Do you reuse your syringes?

[ericoahu]

I watched a guy's how-to video on DIY liquid making. He was insisting you should use a brand new syringe every time you sucked a different liquid from its container to put in your mix.

I can see how you'd want to be especially careful about not wanting to cross contaminate your flavors, so I can see at least wiping off the tip before it goes in another bottle, but who cares what happens or gets mixed on the inside of the syringe when its all going to get mixed together in your project anyway?

And even if you do insist on a different measuring device for each ingredient, why not just rinse them really well between projects and/or dedicate a syringe or pipette to a particular flavor or ingredient?

I realize that we're only talking about fifteen cents or so but I saw this guy use almost a buck's worth of measuring gear to make 10 ml of liquid. I think I figured out one recipe in a calculator as costing around $3 for one 30 ml bottle of juice. If I'm gonna burn a dollar's worth of "disposable" syringes that seems to cut deeply into the savings by increasing the cost by 33%.

Can't those things be re-used?

 

[Lyndagayle]

I reuse all of my equipment. I always put a bowl of hot clean water at my table and immediately rinse out my syringes, thermometer shake and dry on a clean towel. I use a separate syringe for each liquid (PG,VG, Nic and one for each flavor). I do the same with pipettes. It would cost a fortune to buy new syringes and pipettes for each mixing venture!

 

[Iffy]

Can't those things be re-used?

I've used the same 20ml, 5ml, 3ml and 1ml syringes for at least six months.

 

[zoiDman]

I watched a guy's how-to video on DIY liquid making. He was insisting you should use a brand new syringe every time you sucked a different liquid from its container to put in your mix.
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Can't those things be re-used?

I think I saw that Video.

At the Very end, in Very Fine Print at the Bottom, it said…

“This Video was Produced by the National Syringe Sales Counsel of America.”

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Although I'm not a Syringe fan, I've Reused some Syringes 15 or 20 Times over the last 2 years or so.

 

[MickeyRat]

I wonder if he'd say the same thing about a graduated cylinder. I have the same syringe I use for everything since I started vaping.

 

[hmlessalky]

I usually only use 1 or 2 when mixing. You just have to be smart. Start with your base liquid, add Nic liquid, add flavors (I do a quick rinse in vodka in between flavors sometimes). Using this method, the chances of anything that would really contaminate are cut to a minimum.

Sheesh, multiple syringes....what do they think, we are hundredaires?

Salky

 

[Leothwyn]

I replace syringes only after enough numbers have worn off to make them unusable. I have one syringe for flavors and a couple of different sizes for pg/vg/nic (I don't care if a drop of one of those gets in one of the others, it's all going to be mixed up later anyway, and it's not enough to make any difference in a recipe). Sometimes between flavors I'll stir the syringe tip in a jar of water, suck water in and out, shoot out any water left, and wipe the syringe.

 

[jackbox]

I just rinse them out with water and then pump them to air dry them inside. Lately, I have been using graduated cylinders and cheap disposable pipettes. The graduated cylinders I just wash out with water and let air dry.

 

[BakuPeg]

Wash them, they don't melt usually.

 

[Rule62]

I reuse my syringes over and over. I clean them out with hot water after using. I don't use new syringes with every mixing session; but I do use clean ones. Each ingredient, PG, VG, nic, and each flavor get a separate syringe.

 

[jim829]

I just reuse syringes as well. I rinse the hell out of them after i do a mint flavor though. I tend to go on a mixing spree and do 10+ bottles of various flavors at a time. In my experience any mint or menthol i have used just wants to stick with the syringe even after a few rinses with hot water. Alcohol has replaced my water bowl during mixing, just because of my mint issues. My brother-in-law was kind enough to leave a bottle of kamchatka vodka at our last summer bbq (affectionately known as comin-at-ya vodka in my neck of the woods). It does a fine job.

as a side note though, every syringe i have ever seen (plastic, i'm no stainless steel mixer) has always said to dispose after use. It has been said before that i(he) "participate(s) in class but do(es) not follow directions"... take from this what you will.

 

[GrannyM]

I reuse my syringes over and over. I clean them out with hot water after using. I don't use new syringes with every mixing session; but I do use clean ones. Each ingredient, PG, VG, nic, and each flavor get a separate syringe.

This is pretty much what I do as well, though I use graduated cylinders for much of my mixing. When the plunger in the syringe stops working well, I toss it & get out a new one.

 

[chr1s70ph]

I clean my syringes after every use (Nicbase and Aroma) under running water and fill them up with water a few times with water to clean the inside. I feel very save and I haven't got any issues that way.

 

[meli.]

I use Pi Pump Pipette Fillers and 5, 10, 25ml pipettes. Easy!

 

[bjannr]

Using new syringes every time would be like a new set of pans every time you cook. Just make sure what you're using is clean.

 

[donnah]

I rinse and reuse also.

 

[ericoahu]

Thanks for all the replies. That was a great sanity check. Common sense wins the day. Much appreciated.

I use Pi Pump Pipette Fillers and 5, 10, 25ml pipettes. Easy!

Besides "easy" what advantages and disadvantages do the pipettes you use offer? How much mixing do you do?

 

[oxygen thief]

I mix something everyday when an idea hits. I tried pipettes only once and didn't like them.

As for syringes I only reuse when giving flu shots at the clinic.

 

[ricklynchcore]

I'm not shooting my ejuice, therefore I reuse ad infinitium. Sometimes I clean them with hot water, sometimes I forget, etc..

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[the_vape_nerd]

im interested in that pipette pump system too