Wintergreen & Clearomizer don't get along

[mrmaigo]

Got my wintergreen yesterday (nom nom nom) and put it directly into a clearo. The tube slowly had little white splotches growing on it which i thought might be wintergreen sticking to it. 24 hours later I pop the cone of my Inferno to find one side of the clearo had grown a bulge, the inside of the tube was totally white and the outside had splotches of shine and mat... and it was all squishy! I managed to squeeze all the juice out into my cleaning bowl and feel the air tube before it finally cracked. Now there's a white cloud floating around the bottom of my cleaning bowl.

So, uh... don't do this.

 

[markimar]

LOL sounds like a count down to a nuclear meltdown! Clearomizers I hear don't get along with a lot of juices. Many reports of leaks. Sounds like wintergreen can be added to the list!

 

[Mr. Tasty Vapor]

I've heard and seen nothing but bad about the Clearomizers. Maybe they work fine being tested with the crap they're calling e-liquid in China, but the reason Tasty Vapor exists was because, IMHO, that crap wasn't enough for me to continue vaping. We've had to test our liquid in a few types of bottles before we settled on HDPE plastic bottles, because the stuff with cinnamon will eat through cheap plastic.

Our liquids do unquestionably well in LDPE, HDPE and PET plastics. But the only way to make clearomizers, make them function and still be able to turn a profit, is to make them out of the most durable CHEAP products possible, which I'm sure includes the plastic they've used.

China is doing a phenomenal job at introducing a plethora of new products which I'm sure they've tested to a minimal degree that they merely "function", as opposed to "function well" for an extended period of time.

I wouldn't trust our liquids in clearomizers, not because there is a problem with our liquids, but because we are the dumping ground for China's cheap crap.

 

[jj2]

BD 3ml syringe time!!!

 

[markimar]

They only made them because they look cool. Is be ...... because it was a waste of precious TV juice!

 

[mcl5000]

I really don't understand what people are doing to these clearomizers. I've been using them, and nothing but them, basically since they came out and only with TV juice. They're the best cartomizers I've found, and I've used most of the others.

I've never had a single leak, never had the situation from the OP, never had them last less than 5 days (usually over a week), etc. I just don't get it. I don't clean them - I fill them with juice, vape until I feel the need to refill it, refill it, and keep going until it stops working as well.

It's mind boggling to me how many people have complaints about them.

 

[Zal42]

I really don't understand what people are doing to these clearomizers. I've been using them, and nothing but them, basically since they came out and only with TV juice. They're the best cartomizers I've found, and I've used most of the others.

I know what you mean... I don't use the clearomizers, and have no interest in them in part because of all the complaints I've read, but mostly because they don't solve a problem I'm having.

However, when I read about people who have attys or cartos that only last them a a couple of weeks or less (which I read a lot), I wonder -- I've yet to have one last less than a month. With most, I get 3-6 months out of them and I hit them heavy. Why is my experience so much different from theirs? I would suspect juice choices, but when people mention the juices they use, they're not so different from mine.

It's truly mysterious to me. I have just decided to consider myself unusually fortunate.

 

[markimar]

I think there's good batches and bad batches of cartos. There's just no QC in the factories!

 

[N2rock]

I destroyed my clearomizers filling them with Green Apple. The plastic literally fell apart in my hands as I was filling them. A little research on forums revealed that anything with mint, cinnamon, apple, citrus, or hazelnut will have an impact on the plastic.

Here's a video I stumbled across when it happened to me. This video is exactly what happened to mine