Dear tobacco companies, pls no sue Yours sincerely, -LU Disclaimer: I don't vape, but a lot of my friends and family do. I noticed that the disposable ones built up really quickly and were generating a lot of needless waste and so I decided to see if I could refurbish them. Everything in this video was learnt after a lot of trial and error. I'm not an electrician or engineer, and this is not professional advice. Try this at you own risk!

We NEED to be viciously supporting right to repair. But thanks for the upload. Anything that can help people take back control of the things they purchase is A-okay in my book

Always great to see ''non-recyclables'' being recycled.

I've been doing this too. Only i take a 3cc syringe with a long needle, fill the syringe, put my needle down through the hole on the mouthpiece, then add my juice. I pull it out to move it so that the sponge gets completely saturated with juice. I have taken it apart like you did just to see how it worked inside, and saw no reason to have to take it apart to refill it. Thank you for a great video

Thank you! Just refurbed an Airis Beast, albeit with a more crude charging method. For those saying, “just buy a proper vape bro,” I actually prefer the aesthetics and compact size of disposable vapes. Random hint: If you guys run into a USB-C charger with pink, gray, blue, and white wires; pink is B+ and gray is B-.

I did the same thing for IGET Thanos and Star series vapes.They have a charging circuit inbuilt so you dont even need to buy a charging circuit. You can just open the thing fill it and close it again and just put it on charge .I really liked how you explained the video to non engineering background ppl on internet. You were pretty accurate about the voltages and told about battery swelling good info.I am no advertiser or promoter for any of these brands and dont promote vaping over long term.

The crux of disposables are the coils. Once the cotton gets old unless you can replace it forget it.

I stopped using cigarettes and use vape either so i bought one disposable. Time came the pod starts blinking meaning its out of juice or battery low so i disassembled it and investigates what's inside. I noticed that the cotton wool is half wet by juice so i reversed it. I'm thinking of buying juice instead of buying a whole pod is less price. As an electronic technician, it's a thumbs up for me if you're gonna reuse it just replacing new cotton as often use is better

Thanks man, had to do mine from the top but this helped so much just to get me through the next week or so. Appreciate it!

Great to see another South African KZfaqr making a difference! Dankie boet!

Guys in Ukraine collect these elfbars, disassemble them, and use the batteries to power the drone drop systems. E.g. those things that drop grenades on russians from small commercial drones.

I’d actually say “ElfBar/LostMary” are the best to refill if you learn the easy opening process (plenty vids out). Best taste and easiest to do ! ✌️

Great video, I do this too but didn't realize there is a market for them on ebay....cheers.

This is by far one of the videos of all time

Very neat and I like the Ingenuity. I’d probably advise folks that get really invested into vaping to go ahead and get a rechargeable/refillable vape device if that’s affordable for them, rather than get the disposable pens long-term.

Thanks man, this is great! I appreciate the detail and also not showing how to not solder lol! Keep up the good work

Gonna try this with the lost mary i got that just ran out, i hate throwing then out constantly

I took a Crystal Bar vape tank, a CBD unit with the rechargeable battery and MacGyver'd them together. The vape tank on a Crystal is very easy to refill.

For those with 3d printers, there are some quite good designs around for helping with these kind of things :)

What if the coil has burned and thats why it tastes burned

I love the way you explain how to bring out the part of the light of the Vibe. I want to learn more on your class. Question what about the vibe you trying to inhale Bud couldn't work , what caused the problem or couldn't even work like you try to inhale the Vibe doesn't come out? please and thank.

ummm... I was trying to fix my vape pen I just got. Im new at all of this. I got halfway through your video and then try to use my vape before I start doing some vape surgery on a vape pen, and the thing just started working after Ive been cleaning at it and giving it a hot towel treatment. Thanks though!

Didnt even know disposable vapes were a thing. I got a "proper" one myself. 2 big, long lasting batteries, is rechargeable and the reservoir can be removed/exchanged, which makes changing flavours real easy. Also, you have a wide variety of skills apparently. Oh and do be careful while climbing, heights give me fear like little else, even when it is someone else being up high.

My geek bar stopped working and was able to fix it over and over t with factory reset. Made a video about it

I dislike vaping/smoking. But this is pretty cool to watch

Hi there, my first video of yours and thanks for easy to follow instructions...prob worth making on "MARYs" cus they seem to run the disposable vaping market right now especially here in UK.. But my question is ... IVG2400 is a great DV and the puff/taste/flavours are loads better than all the ones ive tried....but can these be dismantled cus the battery is like 1750mAh a feels weighty to the rest. I always feel guilty lobbing out a battery and lots of other decent materials.. so how much can u roughly get on these dead batterys in bulk........ And looking at the pods theres x4 and the rubber pops off showing the white cotton......so ive bought sum cheap E-Liquid to try.... Just gunna SLOWLY fill .. wait .. then hopefully BLAM. WDYT?

As a Vaper this enrages me. These things are disposable by design choice. On Ali one can get both BMS and USB C ports for 50 cents both. It is like selling a car without a tank cap, advertising its convenience of not having to go to the gas station. It doesn't save costs in any significant way, but ensures you'll buy a new one soon. There is no reason to support this. I bought my girlfriend a small vape for ~12 Euro from a reputable brand with an usb C port. And refillable and changeable tank pods. It is just as convenient if not more and lasts for years if you change the pod/coil every month or so. I as a formerly vape enthusiast, having huge mods with up to 4 18650 Batteries, wrapping my own coils, needing a dedicated charger for the cells, I can see that this hassle isn't for everyone. But come on. You can plug these smaller convenient things in at your phone charger. It doesn't get easier than that. By comparison for conventional cigarettes you have to leave your house and find a vending machine, for the disposable ones you might have to go even further.

How many cycles you can do this without burning the coils? Also would a battery charger be able to charge these tiny things?

Any ideas what to do when the wires snap from your coil to the battery on these?

Rather than discharging the lithium cell, just cover the leads in plastic tape like packaging tape and take it to your local recycling center. They'll be happy to properly dispose of it.

If you don't want the fireworks with the battery then keep the charge current between 0.2C and 1C. And please replace this cotton wick in the heating coil. You don't want to smoke coal :D

I usually refill and change the coils and cotton for my friends because the coils are cheep and the cottons are cheep too and it's really cheep to just refurbish them than buying a new one

Nice, thank you but how many times can you use and recharge ? Nice poem.

If my battery was dead on arrival, and i attempt to save the juice and try this method, does anyone know if the juice will start leaking out after i pull this apart?

does anyone know how long the coils on these things last? nice vid btw

Any chance you could do a "belo" vape?

I fee like if you're going to go to this length to preserve your vape then just buy a refillable and rechargeable pod kit instead. So much cheaper, so much safer and so much more variety in flavours.

What about the big one

I've never seen one that can't charge!

how do i change coil if its possible of course 😊😅

I stopped using these because of how wasteful they are. Thanks to our government making flavored pod based vapes illegal, these became the dominant standard. Leave it to the government making decisions for no reason that harm the environment. I switched back to a good ol box mod because it's not only better for the environment but it's so much cheaper. A coil is 3 bucks and lasts for 1-2 weeks and a bottle of juice can be 6-12 bucks depending on brand and size and may last upwards of a month. Compared to a disposable which, over here, tend to be 15-20 bucks and only last from 3 days to a week and a half depending on habits. Thanks for making this video though, it is a great way to reuse something.

Such a wildcard

I go to the vape stores and I go dumpster diving and I get hundreds of vapes and I my most favorite vapes are the North vapes the rechargeable black flat vapes and these are the ones that I rebuild and I take the top off the North vapes and instead of buying vape juice I go take the salt vape juice out of the other brands of vapes and I pull out the sponge cotton and I squeeze the sponge cotton and squeeze out the vape juice into a plastic spoon and then I carefully transfer the vape juice inside the North vapes and fill them and I put the top rubber seal back in and the cotton rectangular piece on top of the rubber seal and the mouth piece back on and I don’t spend any money on this and I got FREE vapes. I use the same flavor of vape juice in the North vape that is labeled on the North vapes and I got a lot of North vapes and each North vape has a separate flavor. Now the vapes that I tear down for the vape juice I take them vapes and I separate the batteries and I save them up and I take them to a battery store like batteries plus and they get recycled and the aluminum cases I put them into a large cardboard box and I save them to take in to the scrap metal recycling center when I take in my scrap metal that I get money from the aluminum by the pound. The plastic pieces and the wires and the coils I put in the recycling bin along with my recycling that goes out for recycling.

Can i Refil it with whater instead?

What would happen if i soldered a regular AA battery, given that i managed to create the pressure for the sensor to activate?

KEY is to use a similar flavor or it’ll taste like sht ! …ohh and MOST disposables have “ice”/menthol hint to the flavor… sooo match em’ up decently and yes, you can successfully refill disposables !

Can i refil it With water instead?

Why not just use a nic salt device that is actually designed for refilling?...

guys there are people literally dying of lithium poisoning from crack wiring their vapes. this is not safe, please just go out and buy another one ive personally lost two friends from this.

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Nahhh really they are called disposables cuz they are disposable never been said that they can’t be used again or “recycled”

Likes for the algorithm, SUBS FOR THE BALD ONE.

I've tried this a few times, twice with lost Mary's and once with a cheapo. I make my own juice and have for about 15 years. Out of the three only one would barely hit. I came to the conclusion that these use juices with different or special grade carriers with significantly lower vape temps. Another thing is how can they get some of these juices so sweet? If i try anything 1/3 the sweetness my coils are trash after a few ml of juice. As i mentioned, i mix my own juice and it's good enough for me. Premium is premium and i don't feel its worth it. I haven't bought premade juice in a few years, but even the , these juices were nowhere near what the dispos are kicking out. Anyone else in my camp, or is everyone having great results?

All that trouble... Just get a proper device, problem solved.

That hi hat or extremely tinny sounding snare is god awful. It makes my speaker sound broke.

Thought this was gonna be a quick slice the wire attack to phone charger and whoila done....that's easy mate...safe ?? Bout as safe as your method.

What a huge amount of fkin about for sake of a fiver..😮😮😮