DIY juice by weight

[Rymesis]

I tried mixing diy before by volume and didn't do so well.
So! I thought I would try asking advice and see what scale and what flavorings you guys would suggest to start.

I like most fruits, coffee, some sweets, a strawberry and banana or cream-sickle would be awesome.

No known vg/pg allergies
Though a lot of times I have a hard time tasting juices that aren't medium/strong(people looked at me funny when I tasted Hard Cocktails Devils cut which is a very strong cinnamon)

 

[WonderDude32]

I still mix by volume and use Capella's and TFA flavors. With what you've described as your preference, I would start my mix with a higher flavoring % like 8-10% and go up from there. If you're new to DIY, you may want to start with less and find a happy place through some trial and error. If you have any experience with mixing or adding flavoring to premade juice, 10% total flavor is not uncommon to get satisfied. This is to each person's taste but this advice is based on a solid year of mixing my own juice. Good luck

 

[Robino1]

Moved to DIY for hopefully more help

 

[Capt.shay]

Scale: 500g x 0 01g High Precision Digital Scale SF 400D2 Counting w USB Wall Adapter | eBay

AC/DC, no cut off, 500g capacity, .01g accuracy

Flavors: Look on line for recipies that you think you might like. Go to Bull City or Wizard or any of the others, spend thirty bucks or so to try some flavors. You are definitely going to want some Sweet Cream and Vanilla Custard to start out creaming the fruit flavors you will choose. Start with your recipe flavors and build from there.

Here is a link to something I read when I started to use weight. Botboy141 Guide to Mixing By Weight : DIY_eJuice . There is also a good thread here in this DIY sub topic.

 

[dannyv45]

This thread has a lot of info and recommendations on mixing by weight.

Mixing by Weight - Are You ?? | E-Cigarette Forum

 

[Gummy Bare]

Mixing by weight... Why didn't I think of that, lol. I'm interested in this. Thanks for the links.

What's your favorite thing(s) about mixing by weight opposed to volume?


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[sketchness]

Mixing by weight... Why didn't I think of that, lol. I'm interested in this. Thanks for the links.

What's your favorite thing(s) about mixing by weight opposed to volume?


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Mixing up a recipe is really quick. For the most part no washing or rinsing unless I spill something. I mix 8mg base in a 250 ml bottle with a yorker cap. Measure my flavors and top off with base. Done. Sometimes I need a pipette and a cup of water for rinsing on some flavors that don't have a dropper. But I don't have to buy syringes anymore. 5ml test batches are super quick no fussing with a syringe.

 

[93gc40]

I do it by weight for the simplicity of it. NO MEASURING. I just zero the scale between ingredients, pour in the amount, done.

 

[dannyv45]

Mixing by weight... Why didn't I think of that, lol. I'm interested in this. Thanks for the links.

What's your favorite thing(s) about mixing by weight opposed to volume?


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None, I mix by volume

But I do know both methods work very well.

 

[Capt.shay]

Mixing by weight... Why didn't I think of that, lol. I'm interested in this. Thanks for the links.

What's your favorite thing(s) about mixing by weight opposed to volume?


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One method is not inherently better than the other and an equal amount of accuracy can be achieved by either but I personally find weighing faster, easier and easier to be more accurate. Also, a lot less clean up. I find that an admiral trait.

 

[mhertz]

As allread been stated, absolutelly for sure, for the simplicity!

I must admit to being extremelly lazy and e.g. rewicking my coils about once a month(unflavored rocks, btw!) is allready a hard choire for me, lol!

I hated having different syringes around with different gauges, marked for the ingredient used, or else they would need to be washed out thouroghly between ingredients, but i'd still have to clean them because e.g. a little vg would always be left etc. Then i'd have to really squench my eyes to make sure the amount was right, and e.g. if using a needle, then the amount in the needle shouldn't be included etc. etc.

Having everything in nice squeese bottles or dropper-bottles, and then just simply place your end-bottle on the scale, and pour each ingedient directly from the ingredient-bottle into the end-bottle and just simply tare between ingedients, now how could anything be simpler, or more convenient than that!

No "dizzing's" to the volume-based-meassuring people around here, and which also are the vast majority I would guess, but for me and many others, then this is just simply a no-brainer...

(I'm a little ocd, and was getting headaches of sqenching my eyes so much to be sure that the amount was correct and that I haden't made a mistake on reading out those small freakin' meassuring bars on the syringe! Now, I can even mix at night with the lights off/dimmed, and just the light from the tv, as the scale features big led-backlit digits and each bottle has written on it with big letters what it's holding...)