It’s a sad day when I realize that my cartomizer is no longer up to doing the work that I require of it. You know what I mean; the throat hit is no longer there, the vapor is harsh and unenjoyable, and that wonderful new cartomizer enjoyment is all but gone. This happens to me about once a week (I wish there were a way of cleaning a cartomizer to keep it longer). I know some people who change cartomizers once a day, and I generally make it 10 days on one of mine, but the last days are just an exercise in futility. It feels like a sappy movie “Come on you can make it!, live damn it, live!”
But it all has to come to an end for a cartomizer, and that day was today for me, 6 days after we met I had to say goodbye to the little fella, and as usual I felt kind of sad about it. I use the E-Go cartomizers so there is a bit of a ritual to preparing a new one, so I thought that I would show you what it is that I do.
First thing is to say goodbye to the little fella, but it’s not time for the funeral yet.
Second thing is to get all of the components together that I need to make this quick and easy. Tweezers are an important part of the process, Juice is also important, along with the flex tip needle that we sell. Most important of all would be the cartomizer to be.
The new cartomizer process is to open the cartomizer package, pop off the rubber tip at the mouth end. Using the tweezers pull out the mouth piece and set it aside.
Again using the tweezers pull out the air diverter and toss it.
One more time with the tweezers I put a hole into the top of the juice reservoir and ream out the hole to its full size.
Keep the rubber stopper attached to the battery end to keep the liquid in as you are filling. Use the the flex tip syringe to fill the cartomizer from the mouth end through the hole in the liquid reservoir that just got made, go slow on this step to keep from having an overflow situation. I wait until the juice is visible from the bottom of the cartomizer since I have a fairly unlimited supply available to me. (it’s a great perk to working here at JCE!)
When the cartomizer is filled, place the mouth piece back in, get a tissue and pull the stopper form the bottom. Now place the battery end of the cartomizer into the tissue and give a few puffs of air into the mouth piece and blow out the excess liquid, don’t go crazy here, just enough to get rid of the excess.
Now add the battery and enjoy, or you just found out that your cartomizer was a dud. If it turns out to be a dud, try blowing some more juice out of it, change the battery and try again. If it is a dud then go revive the old one, curse the new one, relax for a couple of minutes and start all over again.
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I use a 510 clearomizer and they are a lot easier to clean, my last 1 I had to stop using after almost 2 month because the heating element finally went kaput and broke circuit. But they are a lot easier to clean and keep fresh. The main this with cleaning a Clearomizer is that as you are taking it apart or putting it back together is that you don’t crack the plastic tube that forms the reservoir. once you have it apart it is best to give it a bath overnight in some pure grain alcohol, I use 195 proof everclear. after soaking overnight let it dry off, should only take a few minutes because everclear evaporates very quickly. Now put it back together making sure the silicon rubber stopper that holds your smoke juice in is fully seated otherwise you will end up with a mess when you go to fill it. Fill it up with your smoke juice of choice and there ya go, tastes just as fresh as a new clearomizer. For best results do that every 2-3 days and you will be enjoying the full taste of your juices, and prolonging the life of your clearomizer till the heating element finally gives out.