CCell Palm Cartridge Vaporizer

The CCell Palm offers a whole new way for enjoying oils and distillates. So let's discuss CCell cartridges - what exactly they are, why they’re amazing, how to fill them with oil, and how to use them with the matching CCell Palm battery vaporizer.

First, a little about the system itself. What is an oil cartridge? An oil cartridge is also commonly called a 510 cartridge, which is a standard threading type, and the fact that they all use the same type is definitely a nice feature.

Essentially, this is a closed system to take your concentrate with you for on-the-go use. And it comes in the smallest size possible for convenience and discretion. The glass cartridge tanks come in multiple sizes with the three most popular being 0.3ml, 0.5ml, and 1ml.

CCell cartridges are actually refillable. While we wouldn’t say they’re infinitely refillable, you can absolutely use them several times over and still get great performance, cloud size and vapor flavor.

There are a variety of mouthpieces: two round types (wood and metal) and three standard types (white, black ceramic, and red Cedar).

They are designed to be filled with distillates but they can handle really thick oils as well. CCell cartridges utilize ceramic heating elements. According to CCell, they use food and medical grade materials in production and their tanks have no need for preheating to vaporize every bit of your oil. We can confirm from our own testing that the performance is amazing.

To use a cartridge in the CCell Palm, you just screw the magnetic adapter on to the bottom and then snap the cartridge into place directly in the vaporizer. The Palm works with any 510 cartridge as long as it has bottom airflow, which is the most common type we’ve seen by far. Now that you're familiar with the components, let’s go over how to use the CCell cartridge system.

CCell Cartridges are very easy to fill when you have the right tools and know-how. For this review, we used a CCell TH2 0.5ml oil cartridge with the red Cedar mouthpiece.

The easiest way to get your concentrate from its container over into the cartridge is with a glass syringe with a short blunt tip needle attached to it. You can use the longer, more traditional pointy syringes but you will end up with some concentrate getting stuck inside. Plus, they are sharp and much more dangerous than the blunt tip needles.

If your oil is particularly sticky or thick, or if it’s a bit cold, you’ll find it challenging to fill the cartridge. There's a natural phenomenon known as the temperature dependence of liquid viscosity. Basically, a liquid’s viscosity will decrease as its temperature increases. To put it another way, warming a liquid up makes it move more fluidly.

If your maple syrup is cold it won’t pour out of the bottle, you nuke it for a few seconds until it’s warm. It then flows right out and all over your waffles. We can use this same principle to help our sticky concentrate ooze over into the cartridge more easily.

Holding the oil in the palm of your closed hand for ten minutes or so can sometimes be enough warmth to get it moving. Alternatively, you can submerge it in a little hot water, as long as the container is sealed. We used a hair dryer on it for just a few seconds. You really just want to warm it up a little bit to help it flow better, so don’t go overkill here. We definitely do not, under any circumstances, recommend using your flamethrower to do this. Ever.

The cartridges are lightweight, so filling them can be a little tricky at first. Unscrew the mouthpiece and set it to the side. Attach the cartridge to something that’s heavier or support it standing upright so it doesn't fall over during the fill. We attached it to an old vape pen for stability.

Now place the needle tip down into the main body of the cartridge between the glass and metal centre post. Don’t fill the very top hole, although you wouldn’t be the first person to make this mistake. At this point apply a little pressure to the plunger on the syringe to start filling the cartridge.

Go slowly here, again if your oil is really thick or not warmed for a lower viscosity you may find that it gets stuck in the upper section of the tank. When this happened to us, we just applied a little heat with the hair dryer like mentioned before. That helped the oil slip right down the inside of the cartridge.

Fill it up to about 80% and then remove the needle tip. You can even get the last bit out of the tip if you just hold it with some pliers and warm it some, letting the remainder that’s in there flow out into the cartridge.

Carefully screw the mouthpiece back on securely, but don’t overdo it. The CCell cartridges have a leak-proof design and you don’t need to apply a lot of torque to the mouthpiece for it to seal correctly. Give it a little wipe down to clean off any oil that got on the outside.

Finally, screw on the magnetic adapter and you’re ready to use it with your CCell Palm. If you do decide to refill the tanks, just repeat this process. It will get a little messier each time you refill it, though.