Bought nic from 3 vendors. Only one smells "flavorless"

[Blueser]

Your just 3 orders shy of the 1L club

Oh I'll be ok...Last time I got invited by some friends to join their "Big Shot" club, it was a lot of fun until it was my turn to be the Big Shot....Ouch!

 

[Kurt]

Okay guys. I used the test kit on all 3 nics. Here are the results:

MFS 100mg - Tested at 113.5mg
WL 100mg - Tested at 103.8mg
NN 100mg - Tested at 90.8mg - I assumed that we screwed up, so we re-tested @ 92.4mg



We were going to re-test the MFS, but it does smell stronger than the others as I previously mentioned, so I believe that the test is accurate.

If I mix the NN and MFS together, that would be 102.55mg. I might do this...

If you are using a kit, there is no way you can claim the precision to 0.1 mg/mL. You have at least a 10% uncertainty in the kit, so that 113.5 mg could anything from about 93 to 123 mg. The kit will tell you BIG differences from labeled nic level, not fine differences.

And smelling stronger does not mean it is higher in nic, especially if they are from different sources.

 

[we2rcool]

If you are using a kit, there is no way you can claim the precision to 0.1 mg/mL. You have at least a 10% uncertainty in the kit, so that 113.5 mg could anything from about 93 to 123 mg. The kit will tell you BIG differences from labeled nic level, not fine differences.

And smelling stronger does not mean it is higher in nic, especially if they are from different sources.

+1 agree

"smell" does not necessarily equate to "taste".

Also, the quality of the VG can have a distinct impact on taste (we once had to throw away around 5000mls of mixed juice because the USP VG seriously flattened/muted the flavors).

 

[emus]

+1 agree

"smell" does not necessarily equate to "taste".

Also, the quality of the VG can have a distinct impact on taste (we once had to throw away around 5000mls of mixed juice because the USP VG seriously flattened/muted the flavors).

"Unflavored" has a flavor. First nic tasting. Now VG tasting...and I though VG and PG were constants.

 

[MD_Boater]

If you are using a kit, there is no way you can claim the precision to 0.1 mg/mL. You have at least a 10% uncertainty in the kit, so that 113.5 mg could anything from about 93 to 123 mg. The kit will tell you BIG differences from labeled nic level, not fine differences.

And smelling stronger does not mean it is higher in nic, especially if they are from different sources.

I understand that these kits are a ball park test. The instructions say to multiply the amount of acid used by 16.226 and then divide by the number of ml of nic you started with to get the amount of nicotine in the test solution. I just wrote down what the calculator spit out and dropped the rest of the digits to the right of the first tenth. I was not trying to be that accurate.

 

[MD_Boater]

Sounds a lot easier than washing syringes. Were you using a 10ml cylinder? Is it graduated in .1ml increments? I'm going to have to try that. Sounds like your making some good stuff right off the bat. Congrats!

Cheers,
Steve

Sorry for the delay, Steve. I stopped paying attention to my own post.

I have a 5 ml cylinder that has .1 ml increments. The other night we were using 10 ml cylinders with .2 ml increments. The lines for each .2 ml are far enough apart that splitting the difference to get a .1 ml measure is fairly easy. Since our recipes are based in percentages, even if the cylinder is wrong, the proportions should be the same. Unless the graduations aren't spaced properly..

And I still had to clean 2 droppers and a couple of syringes. I just use them for transferring instead of measuring.

 

[Wingsfan0310]

Thanks MD, I appreciate that.

Cheers,
Steve