What is a drip tip??

[vicflo]

You should really try out dripping though. Good way to try/test new juice without having to fill up or even waste a bunch filling up a cartomizer or tank. You dont even always need to rinse it all the time unless it was a really strong or dark flavor. Despite what others say all i ever do is rinse in hot water, blow out the excess water, dry burn and use it as normal.

Im a fan of the older atomizers though, the newer ones specifically built for dripping dont seem to work as well for me. Back in the earlier days the "cart" filler tip was a separate piece from the bottom atomizer bridge with mesh wick (on original joye 510s at least). Some of us didnt bother or thought cart mods were too time consuming (straw mods, pin fluffing, blue filler etc) therefore we went straight to dripping.

FWIW 1 of my 2 original joye 510 atomizers from back in 2009 still works like new. Just seem to have lost it somewhere around the house last month.

 

[The Ocelot]

You should really try out dripping though. Good way to try/test new juice without having to fill up or even waste a bunch filling up a cartomizer or tank. You dont even always need to rinse it all the time unless it was a really strong or dark flavor. Despite what others say all i ever do is rinse in hot water, blow out the excess water, dry burn and use it as normal.

Im a fan of the older atomizers though, the newer ones specifically built for dripping dont seem to work as well for me. Back in the earlier days the "cart" filler tip was a separate piece from the bottom atomizer bridge with mesh wick (on original joye 510s at least). Some of us didnt bother or thought cart mods were too time consuming (straw mods, pin fluffing, blue filler etc) therefore we went straight to dripping.

FWIW 1 of my 2 original joye 510 atomizers from back in 2009 still works like new. Just seem to have lost it somewhere around the house last month.

I found one of those not too long ago. I didn't even rinse it out (it was in a box, so it wasn't dusty or anything) just put in some drops and vaped away.

 

[InTheShade]

Can you describe to me what the purpose of the blue foam was please? I am assuming it was to hold the liquid without flooding the atty. So when you draw, the liquid would be pulled out of the foam and into the atty coil?

Is that right? How did they vape? (I am assuming awesomely until something else came along)

Did the blue foam come prepared like that from vendors? or was it a case of buying a block of it and cutting and shaping it and stuffing it into a top cap? What was it called? A cap, a cover, a carto, a foamy?

I think I want to try a blue foam atty cap...

 

[newplague]

Blue foam cartridges, pyramid tea bag and poly fill. I remember all of those not so fondly. I hated filling cartridges. I started dripping by pulling an empty cart off my atty in my first week of vaping. Oh and some trivia for y'all, Super T Manufacturing invented the drip tip (T-tip).

 

[The Ocelot]

Can you describe to me what the purpose of the blue foam was please? I am assuming it was to hold the liquid without flooding the atty. So when you draw, the liquid would be pulled out of the foam and into the atty coil?

Is that right? How did they vape? (I am assuming awesomely until something else came along)

Did the blue foam come prepared like that from vendors? or was it a case of buying a block of it and cutting and shaping it and stuffing it into a top cap? What was it called? A cap, a cover, a carto, a foamy?

I think I want to try a blue foam atty cap...

The e-cig came in 3 pieces

The "cartridge" in what we're referring to was just an empty tube. You stuffed it with foam, dripped liquid into the foam, and then stuck the tube into the atomizer. Without the tube and foam the atty is the same kind used for dripping. You can still get the foam from some vendors or you can buy it at a pet store. It's for aquarium filters.

I had no problems vaping with them and neither did my friend when I set her up with mine when she started. I just wanted something that held more juice.

ETA: I used mine on an eGo.

 

[RedhatPat]

Blue foam cartridges, pyramid tea bag and poly fill. I remember all of those not so fondly. I hated filling cartridges. I started dripping by pulling an empty cart off my atty in my first week of vaping. Oh and some trivia for y'all, Super T Manufacturing invented the drip tip (T-tip).

How were the ejuices back then? Just like today only less selection or more simplistic? Did juices evolve much over these years in your opinion? Question also goes out to vicflo and any other oldschoolers.

RHP

 

[Rocketpunk]

Vapers don't let vapers drip and drive. ;-)

EDIT: Dripping kept me in the vaping game. About two to three weeks into it, my very first Stardust clearo crapped out on me. I panicked and went to the only other person I knew who vaped at the time, and all he had to spare was a dripping atty, an eGo cone, and a drip tip. So for a solid five months I dripped, and I dripped, and I dripped. Those were my MBV butterscotch days. Anyway, I almost caused a car accident while dripping and driving, and I knew then and there I needed a new delivery device. Wound up learning how to use carto tanks from my local B&M, and haven't looked back since. I own quite a few clearos now, mostly iClears, but they're mostly used for testing new flavors or as back-ups if I run out of cartos in an emergency.

EDIT 2: For those of you trying out dripping, you should think about investing in this: Oops. Well, never mind. I was looking for Fuzion Vapor's Flavor Eraser. I can't find the url now. Hunh. That sucks. Anyway, you might want to look into a "flavor eraser" liquid. It helps to get rid of lingering flavors in dripping attys, like menthol, cinnamon, peanut butter, etc.

 

[RedhatPat]

Vapers don't let vapers drip and drive. ;-)

Unless they got a Reo, then it's alright

RHP

 

[RedhatPat]

Truth be told, whenever I'm riding dirty (easy now folks, I don't mean drugs -- more like leaving my drivers license at home) I actually stealth vape because I get paranoid thinking a cop may see my VVG as some kinda drug thing 'n pull me over Let's be real, unless your mod actually looks like an analog, it def draws attention.

And around here in Amish country, they go after everything, even seatbelts. I think I have personally funded the local cops softball league with all the petty fines I've paid out over the years. I guess that's the price ya pay when driving around in a bmw



RHP

 

[Dana A]

Some cartos are horizontal bottom coil (not most but some) I made dripping attys out of them all the time when I 1st started vaping. It worked well but I think those may all be the 808s that come with cig alike batteries.

You can't just pull the polyfil out of a cartomizer and turn it into an atomizer. A cartomizer will hold more drops than an atomizer because of the polyfil, the stuff they were talking about earlier were the oldschool atty/cartridge combos.

I just think of a drip tip like a mouthpiece nowadays. Shorter it is, the closer you are to the heating element so the warmer the vape may be. I like longer ones, gives me a cooler vape and less odds I get juice in my mouth.

Try a short or mini cartomizer, see how you like it. I always have some laying around. Same size as an atty, so holds less juice but doesn't take as long to prime, plus inexpensive. The cost of holding more juice is that you never get the taste out of ere if you swap juices, like going from a NET to a citrus flavor. Where as a atty, you just rinse it, blow it out, and you're good to go with little to no flavor mixing.

ETA: Dang, Baditude beat me to it again. Hey weren't ya supposed to take a break, like to sleep or something?

RHP

 

[RedhatPat]

It depends on which cartomizer. I've read some 808 users who remove the filler and use the carto to drip. Maybe it's just horizontal coils cartos? I'm not sure.

But, most cartos would be destroyed if you pulled out the filler. If you want to try it, it might be a good idea to ask around for people who do it and know which cartos it works with. Like I said, I've only heard of it from 808 users.

Some cartos are horizontal bottom coil (not most but some) I made dripping attys out of them all the time when I 1st started vaping. It worked well but I think those may all be the 808s that come with cig alike batteries.

I'll confess, I haven't heard much 'bout 808s since I was a noob shopping at v4l. Does anyone really still use em or believe they offer a better experience? I've seen more 901s but 510 is pretty much the industry standard at this point, me thinks. Maybe eGo-threading too. But I'll go along with the folks that say it's possible to do it with some 808s, I suppose the main question is why bother!



RHP

 

[newplague]

How were the ejuices back then? Just like today only less selection or more simplistic? Did juices evolve much over these years in your opinion? Question also goes out to vicflo and any other oldschoolers.

RHP

I wouldn't say the juices were simpler back in the day. There was definitely a lot less vendors with less flavors though. Vendors have really been pushing the envelope the past couple years with their flavor concoctions. My all day vape is two flavors mixed together that have been available for awhile. I'm so stuck on my mix that I don't like trying new juice. It all tastes weird.

 

[HeadInClouds]

I'll confess, I haven't heard much 'bout 808s since I was a noob shopping at v4l. Does anyone really still use em or believe they offer a better experience? I've seen more 901s but 510 is pretty much the industry standard at this point, me thinks. Maybe eGo-threading too. But I'll go along with the folks that say it's possible to do it with some 808s, I suppose the main question is why bother!
RHP

Well, because I have a Halo G6, which is an 808! I did pull the stuffing out of a cartomizer (stuffing was messed up anyway). It slid right out, no resistance, no snagging on the hardware. All the hardware is at the bottom, none runs up the side or into the stuffing.
So I guess I should just try this. Don't know why it makes me nervous!

 

[The Ocelot]

Well, because I have a Halo G6, which is an 808! I did pull the stuffing out of a cartomizer (stuffing was messed up anyway). It slid right out, no resistance, no snagging on the hardware. All the hardware is at the bottom, none runs up the side or into the stuffing.
So I guess I should just try this. Don't know why it makes me nervous!

If it's like the cartridges that come with cig-a-likes, where if you took the whole thing tube apart it would be as you said, heating element on the bottom, flavored filler on top and no coil running through the filter, I don't see why you would have a problem. If you did pull the coil away from the post I think the worst that would happen is it wouldn't fire.

 

[HeadInClouds]

Dripping into a Halo cartomizer with the stuffing removed did NOT work. I'll post details so nobody else is tempted to try! If you value your battery, "don't try this at home".

I removed the stuffing easily - it slid right out without disrupting the hardware at the bottom. I dripped 4 drops of fluid in, enough to cover the works at the bottom of the cartomizer. I waited to be sure it wouldn't leak out of the bottom, and all looked well. Placed a drip tip on top, and screwed it onto my Halo G6 manual. Unscrewed it to be sure it wasn't leaking, all still looked fine. Pressing the button snap-crackled a bit, so I knew all was operational. I took a small vape, got some vapor, then realized my fingers were wet. The few drops I'd put in all ran out of the bottom of the cartomizer onto the top of my battery. Bad!

I quickly unscrewed the battery, kept it upside-down and dried it off. I don't know if these are sealed or not; in any case, my battery is fine - WHEW! NOW I know why dripping atomizers exist.

So no, you can't drip with a stuffingless 808 cartomizer, at least not Halo's version.

 

[e-pipeman]

OK. 510. Ego cone. Drip tip. It works.

 

[ThetaReactor]

Back in the day we just had the three piece units. Battery, atomizer, and cartridge. The cartridges were horrible things packed with foam that didn't feed the atomizer very well. Some people replaced the stock foam with the blue stuff because it wicked better. Some just yanked out the foam altogether and dripped straight into the atty. They would put one of the empty cartridges back on to act as a mouthpiece, but the hole in those is far too small to drip through, so you had to remove it every few hits to drip. Someone (Super-T) had the bright idea to make a tip that would fit onto the atty but have a large enough hole to drip straight through. Drip tip.

A basic 510 atomizer can be had for around five bucks, and is a great way to try juices. The cheap rebuildable ones are even better (Smok Octopus, for instance), as they have big wicks inside and can hold a lot more juice at a time. Think 12+ drags rather than four or five. At home, I use rebuildable drippers almost exclusively. Of course, like most people, I still remove the tip to drip because the average drip tip holes are a bit snug to drip through without getting juice stuck to the sides and then in your mouth.

 

[e-pipeman]

Back in the day we just had the three piece units. Battery, atomizer, and cartridge. The cartridges were horrible things packed with foam that didn't feed the atomizer very well. Some people replaced the stock foam with the blue stuff because it wicked better. Some just yanked out the foam altogether and dripped straight into the atty. They would put one of the empty cartridges back on to act as a mouthpiece, but the hole in those is far too small to drip through, so you had to remove it every few hits to drip. Someone (Super-T) had the bright idea to make a tip that would fit onto the atty but have a large enough hole to drip straight through. Drip tip.

A basic 510 atomizer can be had for around five bucks, and is a great way to try juices. The cheap rebuildable ones are even better (Smok Octopus, for instance), as they have big wicks inside and can hold a lot more juice at a time. Think 12+ drags rather than four or five. At home, I use rebuildable drippers almost exclusively. Of course, like most people, I still remove the tip to drip because the average drip tip holes are a bit snug to drip through without getting juice stuck to the sides and then in your mouth.

I hear what you say - but a simple delrin drip tip (rather than the fancy new coloured things that are really just tank toppers), an ego cone and a 510 atty will really do everything you need for immediate flavour. If you want to vape for longer without holding a 10 ml bottle of juice in your hand all day (the "extra finger") then yes - some kind of tanky thing is needed. I like evods, x9s and x10s - but also protanks with the new bases. Ymmv.

 

[rasmith1959]

Evods have a built in drip tip. It can not be replaced.

Well EVOD is not just an atomizer there are also EVOD starter kits that have EVOD printed on the eGo style battery.

If I'm not mistaken they do have 510 threads, so that's what he will need, a 510 threaded dripping atomizer. I don't have any experience in dripping so I don't know what to recommend.



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[RedhatPat]

I'm probably the last person to speak on this on account that I didn't have an eGo style battery in my hands until my 9th or 10th month of vaping but the common theme I've noticed is the chargers SUCK! I mean, just the length of the cord alone, most don't even reach the ground from the wall outlet! Even the above posters evod picture illustrates that.

While I know there are workarounds, it still irritates me and the only thing more disconcerning than that is whenever I've heard of a catastrophic ego failure, it's always been during the charging stage. There are no manuals, chargers for egos are so spread out that I can't even get a definitive answer about color codes (I remember I turned to Ocey once about a strange Orange once when I put a vision into a joye charger, atleast I think it was Joye ).

I'm not saying eGo style bats don't have their place but not in my home, folks.

RHP