Cleaning cartomizers

[panteraboy1988]

If im correct, prefilled cartomizers have the atomizer inside the cartrige. well it would be a shame to throw away an atomizer every time the cart runs out of juice.
ive seen people refill cartos and it dosent look difficult to do, but here's my question.
would i need to change the packing(cotton looking stuff) in a prefilled carto prior to filling it with my own ejuice? would any flavors cross over from the prefill? and what is the packing made of?
i ordered 1oz of 20mg menthol VG and the cartos im planning to refill had tobacco flavor in them.

 

[Anavrin]

i'm still a noob only been vaping five days now but all i've used is 510 cartos. I've just blown out some prefilled cartos that were nasty and boiled them out. Boil for 15 min, rinse, blow, boil for another 15 min, rinse, blow. Then i let them sit out over night standing upright on a paper towel.

As for pulling out the filling Doctor Vapor on vapetv.com has an instructional video showing you how to pull filler and use the carto for dripping.

 

[panteraboy1988]

ah nice im gonna try that. boiling it in tap water wont ruin the atty from all the mineral deposits?

 

[Col. Gaunt]

Most people have said that when they have tried to boil their cartos clean they wind up tasting like wet dog.

 

[Anavrin]

I just used tap water oh and make sure you pop of the little white cap before you boil them. I just put the caps in a glass of warm tap water and soak them for a while.

I haven't tasted anything off, or wet dog for that matter.

 

[SVdinnaMO]

I just drain either by blowing them out or letting it sit over night, then scortch them a bit to kill the old flavor. But don't scortch if you only have a few attys, you can and will eventually kill one

 

[TexasT]

I have about five main carto flavors and liquid flavors that I use. And ... I don't attempt to clean or boil the cartos. All I do is match the e-liquid flavor with whatever flavor was in the carto, re-fill using the condom method and enjoy vaping.

Usually I can re-use the carto three to ten times and then I just toss it when it doesn't taste right or gets plugged up.

Hope this helps.

Ron