Diluting too strong of liquids

[Cptfunpants]

I have a few flavors on my shelf that I really enjoy but since I've stepped my nic level down considerably I have a few 18-24MG liquids on my shelf I no longer vape but I enjoy the flavor. My vapes now are ranging from 0-8MG of nic. Is there a way to dilute the nic in them without catastrophically harming the flavor? I realize any dilution will harm the flavor and I'm willing to cope with that but I still want there to be some hint of flavor. It's better to have a good flavor that I can vape than an awesome flavor that I can't vape due to it's nic levels.

Thanks guy,

 

[Jazzmom]

Pat:
I had the same thing happen. Asked the question in the company's thread I bought the liquid from and they answered that to dilute the 24 mg to 18 mg (that is what I needed) I would have to:

Order 0MG and you wanted to make 24MG into 18MG you would add 1/4 of the 0MG to your 24MG juice.

So I ordered their 0 mg in the same flavor and diluted it as above.

 

[Cptfunpants]

Yeah I was considering doing that, but that costs more money . If I can't find an alternative here I'll have to join you in doing that I suppose lol. I did that with some of my banana fosters from MaddCattvapors and it worked pretty seamlessly.

 

[martinc]

Flavor will be lessened unless you use the method aforementioned

You could always try PG and go lil by lil

 

[Cptfunpants]

Are there any stores that sell either straight up PG or VG I could use for this? A hardware/hobby store for example?

 

[zengargoyle]

For future reference, see
Increasing nicotine on store juice , the same formula works for decreasing nicotine.

Vd = ( Vo * ( Sf - So ) ) / ( Sd - Sf )

Vo = 1 # use a volume of 1ml to get a ratio that you can multiply by whatever volume you actually have.
Sf = 18
So = 24
Sd = 0

Vd = (1*(18-24))/(0-18)
Vd = (1*(-6))/-18
Vd = -6/-18 = 6/18 = 1/3

You would want to add 1/3 as much 0mg/ml juice as you have 24mg/ml juice to bring it down to 18mg/ml.
Using 1/4 would get you 19.2mg/ml, using 1/3 gets you 18mg/ml

24 / (1+(1/4)) = 19.2
24 / (1+(1/3) = 18

If you use plain PG/VG you could gauge flavor strength of the reduced version by assuming your original had 1 unit of flavor per ml and then do this:

1 fu / (1+(1/3)) ml = 0.75 fu/ml

So, your reduced juice would have 75% of the original flavor. This probably breaks down to sucking bad if you reduce much with PG/VG instead of a 0mg/ml version of the original flavor.