sapphire Bud cartomizer turned atty

As my last blog post said one of my sapphire bud cartomizers from gotvapes didnt wick well. I decided to take it apart and found it is basically at a 510-t atty with a permanent tank. I pulled the plate an spike off and found my wick was burnt. This happened in about 10 draws.

It wasn't doing me any good as a carto so I decided to make a cheap atty out of it. I could not find a good tube to go over the atty that would also hold a 510 drip tip so I just dremeled the air tube part out of the tank tube and cut it down to size. I made it pretty short so I would still get a good throat hit from the 2.4 ohm coil.

works pretty well for a $3 atty.

Sapphire BUD cartomizer from Gotvapes.com

To be perfectly honest I didn't have a lot of faith in this carto. I think someone has coined the term "failomizer". This is attributed to the ce2s, the g4s, etc.

I was pleasantly surprised on this one though.

I didn't get the filler tip with my order that is supposed to fit on top of a juice bottle to make it super easy to fill the carto. I instead has to use a syringe. This is always a pain in the butt because the needle doesn't go far enough into the bottle to get the juice from a half full bottle. Anyway besides that this is easy to fill. You pop off the silicone plug, and fill. That's it.

SO I am all filled up, I put this on my reo grand running an 18650 aw imr battery. The first 10 drags were great. I was giving about 5 seconds between draws and it was keeping up until... the draw got very tight and I got the dreaded dry atty taste.

I spoke with some guys at gotvapes to make sure I didn't miss anything, and they asked me to try the second one.

I fill the second one, and let it sit for more than an hour just in case. I put it on my reo grand and start puffing away. I got 25 draws on this thing, every draw the same until I had to take a break. I probably shouldn't have been testing this thing at 24mg. It works well. The vapor is good. Not awesome, but good. The TH is good, but I don't like a real big TH. It is a cold vape. This is nice sometimes, but other times I need a warmer vape. Flavor is not bad for a carto. It does not even come close to dripping, but you can taste the juice.

So I am looking at both of these cartos. The second one I tried has a few pieces of wick coming out of the ego-t style spike in the reservoir. The first one, the one that doesn't wick well, doesn't have any wick sticking out.

While this carto is definitely a step in the right direction, I am 1 for 2 on them. They are sending me a new one when their big shipment comes in.

But, buyer beware as always.

I did do a video review also on youtube. It was late and I was tired, but all the info is there.

E-liquid Recipe - Almond Joy

All flavors are perfumers apprentice

chocolate 33%
coconut 33%
bavarian cream 17%
toasted almond 17%







It is very good mixed at 20%

Crystal Clear Vaping Unflavored Nic

I was recently looking for a new supplier for my unflavored nic needs. I had heard good things about CCV so I went on their site and got a 30ml bottle of their unflavored 100mg in PG. Price was decent around 16 bucks with free shipping.

First Impressions- The nic came in a medicine style bottle with clear tape over the lid and adhered to the printer paper label. When I took the tape off the label was virtually destroyed. It still shows 100mg and nicotine so it isn't a total wash for a label. A little sloppy on the packaging.

The liquid itself has a very slight odor. Not bad compared to a lot of stuff I have been getting lately. The color was very lightly tinted brown. Again not too bad, but from a company that says crystal clear in their name I was a little suprised.

I cut it down with some PG and VG to a 60/40 mix at 22mg. Tested the unflavored juice and it had a good nic TH and it was only slightly peppery.

I did a couple of my regular recipes and I dont get any peppery taste after steeping them for about 12 hours.

I am happy with the product, but wish the packaging and labeling were better. I will order from them again, and leave a comment about the packaging so I get a good label when I am storing it.

Atomizer run down

I recently got curious about the different types of atomizers out there, and what some of the differences between them may be. I tried a 510 low resistance which ohmed out at 1.6 ohms, a 901 low resistance which ohmed out at 1.7 ohms, and a 306 low resistance which ohmed out at 1.5 ohms. I tested all of these on a fresh AW IMR 18650 in a reo grand dripping my peach DIY mix of perfumers apprentice peach mixed at 15% in a 60pg/40vg 20mg.

510- the 510 is probably the most popular atty out at the moment. It is the threading of the ego and most rivas (there is a 901 riva). On the 510 the atomizer is visible, it has a bridge, and wicking under the bridge. The ceramic cup is surrounded by the same metal mesh that wraps the bridge. The 510 gives a good amount of flavor, good TH, and a good amount of vapor. It is what I am most used to so it is hard to review it by itself, but I can use my experience with it to compare the other attys. Flavor 7, Vapor 8, TH 7

901- This atty is somewhat different in construction than the 510.  It consists of an atomizer that is not visible, a bridge, and a metal ring that exposes the bridge, but covers the atomizer. I have not taken it apart yet to see the internals. There may be a wick in there? It is a different threading than the 510. The threading on the atomizer is female rather than male. I picked up an adapter to use it on my 510 threaded reo. I have to say that this 901 made me rethink the 15% flavor. I can easily get away with putting 8-10% flavoring in my juice on this atty. The flavor is amazing. The TH is not as strong as on the 510. Vapor production seems about the same or maybe a little less on the 901 compared to the 510. Flavor 10, vapor 7, TH 5

306- This atty has the same threading as the 510. The construction is very similar to the 510 atty other than the bridge is exposed. (take the tube off of a 510 and it looks like a 306). I dripped on this atty and used the blank cart that came with is because the atomizer requires a different kind of drip tip that slips over the top of it. This atty has a huge TH. There is a lot of heat and it was hard to keep it wet. The flavor was good on the 306. Vapor production was low for me just because I couldn't take big draws like I normally do.
Flavor 9, Vapor 5(for me), TH 10!!

Over all I really enjoyed the 901 and of course the 510 I have been using for quite some time. I think with the right juice the 306 would be good.

I wish I could have gotten all three attys at the same resistance so I could compare apples to apples. The 1.5 ohm may explain why I have a different experience comparing them to slightly higher ohm attys.

I think that if you are curious about these attys you should try them out for yourself. This is just my personal opinion.