Tornado Mega Cartomizer – Review
The Mega Tornado Cartomizer is my latest foray into the Mega line and after my experience with the Mega Tornado Atomisers I wasn’t to hopeful, although the other cartomizers I’ve tried had been better than their atomiser and cartridge counterparts, and these cartomizers were no different, a great improvement.
They do still have a leaking problem but no where near as bad as the atomizer. I purchased them from Totally Wicked e-Liquid. Like their 510 cartomizers they are only available pre-filled. This time the only option is tobacco flavour at 18mg strength, but you do get a choice of black and white.
On opening the package I found 2 Mega Tornado Cartomizers in clear plastic bags, one of which had already leaked quite a bit of brown liquid into its bag, which didn’t fill me with confidence. As it had already leaked after giving it a good cleaning with a tissue I stood it upright on a tissue expecting to see a flood of liquid. After an hour however this didn’t happen. A small amount did leak out but only enough to leave a small ring on the tissue.
In case you are wondering, the size of the mega tornado cartomizer is the same width as the tornado and slightly longer than an assembled atomiser and cartridge. Part of the length however is the outer sleeve which doubles as the cone you would normally use. Once attached to the battery the whole unit is about the same length as the standard tornado with atomiser and cartridge.
Tornado Mega Cartomizer Comparison
Tornado Mega Catomizer
So I screwed it on to a standard manual battery I took a few drags, and was greeted with plumes of vapour and a strong throat hit that had me coughing, mainly because I don’t normally vape anything over 12mg in strength and the 18mg that came pre-filled was a little to strong for me, which is also why it took me the best part of 2 days to vape it out.
One of the first things I noticed was that the Mega Tornado Cartomizer was a lot quieter than the mega atomizer and cartridge. It still crackled and fizzed but it didn’t have the same hiss that the cartridge produced as air was drawn through it.
I could also put the Tornado down on end and make a coffee without coming back to a stream of liquid running down the battery. There was slight leakage over time so still wouldn’t chance using them with automatic batteries, but the leakage was more akin to that produced by direct dripping.
Once I managed to empty the Mega Tornado Cartomizer I had to refill it, so headed over to youtube and watched a few videos on the subject. As with the atomiser it was recommended to stick to about 1.5ml of liquid.
The recommended method seemed to be to remove the cover in the mouthpiece followed by the inner liquid trap and then pierce the centre filling hole and fill with a syringe. I tried this but no matter how slowly I tried to fill the cartomizer liquid would simply flow straight out the hole in the battery end.
I then saw another method using a 5ml dropper bottle to force liquid in directly from the battery end, this time liquid dripped from the mouth piece. I then resorted to simple dripping a drip at a time on the hole in the battery end, after 10 or so drops once again liquid started dripping out the mouth piece.
After a while I figured my VG based liquids were to thick to soak straight into the wading and it was just running straight through instead of soaking in. So I hit on the idea of using a glass dropper to squeeze around 7 or 8 drops worth of liquid into the hole in the battery end and then lay the Mega Tornado Cartomizer on its side for a minute or so, and then repeat another 3 times. This method seemed to work allowing the liquid time to soak in.
Once refilled the cartomizer worked as expected the only problem was that the vanilla I used to fill the cartomizer was tainted by the residual flavour of the pre-filled tobacco, in the second cartomizer I used a stronger flavour in the form of Parma Violet which totally masked the tobacco flavour and produced plenty of vapour and the expected amount of throat hit.
Whilst a whole lot better than the Mega Atomisers I still probably wouldn’t use these on a regular basis unless they are sold unfilled. Whilst I don’t find the prefilled tobacco flavour unpleasant, I wouldn’t buy it out of choice and definitely not at 18mg strength, so trying to vape it out is a bit of a chore. Also as you can only really refill with 1.5ml of liquid and not the 2.5ml as advertised. While the whistle tip style is comfortable in the mouth I personally prefer to use the standard 510 cartomizer, which is also quicker to empty, holds around 1ml of e-liquid and doesn’t leak.
Product results as of Wednesday 22nd of February 2012
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Mega Tornado Cartomizer The Mega Tornado Catomiser holds over 2.5ml of E.Juice. The Cartomizer is an atomizer and pre filled cartridge all rolled into one. ... |
 £2.99 
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