Ok I promised I would share this story here. I told this a while back in another part of the forum, so some may have seen a short version of it already. First off a little about me... I'm far from normal, well maybe it's more like unconventional and quirky, not to mention a tad bit clumsy. I'm always messing around with things and trying to find an easier way to do things. This normally gets me into some kind of mess. I clean up a lot of messes. Thankfully I have never seriously injured myself or anyone else, nor have I ever prefaced anything with "HEY ya'll watch this", though I probably should have. And most importantly, I talk a lot, or in the case write a lot so this is quite long.
For those not familiar with the "Taryn spin", it is used when refilling cartomizers. You put the drops in, then put the carto batt side down in one of those velvet battery bags you get and never use for your batteries, then spin it around really fast in a helicopter spin. This forces the
juice down into the batting so you can get more
juice in your cartos when refilling. But this story is about cleaning cartomizers, not refilling LOL
When I first started using cartomizers I ordered a bunch of sample packs of different flavors to try out. I had like 30 different flavors and maybe 60 total cartomizers. I would use a carto and try the flavor, then refill it a couple time with a flavor that mixed with it and after that if I hadn't managed to scorch the carto I would throw it in a baggie to be cleaned later. Being lazy as I am, the cleaning part took a while before I finally got around to it. When I looked into the dirty carto baggie, there were 40 cartos in there. Well remember I'm lazy and I knew that cleaning all those one by one was not something I was going to do and there was no way I was throwing them out. First thing I do when I start a carto is to remove the white end cap and silicone ring because I use a 801 soft tip over the mouth piece, so at least I didn't have to remove all those when it came time for cleaning. After some thought I got the brilliant idea to sit all 40 cartos on their battery ends on my desk then bundle them together with a rubber band. So far so good, that part worked like a charm. Next I set them in a strainer and used the spray hose from the kitchen sink to run hot water through them from the open end letting it drain out the battery end. Again so far so good. After that I put boiling water in a bowl and set the strainer down in the bowl and let them soak for a few minutes that way, then I dunked them up and down several times to work the boiling water through them. Everything was going great! We I turned the whole bundle upside down in the strainer and let them drain. Of course they don't really drain and I can't let them sit soaking wet that way. hmmmmm I'm not about to blow these out one at a time. First off even I don't have that much hot air and second, you got it, I'm lazy and that would be too much work. At this point I get my next bright idea which was to put a wad of paper towels in the bottom of a plastic bag like you get newspapers in. Then I dropped the whole bundle of cartomizers into the bag open end down. If the Taryn spin can get the juice in then a spin can get the water out. Ok let me ask this... do you know how much 40 cartomizers bundled together with a rubber band and soaked with water weighs? Neither do I but let me tell you it's not light. I wrap the end of the bag around my hand and proceed to do the Taryn spin. They were so heavy my arm hurt for two days after this LOL. Weeeee that worked really well, got out the water and unfortunately some juice that was still in the cartos. So I put them back in the strainer and pour boiling filter water through them for a final rinse. I should have know that things were going too good, nothing ever goes this easily for me. Again I let them sit and drain the excess water into the sink, then more paper towels, into the plastic bag, topped with the very heavy bundle of soppy wet cartomizers and the Taryn spin. All went really well until that last spin when the bottom of the bag split open and my bundle of 40 cartos went flying up in the air. My first thought was which kitchen window was about to get broken, however before that thought was complete the rubber band came off and the bundle broke apart in mid air. 40 very colorful, very clean cartos came raining down ALL over the kitchen. My 3 cats thought it was Christmas and Santa had brought them new toys. About the same time the bag was splitting open I must have screamed which brought hubby running to find me on the floor on my hands and knees frantically picking up cartos and desperately trying to keep the cats from knocking them around any further. 2 went under the stove and 1 under the fridge, but we managed to find the other 37. Moral of this story... always double bag
