Vapourlites cartomisers.

[ian-field]

The shop where I bought this sells fluid, but the cartomisers seem to quit producing vapour after about a week or so, I've peeled one open and the element isn't burned out - but it does seem to be clogged up with carbon/gum from scorched glycerol.

Now I know that caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) can shift carbon, and I have an ultrasonic cleaner - there's no effective way of rinsing out the cartomiser, so after the caustic treatment, I will have to keep refilling the ultrasonic cleaner until the water remains neutral ph - is there any ph testing kit readily available?

Thanks.

 

[wonner]

Try a pharmacy. You should be able to find some inexpensive pH strips that will be sufficient for that.

Good luck!

 

[Caridwen]

You can wash out cartomizers, but honestly the results aren't great.

If you can get them dry again before refilling, fine. Otherwise it's like vaping through soggy filling.

Some people boil them, try the reverse taryn spin to get them as dry as possible then refill.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=AXyxFdbKWZ1RxqGJYHfTdA&bvm=bv.57155469,d.cWc

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...o-tutorial-cleaning-boge-510-cartomizers.html

 

[ian-field]

You can wash out cartomizers, but honestly the results aren't great.

If you can get them dry again before refilling, fine. Otherwise it's like vaping through soggy filling.

Some people boil them, try the reverse taryn spin to get them as dry as possible then refill.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=AXyxFdbKWZ1RxqGJYHfTdA&bvm=bv.57155469,d.cWc

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...o-tutorial-cleaning-boge-510-cartomizers.html

What I was thinking of to dry them out is hooking up to the 3.3V rail of a PC PSU, its slightly less than the (alleged) 3.7V of the lithium battery. At one point I rigged up a 4x AA Ni-Mh to replace the Li battery - it didn't burn out the element, but they gummed up a *LOT* quicker.

 

[ian-field]

Try a pharmacy. You should be able to find some inexpensive pH strips that will be sufficient for that.

Good luck!

Here in the UK - allist verboten! Years ago you could pretty much re-stock a toy chemistry set at the pharmacy, a few even sold sulphuric acid for car batteries - I remember once buying most of the etchant chemicals for PCB making from a local pharmacy.

Sadly those days are long gone.

Obviously I can ask a few of them next time I'm passing through town, but in the end its probably an online search for something mail order.