I am new to DIY and have been measuring with syringes. Would it be OK to convert ml to grams and just add ingredients on a digital scale?
Diy juice mixing by weight vs ml
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I have been doing 10ml for practice. I intend to make 30 ml once I have a few recipes to my liking.
I mix by weight but most of the time I mix 50 or more. You need to know the basic weight of your PG,VG, and flavorings. Different companies have different viscosities so it does matter. If you use the ejuicemeup site it will do weight once you put it the basic weights of the pg/vg.
The concept you need to determine the weight of the various liquids is "specific gravity". The specific gravity of water is 1.0. If something floats on water it's specific gravity is less than 1. If it sinks in water the specific gravity is greater than 1. If you google "specific gravity" plus nicotine, vegatable glyerin, etc. the values will turn up. Lots of businesses measure by weight.
So if vegatable glycerin has a specific gravity of 1.2 it weights 1.2 times the weight of water per ml, etc.
I mix 100 ml batches, 2 week supply. VG and PG are measured with a 50 ml erlanmeyer flask. Nic and flavor with syringes, a 15 minute job.
First time I saw someone actually provide a good reason for mixing by weight. Now I can see how it can be beneficial with that kind of volume. I was trying to figure out who the hell would want to be weighing drops??
First time I saw someone actually provide a good reason for mixing by weight. Now I can see how it can be beneficial with that kind of volume. I was trying to figure out who the hell would want to be weighing drops??
Ya, no there not drops, I order some flavors in 120 ml bottles and break
them down to 30 ml bottles to mix .............
I see so many say you should use a scale to mix and all I could think of was how you weigh an ML or less?
Like I said, you just weigh it. I must be Missing Something?
My Scale can resolved down to +/- .01 grams. And an ml of Nicotine Base or VG or PG or Flavoring weigh about 1 gram.
So I can weigh down to (about) +/- .01 ml's.
Maybe? But I don't hold the same view as sparkky1 on this.
Because No Matter what size batch I make, I have Less Things to wash when I use a Scale.
I can't see a scale in my future that is for sure and wash a cylinder and syringe is no bid deal at least in my opinion.
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