What's your favorite cartridge filler?

[Kendra]

I'm having problems with filling my cartridges. I've tried the stainless steel wool pad, poly fiber, and teabag filters. I'm not sure what works the best, but nothing works great. It seems my original cartridge fillers lasted longer than anything I'm using now. I don't mind topping off, but I wish that I could get them to taste as good as they do new for a longer amount of time. As it is, everything I've tried just tastes really old within a couple of days.

So, what's everyone's favorite?
Thanks.

 

[cosican]

I'm having problems with filling my cartridges. I've tried the stainless steel wool pad, poly fiber, and teabag filters. I'm not sure what works the best, but nothing works great. It seems my original cartridge fillers lasted longer than anything I'm using now. I don't mind topping off, but I wish that I could get them to taste as good as they do new for a longer amount of time. As it is, everything I've tried just tastes really old within a couple of days.

So, what's everyone's favorite?
Thanks.

Hey my old friend
hope all is well, other than your filler issues

I, too have used everything, the staimless steel wool, teabags, paper towels, napkins, and I go back to my blank carts, or reuse a few older ones. I find that after maybe 2 full days, they have had it, DONE, OVER
so, I just put in a new one. The blanks are cheap and seem to last the longest for me. I also, have gone past any cart and just vape directly on the atomizer, It provides great hits and I just need to drip more often
I do not think, at this point in the product development, that anything, is gonna be a perfect match. I just realize it is part of the program

 

[Sun Vaporer]

I used that poly batting for 6 months--but now I am a Tea bag user--What a great idea and it works--so thanks again my Friend Pete!!! I have not tried coffee filters as the tea bags seem to really be doing it---Sun

 

[cosican]

I used that poly batting for 6 months--but now I am a Tea bag user--What a great idea and it works--so thanks again my Friend Pete!!! I have not tried coffee filters as the tea bags seem to really be doing it---Sun

Sun Hi
How long does it last for you, until you replace the teabag?
Are you using a standard US made bag, or an english type bag?

Do you roll lose or very tight, with a modest hole in it?
I purchased empty english teabags and I agree they work well, however, they do not seem to last as long as an other type filler

 

[surbitonPete]

Hey sun ..really glad the teabag's are working for you....I don't know about you but the only thing I do find is that with whatever material I use... nothing ever works as well as it does when it's fresh and clean and filled for the first time.

 

[Ramblin]

The tea bag is kind of working. It just doesn't seem to wick like the original cart filler that would be almost dry in my M401. It holds liquid that ends up in the trash when I change them out.

 

[thatron]

The coffee filter seems to be the best and most affordable for my penstyle.

 

[CellWho]

Fist off, thank you very much for the ideas. It's made a tremendous difference. It is not often I come across something that has such an immediate positive impact, and this is one of them.

I agree with you 100% about these things working best when they are fresh. That's why I've been using your paper towel idea. I just don't feel bad about using a fresh one after refilling it once or twice It works great in both my 901 and 401, and the flavour seems crisper.

For those of you trying the paper towel, remember, less is more.

Hey sun ..really glad the teabag's are working for you....I don't know about you but the only thing I do find is that with whatever material I use... nothing ever works as well as it does when it's fresh and clean and filled for the first time.

 

[katink]

I find the teabag is becoming a good second for me (about as good as my fluffed-toys-filler).
But together on the first place are original ruyan-filters (which feel a bit greasy for arond 5 times re-using, with rinsing well inbetween); and re-using Janty-filters (which perform well for around 3 or 4 refills with rinsing inbetween).

 

[Kendra]

All of this is really helpful for me, too. I think I was expecting a longer life with the cartridge fillers-- whatever they were . . . not weeks, mind you, but maybe a week. So, I thought mine were going bad too soon (and too inconveniently for me!). But, if they only last a couple of days, maybe I'm having better luck than I thought.

 

[Skad]

I'm going to have to pick up some of those fish filters and try them. I've tried the teabagging thing (yes, I know...) and frankly it just didn't work for me.
The polyfill works ok, but still not as good as the original filler material.

 

[olderthandirt]

Teabags are working very well in both my 4075 and 501. Draw is easier, longer between top-offs and they wick much drier than original filler. Standard Liptons Tea, 1/2 lengthwise, fold that in half and then wrap almost loose around a ballpoint pen cartridge. Lasts 2 to 3 days but for the price and ease of assembly, well,

 

[firhill]

I use Barbie doll tampons.

 

[chief druid]

hahahaha .... i tried the teabag the round ones... work fantastic .... held loads of niquid and vaped virtually dry ...but there was a awfull taste of raw tea ... put it to one side and havent experimented since ....

 

[Relentless]

Just did this and it works pretty good...
Had a dead atty.. so I took it apart and found that there is plenty of the steel batting they use to wrap the bridge in to stuff a cart.
It seems to suck up the liquid without pooling quite well... Much better than the original material.
No burnt taste when it begins to dry.
More rigid so the atty bridge doesn't compact it too much such that it becomes dented.

 

[ZambucaLu]

I use plain white paper napkins just because they're most convenient for me....and a cart with that lasts a couple of days anyway. What I noticed though is I don't cut it even with the cart....I leave it a little longer as it tends to get pushed up a bit in there.

Lu

 

[ChainSmkr]

Fish tank stuff = Fluval

 

[syrus]

Hello newbee Syrus here. Has anyone tried a sponge to stuff carts? Not the household sponge but like a printer cartridge. I fill a lot of printer cartridges and sometimes really surprised how much ink they hold and how well they dispense ink on paper. I would try it myself but I don't have a e-cigarette yet and just gathering information before I purchase......... Syrus

 

[Harry Crazington]

Reuseable, inexpensive, hemp is strong...will never wear out.

>>> Hemp Reusable Tea Bags Small or Large

 

[BenJammin]

So far the coffee filters are working very well. Tried a tea bag but it just collapsed into a blob, maybe should use a whole bag. Started out rolling a narrow strip of coffee filter around a leather-working needle. Used too much filter. When I hit it with the juice it swelled up too tight to use. Tried a shorter strip and unfurled it inside the core. That worked better, but the performance didn't last. What finally did the trick for me was pleating a wider strip of filter into an accordion fold, inserting it into the core and snipping it off to length with very sharp scissors. The folds work against each other to keep the layers better separated, the liquid is free to move by capillary action. The vape tastes so much cleaner and I can go most of the day on one cart because it doesn't leak like the worn out polyfil. "Thanks Pete!" is now my Vaper's Prayer.

Oh, I forgot to mention: These experiments were applied to my RN4081.