Looking into DIY

[Kenndall]

I have been vaping for the past year, and while not as expensive as smoking, it can be quite pricey when you go through a 30 ml bottle of juice every week. I would like to find a starter kit that would include the nicotine, PG, VG, and a few flavors to get me started. I have been looking at one from onestopdiy and one from nudenicotine. Are there other kits available that would be better, or would I be better off if I just purchased everything separately? What brand of flavoring is the easiest to work with from a beginner standpoint?

 

[Boletus]

Kits are kind of expensive, and you may not use every thing in them. Starter kit for skinflints: clean used e-juice bottles, one each 10 ml and 1 ml syringe, nicotine base (if you will use it), PG and/or VG. Recommended: disposable gloves and eye protection. Optional: a few flavorings. Regarding flavors, fruits require little or no steeping, so they are probably easiest. For brands, The Flavor Apprentice (TFA), Inawera, and Hangsen are all popular enough here to have dedicated threads with thousands of posts each.

Recommended reading:
Safety:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/announcements-news/144783-warning-e-liquid-diy-safety.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/127760-diy-warning-please-read.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/277267-purity-pg-vg-peg-short-version.html

And dannyv45 and Hoosier's blogs are very helpful for what you should do and how to do it:
E-Cigarette Forum - dannyv45 - Blogs
E-Cigarette Forum - Hoosier - Blogs

I have also started a blog that explains some of the terminology and a few concepts:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blogs/boletus/6858-basic-chemistry-diy-beginners.html

 

[williebb123]

if you read enough here in the diy section you will soon come to the conclusion to jump in and get your feet wet , learning what brands of flavors to buy is about the same when you started vaping trying to find premixed juices along with the duds you always find a few gems so its not as bad as you might think

 

[readeuler]

I'd start following a few flavor supplier threads - TFA, Inawera, Hangsen, etc - to see what everyone else is mixing. Usually you'll find recipes or the "sage" of the thread and find tons of recipes to help you start out. This will help you choose starting flavors. I'd figure out which thread you like the best, and stick with their flavors for a while (I chose TFA, and it's worked out very well).

I wouldn't get any kits, just bottles, syringes, and needles for the tools. Danny's blogs are good for equipment, and Hoosier as well.

I used to spend ~$30 for 50ml, and that was the most juice I ever had on hand. Now it takes 20 minutes and nowhere near that cost to make 3x20ml batches; I could fill my house with juice if I wanted to It's quite the satisfying feeling.

 

[Muero]

Personally, i started with one stop diy starter kit. it was ok, but it only came with vg as a mixer, and like 8 flavor most of which were not good choices on my part. it was like 30 bucks. in retrospect it probably would have been a better idea to just save up like 70 bucks and just buy everything. personally i use rts vapes because they have verything in stock, wizard labs is good too, but i found at least in the past maybe different now, but lots of the flavors i wanted werent in stock because tons of people buy them out so quickly. so wherever you end up buying from probably doesn't matter too much, but i like going to a site where i can order bottle, syringes, nic, vg/pg, and flavors at one place.

 

[roosterado]

These can be used as stand alone flavorings.No diacetyl, and diketones that makes me feel more comfortable.
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