OK so I have used the advice here and gotten myself into an ego battery with clearomizers. More reading has led me to tanks. But here is my question. So far, because I am new I suppose, I have been kind of a flavor ADD guy. I have been switching and trying daily. When doing this, I have found it easy to clean my clearomizer so I don't get the mix of flavors. I am curious if this is hard to do with a tank. The carto and other pieces. Am I right in assuming it is a much bigger pain in the ....?
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You can go about this situation in a couple of ways.
If you only have a single cartotank, and you wish to change the flavor, you would need to empty the tank and save the liquid not used in a container (original bottle?). The carto could be saved for later use by capping both ends with the white condoms that cartos come with, and the holes in the cartomizer taped. This should keep the juice in that carto from drying out so that the carto can be used in the future.
You would then rinse out the tank and restart with a fresh carto for a new flavor.
I have multiple tanks at my disposal. I have up to 10 tanks in circulation, each with their own flavor. Of course, I've accumulated this number of tanks over months time. I keep these organized in the below DIY tank case. 8-Piece Mini Tool Set with Case | Shop Hobby Lobby
If you only have a single cartotank, and you wish to change the flavor, you would need to empty the tank and save the liquid not used in a container (original bottle?). The carto could be saved for later use by capping both ends with the white condoms that cartos come with, and the holes in the cartomizer taped. This should keep the juice in that carto from drying out so that the carto can be used in the future.
You would then rinse out the tank and restart with a fresh carto for a new flavor.
I have multiple tanks at my disposal. I have up to 10 tanks in circulation, each with their own flavor. Of course, I've accumulated this number of tanks over months time. I keep these organized in the below DIY tank case. 8-Piece Mini Tool Set with Case | Shop Hobby Lobby
You can also clean the cartomizer out (if in case you really don't like the juice in it anymore) by using the turkey baster method. There are some good youtube videos on this process.
If you're like me and trying a lot of juices, but don't have a bunch of cartos on hand, this way works pretty good. Sometimes a flavor will taste good at first, or at least be vapable, but after a little while becomes totally disagreeable. I'm waiting for this one particular vendor to have the cartos I want in stock, and am limited to reusing cartos for the moment.
If you're like me and trying a lot of juices, but don't have a bunch of cartos on hand, this way works pretty good. Sometimes a flavor will taste good at first, or at least be vapable, but after a little while becomes totally disagreeable. I'm waiting for this one particular vendor to have the cartos I want in stock, and am limited to reusing cartos for the moment.
I use something similar, I have the large EGO carrying case, it has two of those little stretchy bands but has 2 mesh pockets as well that I can store about 8 tanks in as well. I might end up picking up that case though, looks as if it were made for tanks
Tank would be anything that holds liquid in it, ie: vivi nova tank, dct tank a tank on a rebuildable.
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A tank is a catch all term meaning a device that is a juice carrying device that holds an amount of liquid larger than the standard cartomizer. This could be anything from a 2.0ml capacity clearomizer to a 3.5 ml Vivi Nova Tank to a 8 ml cartotank. Technically speaking the tank pertains to the part of a device that acts as a juice reservoir for the main atomizer component.
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RBA (rebuildable atomizer) tanks
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I personally still don't like the fact that "tank" is sometimes used as a catch all term. There really is no right or wrong, all these names are made up anyway, but it seems to me tank should refer to cartotanks only.
The first tanks, as far as I know or can remember, were cartomizer based. They were home made custom pieces made, generally, out of syringe tubing. After tanks started getting made by manufacturers, some began to use the coil/wick setup instead of a regular coil/filler setup. You can obviously get CE2 style cartos and use them in a carto-tank, but if you consider the interface between the juice holding and juice vaporizing components, it's still a carto-tank, it uses cartos to function.
A vivi-nova or clearo doesn't use a carto, it uses a coil/wick head on a post. To me that seems like a very easy and logical distinction between the two terms. If it uses coil heads, it's a clearo. If it uses cartomizers, it's a tank. Vivi nova falls into clearos seeing as, functionally, it's basically identical to a clearo. The shape, materials, or size of the clearo doesn't stop it from being a clearo. It stops being a clearo, and becomes a tank when it uses replaceable cartos to vape juice, not coil heads.
Obviously this is just my opinion, and I am constantly harping on about this kind of thing because I think it's ridiculous when there are terms that mean 3 different things. We as a community should decide specifically what terms mean what. It's far less confusing for new people when they don't have to try and figure out what is being discussed.
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Any vaper that is actively trying new juices and frequently switching flavors should have at least one dripping atty sitting around. Doesn't have to be anything special, a generic $5 one will work. This will allow far easier flavor tasting than even clearos. When trying a new flavor you can just drip on top of the old flavor, and a few vapes later the old flavor is generally gone. Or you can blow out the atty, dry burn it, and rip. Or wash it in water, but then your kind of getting into clearo difficulty of changing flavors.
As much as I love cartotanks, I will never put a new juice in one. Tanks are reserved for all the big-boy juices that make it past the testing phase. Even though I have more tanks than cartos (and I've got boxes of cartos) it just isn't worth it to vape a bunch of juice you really aren't crazy about.
You could always take the juice back out, but I try to give away juice I don't like, and figure some people don't want a bottle of juice if some of it had been sitting in a cartotank for a few days, all the transferring of juice seems to increase the chance of some sort of contamination. Maybe I'm just paranoid because of my brewing knowledge.
The first tanks, as far as I know or can remember, were cartomizer based. They were home made custom pieces made, generally, out of syringe tubing. After tanks started getting made by manufacturers, some began to use the coil/wick setup instead of a regular coil/filler setup. You can obviously get CE2 style cartos and use them in a carto-tank, but if you consider the interface between the juice holding and juice vaporizing components, it's still a carto-tank, it uses cartos to function.
A vivi-nova or clearo doesn't use a carto, it uses a coil/wick head on a post. To me that seems like a very easy and logical distinction between the two terms. If it uses coil heads, it's a clearo. If it uses cartomizers, it's a tank. Vivi nova falls into clearos seeing as, functionally, it's basically identical to a clearo. The shape, materials, or size of the clearo doesn't stop it from being a clearo. It stops being a clearo, and becomes a tank when it uses replaceable cartos to vape juice, not coil heads.
Obviously this is just my opinion, and I am constantly harping on about this kind of thing because I think it's ridiculous when there are terms that mean 3 different things. We as a community should decide specifically what terms mean what. It's far less confusing for new people when they don't have to try and figure out what is being discussed.
Back on topic:
Any vaper that is actively trying new juices and frequently switching flavors should have at least one dripping atty sitting around. Doesn't have to be anything special, a generic $5 one will work. This will allow far easier flavor tasting than even clearos. When trying a new flavor you can just drip on top of the old flavor, and a few vapes later the old flavor is generally gone. Or you can blow out the atty, dry burn it, and rip. Or wash it in water, but then your kind of getting into clearo difficulty of changing flavors.
As much as I love cartotanks, I will never put a new juice in one. Tanks are reserved for all the big-boy juices that make it past the testing phase. Even though I have more tanks than cartos (and I've got boxes of cartos) it just isn't worth it to vape a bunch of juice you really aren't crazy about.
You could always take the juice back out, but I try to give away juice I don't like, and figure some people don't want a bottle of juice if some of it had been sitting in a cartotank for a few days, all the transferring of juice seems to increase the chance of some sort of contamination. Maybe I'm just paranoid because of my brewing knowledge.
I completely agree with your comments and opinion. I spend a lot of time in the Tanks subforum, and I am always frustrated seeing the discussion of Vivi Nova's and Kanger T3's in that section. They belong in the Clearomizer section, because they have more to do with clearos than they do as a tank.
But what can ya do?
Cleaning cartos, whether carto tanks or cartomizers is a pain. The tank part is not the issue. It is no different than the "tank" of a clearo. Unless you want to have an arsenal of different cartos waiting for different flavors (and then later labeled and waiting to be refilled with that juice when you go back to it) you will spend a lot of time cleaning. I personally love my carto tank but I have been vaping the same flavor for months. Recently I thought I might like to vape some of those juices I bought when I was experimenting cuz some of them were really good. So I was asking myself the same question. I love my carto tank but alas. When I was experimenting I was using cartomizers and labeling them all and having 20 or so in rotation. Not sure I want to go back to that. I don't like my clearo cuz it is top coil and I mostly use a box mod so I'd have to get a bottom coil. Never really got into clearos but may have to. Those are my jumbled thoughts.
But what can ya do?
Release unrestrained rage upon the offending parties, that might get things moving along! Or a "We don't take kindly to your kind 'round herr!" meme picture.
Just joking. Spread the idea that clearos and tanks should be separate terms describing separate devices. That's really all that could be done. Sometimes I feel bad about rambling on in threads as I feel a little preachy at times, but in actuality I will continually ramble on about a subject if it interests me until someone tells me to shut up. There's nobody to shut me up while constructing replies to threads, and this is what happens. I just wanted to point that out, as it wasn't my intention to attack anybody for their choice of vernacular!
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