Beta Carboline MAOIs - towards a more effective e-liquid

tceight;2594642 said:

Hi slopes.
I make all my guestimates on a transfer efficiency of 50%. I think this is 'highly conservative' (for safeties sake), as I am my own guinea pig and I believe the actual efficiency is less than this. I'm more interested in creating 'something that works' than optimizing the efficiency, as I don't have the tools, time, or training to engineer the process.
mentioned by kin, there is a titration method or 2 or three listed here on ECF, but there is no way they can work on the end product of this process for several reasons. The biggest one, is that the alkaloids are not in freebase form but in salts, so an acid titration would be meaningless. Even if the process ended as freebase alkaloids, this process is far too impure to give any kind of accuracy. The only way's I can think of to actually measure it are both expensive (waste a lot of tobacco) and dangerous (concentrating the nicotine).
other than safety and ensuring that I don't ever have too high a concentration, I don't care what the efficiency is, only it's effects. As mentioned in before, for whatever reason, the effects of the maoi's are very noticeable... so I know I am getting them. They do seem too strong in relation to the available nicotine, and have been experimenting with adding nic only juice trying to find the 'sweet spot', and have stumbled across some very satisfying combinations.
I say stumbled.... my 'experiments' can not even be called that, because my approach has been very alchemical and holistic, trying what seems a good idea at the time. I can write it up, but there is no 'definitive guide' so much as guidelines. I compare this to basement wine making due the number of factors involved, and the lack of lab equipment. You can still make good wine without knowing the alcohol, acid, tannins, sugar content, etc.
Scientific method experimentation may be the most accurate method, but ingenuity and 'throwing stuff til it sticks' can come up with viable solutions too. I will write up what I've been throwing, and maybe someone else will come up with a new ice wine.

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