didn't work for you, but ridiculing people who get a great vape using something you don't like serves no positive purpose here.

RBAs tickle my engeneering fancy. But for convenience I use disposables. Back a couple of months ago I tried again. Got me some resurrectors and an AGR locking tank. REALLY, comparing a Vapeonly BCC, an iGo L and a carto tank side by side. First side by side the igo L (running a 1.6 double bow wick and coil) and the Vapeonly (with a broken in 1.8 ohm head, full wicks) at 8W on an SVD. Then, the carto tank. The carto DOES have a fuller vapor, thicker. That's the only pro I see to carto tanks.
Technique is something I research a lot. Predrilled cartos are usually too small, I used a saddle punch. Punched the first, primed it, if it was still dry punched the second one. Back then I used 70/30 PGVG (mostly Dekang).
On the other hand, the Vapeonly is foolproof. Open a new head, WASH IT (something nobody does), dry it with a piece of paper towel, fill it, prime the head by blowing INTO the clearo and boom! off you go. Best flavor comes from removing some whisps (and I mean it) of wick and soon you'll have plumes of vapor. MIND YOU not as saturated as those of a carto tank, but not bad at all. It's a small drawback for a lot of convenience.
Also I see people trying just one bottom coil and saying "I don't like it". Kanger is not the standart by any means, now other vendors are venturing into that too. CE3 XL regular and 3ml tanks will hold the dearest place in my heart. Never a dry hit, never burnt taste (except when I used the 3ml with the sleeve), but now are a thing of the past. As should carto tanks.
Oh, and REO users! Depending on the juice and the atty used the difference is negligible. I dug out my REO (stashed since 2012) and went into the comparison too.
Taste is subjective, so is convenience. I love slapping a BCC into the nearest PV near (sometimes my bedside PV, a V8 1200 mAh passthrough). The 33.3 chips don't rattle with BCC, only with cartomizers (try, you'll see for yourself).
 

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See my post above yours about how easy to fill a cartotank, my next video will be how to install and prime a carto in seconds (and requires no prefilling the carto) Im just waiting for this carto to start working poorly before i put a new one in and make the vid, and this carto seems to be undying for some reason...

As far as convenience goes, my cartotank is easier to use than my vapeonly BCC or any of my clearos were, hands down
 

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I can fill my evods and T3's a slightly easier then carto tanks

but filling carto tanks are hardly a bother at all with a simple filling tool

and they last a whole lot longer so I am filling less often

and there for not spending anymore time filling

I dont know how. You have to unscrew the head, with a carto tank you just pop it in, you have to avoid spilling into the center, not with a carto tank, and if you do spill some into the center, youre stuck rolling up tissue or paper towel to dry it out. I could beat you in a refill contest any day!
 

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See my post above yours about how easy to fill a cartotank, my next video will be how to install and prime a carto in seconds (and requires no prefilling the carto) Im just waiting for this carto to start working poorly before i put a new one in and make the vid, and this carto seems to be undying for some reason...

As far as convenience goes, my cartotank is easier to use than my vapeonly BCC or any of my clearos were, hands down

I like videos that don't have a lot of talking in them. :) And for a video about how to change cartos without pouring out the liquid, click on the link in my signature. Note: It only works with tanks that have interchangeable top and bottom caps, like an IBTanked.
 

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LOL! I'm faster at switching cartos, but I only put in new ones after the old ones die.

I prefer priming my cartos. I use the tiniest holes possible and would have to suck on it too long.

The Ocelot Method of Carto Filling (aka The Upside-Down Condom)



Im doing an informative video, if you want to race im game! Well when this carto is ready to go =) Also ill beat you overall in priming time, and i do it with my single hole smoktechs(pinhole) too, bam!!!
 

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Im doing an informative video, if you want to race im game! Well when this carto is ready to go =) Also ill beat you overall in priming time, and i do it with my single hole smoktechs(pinhole) too, bam!!!

I get to pick the music.

Your videos are good! You need to make more, but please don't start with "Yo" or "Whazzap." There are too many of those. My video was just for fun. I already posted detailed instructions twice: once as a tutorial and once as a blog.
 
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Im doing an informative video, if you want to race im game! Well when this carto is ready to go =) Also ill beat you overall in priming time, and i do it with my single hole smoktechs(pinhole) too, bam!!!

I refuse to suck on anything in a video that will be posted to youtube.
 

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I get to pick the music.

Your videos are good! You need to make more, but please don't start with "Yo" or "Whazzap." There are too many of those. My video was just for fun. I already posted detailed instructions twice: once as a tutorial and once as a blog.


Im holding the International Ecig Olympics at my house this year. Events such as "Largest CE4 Dryhit", "100 Meter exploding subohm Mod", and "Oops i dropped my glass tank and it broke, who should i blame?" will certainly be crowd pleasers. Prepare your A game.
 

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Im holding the International Ecig Olympics at my house this year. Events such as "Largest CE4 Dryhit", "100 Meter exploding subohm Mod", and "Oops i dropped my glass tank and it broke, who should i blame?" will certainly be crowd pleasers. Prepare your A game.

My personal triumph was in Grabbing a Dry LR Carto By Mistake and Taking a Deep Drag at 9 Watts. I got extra points for popping the coil and possible respiratory trauma.
 
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