Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Refilling Nicolite cartomizer cartridges

I have tried refilling my Nicolites E-cig cartomizers with some e-juice that I purchased from juicycigs.co.uk. I am not sure if this is advised or not but after watching a tutorial online I decided to give it a try. However this is my personal experience and not a set of instructions I think it is safe but I am no scientist or e-cig expert.

I purchased 3 10ml bottles of e-juice from jucy cigs which arrived the next day and I was ready to go.

The first thing that I did was remove the white cap from the end of the cartomizer, The website I found said use a nail of some pliers, as I was  in the kitchen I took the first item to hand that I thought would do the job which turned out to be a fork I just put one of the prongs in the hole and levered the cap out.

Removing cartomizer cap
When the cap was removed I washed out the inside of the cartomizer with hot water, blowed through it to get rid of the excess water then left overnight to dry out.

The next day after the cartomizer had dried I added about half a dozen drops of the e-juice into the cartomizer while rotating the cartomizer to let it soak into the filler material, I think I added too much or did it too quick as it started leaking from the bottom onto my finger, which is is a little concerning as it says on the bottle "toxic in contact with skin" I did wash my hands after and I am not dead yet so that's good.
Cartomizer filled with vanilla e-juice
After this I replaced the plastic cap and tried the cartomizer. It took a few puffs to get it going then it started producing a good amount of vapour. The taste of the vanilla was nice but probably a bit too subtle for my tastes. I am going to try with more flavours and give them a good try and I will review these later.

So far this seems to me like a good way to save a few Penny's and re-use my cartomizers, I don't know how long they will work for before the atomisers eventually die and I think in future if I am adding the same flavour e-juice I will skip the washing out step and go straight to the filling up part.

Update

So far my my experiance with refilling these has not been great, although i do gat some vapour its not up to the standard of the purchased cartomizers. I am going to try drying them for a longer period of time to ensure that the wading is not still damp and diluting the juice.

 I have removed the wadding in one cartriddge to try and dry it with a paper towel, this proves allmost impossibl to refit as if you do not get th heat sleeving on correctly you inhale a terrible burning taste. if any one knows th best way to refit these please let me know.

I have also ordered a ego-VVC so I can compere the e-juices against the caromizer flavours. Watch this space...

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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 August 2012 at 02:24

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  2. Unknown9 September 2012 at 08:09

    I'm using nicolite too. I recommend them.

    I've discovered (online and through my own experiments) that I get the longest use out of a cartomiser if I top it up little and often (not too full so it gets drippy, but not too empty so the wick starts to burn). Eventually, the wick gets clogged up and it needs cleaning (wrap in a cloth, boil for 10 minutes, dry completely and never use a damp cartomizer or dilute e-liquid with water) - but it's never as good as new.

    To minimise clogging, you can dilute with propyl glycol (cheap on eBay) to thin it out. (You can also use glycerin - it's also cheap, and gives more vapour, but also clogs up the cartomizer more quickly).

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  3. Unknown14 January 2013 at 10:54

    Hi i reticently moved from nicolites to a ok smokey kingo, i was doing the same thing as you and kept refiling my nicolites carts with eliquid but there was hardly any flavour, i loved the nicolites menthol flavour, and i found a menthol eliquid thats pretty much the same from vapetheape.com called menthol magic, the nicolites are great for a short time but id definitely recommend the kingo from ok smokey and to get the best out of your flavours, hope my comment was of some use from Jason

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  4. Brian6 February 2013 at 23:43

    After various experiments with refilling Nicolite cartomisers I found the best way is to put a few drops near the centre (plastic tube) of the cartridge. What threw me initially were various youtube videos saying you should put drops around the edges. This may work with some other brands, but if you take a Nicolite cartridge apart you will see there is different inner and outer wadding. Its clear the original nicotine is soaked in the inner, so that is what you should aim for. This makes for a much better vape. Hope this is of help.

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  5. Unknown26 February 2013 at 18:35

    can you use other brand Cartomizer on the nicolite batteries ?

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