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09-07-2010, 07:16 PM
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#51 | | ☆ The So-Cal Vaper ☆ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern california
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| I'm going on a week with this carto. this morning i cleaned it out the way i know best (tutorial coming soon) real good by flushing with boiled water and it looks as new as the day i filled it. so u can bank on another week...hopefully | 
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09-07-2010, 08:10 PM
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#52 | | I Want YOU!... To Vape! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sunny Florida! U.S.A.
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Originally Posted by berger  How do you guys feel about the cartomizers if your trashing you atomizers. I'm brand new to this whole deal and got njoy RN4081 and it came with a bunch of cartomizers as well as an atomizer. If the cartomizers can be refilled several times then the atomizer seems redundant as they only cost a couple bucks a piece anyway. | I get two weeks or more decent use from one.
(Starting out to change out every two weeks if they need to or not. They are inexpensive enough .)
( ...I may just be vaping less this warmer season.) 
Want to try them with a Tornado ( eGo, Riva, Etc.) and see how well they do cartoz!
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09-07-2010, 08:34 PM
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#53 | | Home of Vaper Research Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by Rocketman berger,
you are refilling, right?
I start with a topped off cartomizer, and keep topping it off during the day. Probably oscillating between 50% full and 75% full just because I don't take the time to let it soak before I start vaping again. This goes on several times during the day.
I am on day 6 (stop whining Hacki ) on one carto but will change and start a new one tomorrow. Give em lots of air, not lots of volts, lol.
Rocky | I just can't make it very long! I gummed one up in three days, another one in two. I have had them go as long as 10 days, but at 50 cents a day, why bother?
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09-08-2010, 08:48 AM
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#54 | | spam again bacon ass Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Not China
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| 50 cents? where are you getting them from? | |
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09-08-2010, 09:17 AM
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#55 | | TO SERVE AND PROTECT :) Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Louisiana
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| berger,
I think he's referring to the 'daily' cost.
I try and keep total hardware cost (for the wife and I together) to about a dollar a day, plus a dollar a day for juice for each of us, and a dollar a day for extra stuff, stash, and spare parts. That makes it about $4 a day for two people, and that includes my 'hobby related' purchases . Keep track of your savings over buying cigarettes, it adds up.
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09-08-2010, 07:13 PM
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#56 | | Dismembered Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: USA
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| Folks always talk about 'blowing into the battery end'. When I overload/flood my Joyes (too much gurgling) that does nothing, no liquid to speak of comes out. Blowing into the cart end flushes a lot juice (usually darkened) right out and vapor production comes right back. | |
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09-08-2010, 09:16 PM
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#57 | | Home of Vaper Research Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Leftern Mass
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Originally Posted by berger 50 cents? where are you getting them from? | What Rocket said. I get them from $1.50 to $!.75 each, use them until they gum up, and then get a new one. I can use them further, they are still producing steam, but I like the "fresh vaping" feeling, so when the juice gums them up I put them in the 'connector' pile or toss them.
It works out to ~65 cents a day. If I can go 4 days or more, the cost goes down further.
I was trying to be 'cost conscious', but vaping a stale atty or one not putting out enough steam was driving me back towards cigs, so 65 cents a day is worth it.
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09-08-2010, 10:28 PM
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#58 | | Home of Vaper Research Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Leftern Mass
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| HEY!
I figured out why the cartomizers are 'gumming up' on me!
I tried sending a thin paper clip through the hole to clear it out. Usually it would wreck the atty. Tried cleaning with hot water, etc etc.
I was on the way to gumming up another one, after only two days (a full 48 hours) since it was drawing poorly. I could still see through the hole, so that wasn't it. I sucked out all the old juice and blew the rest through. Nope. Still bad.
Then I saw the two airholes. Opposite each other. I took a thin piece of wire and sent it through each of the holes. Eureka! It draws like new again!
Now, where did I put the one I washed out with hot water yesterday...
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09-08-2010, 10:44 PM
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#59 | | TO SERVE AND PROTECT :) Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Louisiana
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Originally Posted by JohnnyJames Blowing into the cart end flushes a lot juice (usually darkened) right out and vapor production comes right back. | Me too. One quick puff in the cart end and yuk juice out the bat end.
Save that juice that comes out.
You know "waste not, want not"
(we NEVER forget)
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09-09-2010, 04:51 AM
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#60 | | ☆ The So-Cal Vaper ☆ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern california
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| a day or two of juice wouldnt hurt ya. we've all smoked worse things, agreed? | |
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09-09-2010, 10:52 AM
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#61 | | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: West Texas/New Mexico
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| I try to walk that fine tightrope between richsummbitch and cheapcreep so , like JJ I air flush the cartos from the cart end and vape on.
Saving the used juice may be a bit much, Rocky. My suggestion is put the Jug of used motor oil out by the Yamamonument and let the garden gnome hang on to the used ejuice for bugspray. Ejuice make pretty poor engine lube. | |
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09-09-2010, 11:51 AM
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#62 | | TO SERVE AND PROTECT :) Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Louisiana
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Originally Posted by 40bikes My suggestion is put the Jug of used motor oil out by the Yamamonument and let the garden gnome hang on to the used ejuice for bugspray. Ejuice make pretty poor engine lube. | Funny you should mention the Yamaha
This old baby went well over 100,000 miles.
And one of these days (in the off topic section) I'll tell you how to recycle you own motor oil and reduce your carpet footprint.
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09-10-2010, 02:49 PM
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#63 | | spam again bacon ass Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Not China
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| Recycle your own oil? Come on now Rocketman, surely ye jest?
I can understand cartomizers and maybe a little fluid recovery but motor oil? | |
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09-10-2010, 03:09 PM
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#64 | | spam again bacon ass Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Not China
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| Back to the subject at hand though, I was considering alternate possibilites, perhaps brake parts cleaner and or electrical contact cleaner, spray cans off course. I thinking zero residue and real speed. Id bet the wadding would dissolve though. Might be a great way to remove it from a carto though. Just a thought. Anybody try this one already? | |
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09-10-2010, 05:33 PM
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#65 | | Home of Vaper Research Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Leftern Mass
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| (And rocket thinks I'm nutz when I mentioned vaping 60mG straight...)
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09-10-2010, 07:15 PM
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#66 | | ☆ The So-Cal Vaper ☆ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern california
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Originally Posted by Hachiroku (And rocket thinks I'm nutz when I mentioned vaping 60mG straight...) | closest thing to riding a lighting bolt huh? lol | |
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12-21-2010, 09:07 AM
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#67 | | Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: jaipur
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| Hi guys,
Nice point of discussion. Atomizer is the most important part of electronic cigarettes from where the liquid is heated to be converted into vapour which is inhaled by you into your lungs.
Cleaning of atomizer is very important. Thanks for sharing this informative topic here. | |
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#68 | | Why So Serious ? Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: West "by God" Virginia
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Originally Posted by healthecigar water also can clean it |  Why won't this work? BERGER!!!
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