When did the "carto tank" first make its appearance?

[Rocketpunk]

Paging Baditude.

When did the very first incarnation of what is now known as the "carto tank" make its first appearance in the vaping world? I mean BETA V1. The first.

Any info is much appreciated.

 

[Amzary]

Which carto? The liquid carto or cartomizers for dct tanks?

 

[Rocketpunk]

The idea of using tanks as reservoirs around punched cartos.

Never heard of a liquid carto. So, yes, DCT tanks.

 

[zapped]

I cant give you the exact date but I can tell you that they originated right here on these very forums a couple of years ago. Modders took a test tube and rubber grommets and made the first one.They punched their own holes in a cartomizer and the rest was history. Gotta love good old American ingenuity.

You may want to send Scubabatdan a pm and ask him as he's still VERY active in the modders forum where it originated.

Thats why I get a little bent out of shape when someone calls a clearo tank a tank.....Besides the obvious confusion it causes.....carto tanks have been around longer and are much more deserving of the name than a redesigned clearomizer from China IMO.

 

[Dougiestyle]

I think the first marketed incarnation was the MAP tank that used modified CE2 cartos. From there, I cannot recall the next model. I had an original MAP tank and I still have a MAP carto tank. Dunno what ever happened to the original MAP. There weren't o-rings on the inside. The cartos had to be pressed in. Real PITA.

*MAP is Most Angry Pirate

 

[zapped]

I think the first marketed incarnation was the MAP tank that used modified CE2 cartos. From there, I cannot recall the next model. I had an original MAP tank and I still have a MAP carto tank. Dunno what ever happened to the original MAP. There weren't o-rings on the inside. The cartos had to be pressed in. Real PITA.

*MAP is Most Angry Pirate

First dated post Ive seen for MAP tanks is December 2010

 

[Dougiestyle]

First dated post Ive seen for MAP tanks is December 2010

That seems about right. I started vaping in Feb 2011. Original MAP tanks were quite prized and hard to come by. They had their ups and downs like all e-cig equipment. I think the Chinese production and lower prices for such caused MAP to stop producing the originals. IIRC I bought mine from COV.

ETA: http://www.cloudsofvapor.com/store/188-tanks/104-map-tank-mods.html

 

[Rocketpunk]

I cant give you the exact date but I can tell you that they originated right here on these very forums a couple of years ago. Modders took a test tube and rubber grommets and made the first one.They punched their own holes in a cartomizer and the rest was history. Gotta love good old American ingenuity.

That is sheer 110% MacGuyver American ingenuity right there. Gad, would I love to sit down and hear their story. "Maan, I was eatin' some Cheetos, and..."

;-)

 

[Rocketpunk]

Can a dataophile or hardcore ECFer produce us a schematic of a GEN 1 V1 BETA 1 MAP tank?

And is this the Most Angry Pirate dude?

 

[zapped]

Scubabatdan just got back to me..... try this link.

Looks like the original creator was Gummybear with the Gummy Tank, November 2010.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/atomizer-mods/135579-disappointed-ce2-try-17.html#post2193652

Most Angry Pirate was next with the first commercially available tank called the MAP in December of 2010.

 

[zapped]

That is sheer 110% MacGuyver American ingenuity right there. Gad, would I love to sit down and hear their story. "Maan, I was eatin' some Cheetos, and..."

;-)

I know right? I was looking at small piezo electric micro pumps to deliver juice and then BAM! These come on the market and are sheer genius in their simplicity.

Also I was mistaken on the test tubes...it was actually plastic syringes.

 

[Baditude]

I'm not sure when it was first mass produced, but Vaporesence often claims to be the first original manufacturer of the cartotank, with the traditional end caps and o-rings.

Not long after, Smoktech made their entry into the market, and included one of their new dual coil cartomizers as part of a marketing program. The tank was called a DCT, or dual coil tank. The marketing program and combo obviously was a success, as a generic XL length cartotank is now synonomous with DCT, much like Bandaid is with adhesive bandage and Q-Tip is with cotton-tipped applicator sticks.