thought I heard of using alcohol to clean carto

[Running Wolf]

My Irish Luck is hitting me. I thought I had heard about using alcohol to clean the cartos instead of boiling. I may have just confused it for cleaning something else while I was just a lurker. But I can't find any info.

So just wondering if you can flood the carto or soak it for a while in alcohol for a bit to clean out flavors and old juice. I would think the alcohol could evaporate quicker.

Just asking cause I know a lot of folks here know better than I would. No question is stupid if you learn something from it.

Thanks

 

[RudestBuddhist]

I've soaked cartomizers in cheap vodka to try to get the flavors out. It does work, but I've never fully cleaned them out to where they perform like new. I've been using cartos until they're not performing well, then I stick them in a jar. At the end of the week, I do a mass soak for a day or two, then blow them out and let them dry. It all depends on the juice that you're using.

 

[TomCatt]

I've used rubbing alcohol to clean atomizers; but I wouldn't recommend doing so with cartos. PGA or vodka would be the way to go for cartos if you want to try it.

 

[jamesthompson]

I just throw mine away and open another. Good cartomizers dont got to much and I find if I can get a decent amount of time out of mine they have served there purpose.

I never mix my flavors within cartomizers. I always take out a clean one for a new flavor and keep them in labeled drawers so I know what flavor goes with what cartomizer. But as I stated once they stop working the way I want them to I just toss them and open another. I seem to go through a 5 pack a month as a very heavy non stop vapor

 

[Running Wolf]

Coolies, at least got some idea now. I'm using an ethyl rubbing alcohol..... Think I would still boil them just to try to get any alcohol that is soaked in diluted enough so it doesn't make me go as blind as a moon-shining hillbilly. Would rather err on the side of caution.

May have confused the atty cleaning and carto cleaning tips I saw.

 

[DaveP]

If you use a high PG juice, you can easily get a week out of a carto. Why clean them when a box of 5 costs $8? I toss them and open another. I can get a month of vaping from a box of 5.

 

[Running Wolf]

Hehehe, part of it is being cheap and part of it is tryingt o save as much as I can, for as long as I can from going into a landfill..... or maybe I can start collecting to make one of those modern art things like the folks do out of used car parts and empty beer cans

 

[TomCatt]

Hehehe, part of it is being cheap and part of it is tryingt o save as much as I can, for as long as I can from going into a landfill..... or maybe I can start collecting to make one of those modern art things like the folks do out of used car parts and empty beer cans

Hey, me too!



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[jamesthompson]

Hehehe, part of it is being cheap and part of it is tryingt o save as much as I can, for as long as I can from going into a landfill..... or maybe I can start collecting to make one of those modern art things like the folks do out of used car parts and empty beer cans

Lol maybe I should offer to do a buyback program on used cartomizers then make are to sell in our store! LOL!

 

[Running Wolf]

OT to an extent but fits in with the recycling cartos a bit

You would think an apartment building/complex should have recycling (higher concentration of people) Mine doesn't. So I was throwing my steel and alum cans (only thing you actually get money for) in the truck of my car and taking them to a munnie collection area (cause the place was a walk across a field from my old job). Struck me that I could get a few bucks for them at the various scrap yards near me. Now if I can make a few bucks for a bottle of juice and do the tree hugging hippy green thing I am sold

James - you're probably too young to remember the glass soda bottles that had the deposits on them. You'd take them back to the store for some pocket change.... Coke & Pepsi (and the other companies) would take the bottles back, sterilize them, fill em back up and send them out for sale again.

 

[jamesthompson]

OT to an extent but fits in with the recycling cartos a bit

You would think an apartment building/complex should have recycling (higher concentration of people) Mine doesn't. So I was throwing my steel and alum cans (only thing you actually get money for) in the truck of my car and taking them to a munnie collection area (cause the place was a walk across a field from my old job). Struck me that I could get a few bucks for them at the various scrap yards near me. Now if I can make a few bucks for a bottle of juice and do the tree hugging hippy green thing I am sold

James - you're probably too young to remember the glass soda bottles that had the deposits on them. You'd take them back to the store for some pocket change.... Coke & Pepsi (and the other companies) would take the bottles back, sterilize them, fill em back up and send them out for sale again.

I have heard about those days. My mom used to tell me about taking all the bottles back. I never knew they got sterilized and then reused. That is a pretty cool form of recycling .

 

[NoMoreMondays]

My 2 cents regarding cleaning cartos: Get a 10ml syringe with luer lock (equine section at Rural King, TSC, etc.), a short section latex or silicone hose that will fit snug around the carto (it will fit over the luer lock, if it fits tight around the carto). Remove mouth piece from carto and shove the open end into the latex hose. Connect syringe to the other end. For the first cleaning use a bit of Dawn in luke warm water then rinse thoroughly with warm water using the syringe to pump the liquids into and out of the battery end of the carto. Next stop: Small shot glass of Everclear or any other Vodka. Use the syringe to fill the carto and leave sit for a minute or two, then pump liquid a few more times and rinse with clear water. Detach carto and use the taryn spin method to force out liquid, if you intent to use the carto right away, or place up side down on a paper towel to air dry.
From my own experience: Don't use Rum! It leaves the most awful aftertaste no matter how much you rinse.

 

[pmoraldo]

Don't clean cartos they are really cheap when they get bad or funky just toss them out and get a freshy

 

[Running Wolf]

The companies would reuse the bottles, it would cost them less than having to pay another company money to manufacture more bottles. My parents would tell me that it was the same way with the milk man coming with the milk, but that was before my time.

The milk man would come to your door. The soda bottles you take back to the market or to the beer store.

If there was a convenient way to do that for plastics I'm sure more people would recycle the plastic stuff they have. Give anyone a cash incentive to recycle and all of a sudden they will stop complaining about getting messy while doing it and go for it.....

Used to live in a house converted to apartments. Had a big leaf/yard sized garbage bag out back. Would crush the beer cans and put it in the bag. After a bit would take it to the recycling center and it would be enough for a case of beer. Since the stuff was going to be thrown away it's like getting free money.

 

[charady]

Pepsi has a glass bottle out now again actually And in Elementary school here, the classes get to visit the coke plant-we got to see them sterilize the old glass bottles and reuse them (and I don't consider myself old at all, 32 lol)

 

[bamsbbq]

Don't clean cartos they are really cheap when they get bad or funky just toss them out and get a freshy

cheap is in the eye of the beholder... not all can just up and order stuff, sometimes us broke folks have to make things last longer than most.

 

[juicejunky]

You could use PGA (Everclear and or high proof Vodka), but the price of the booze might be more that just using a new carto. Good thing about PGA/Vodka is you don't have to necessarily let it dry 100% since it won't poison you. I use it for atomizers.

 

[Running Wolf]

And can drink the vodka as well

I can just see trying to explain to the cops why I have a still and a "lab" with a nicotine liquid in it.