Drops per ML

[mux]

Does anyone roughly know how many drops it takes to get 1ml of juice from a 1oz bottle as well as a 4oz bottle of TV liquid? I know TV's 1oz bottle drip top is different than the 4oz bottle, so was just kind of curious for my own calculations.

Thanks in advanced!

 

[Danyulc]

I don't have any experience with Tasty Vapor bottles, but the amount of drops it takes to form 1ml is only partially dependent on bottle type.

The surface tension of the liquid inside also comes into play. So the TV bottles might all be 20 drops per 1ml, however, water is generally the liquid used to determine that.

So for the juices themselves it could be slightly more or less. The only way to be certain is to drop them into a 1ml syringe or container and count.

If you don't need exact measurements though assuming 20 drops per 1ml should suffice.

Sorry can't give more exact info. It's hard without any TV bottles yet, lol.

-Danyulc

 

[portguy]

Tested with a 20% VG juice : 1ml is 40 drops.
This is exactly the same on a regular and most common dropper bottle (like a Dekang one). 40 drops = 1 ml.

Only the glass vials with droppers (like the ones from TW) deliver 1 ml per 20 drops.

This is based on actually counting the drops on a syringe.

 

[Danyulc]

Interesting Portguy, because now that you mention it the one bottle I did test was a bottle of CVS Glycerine that I got to cut some other liquid with.

So that would make sense why I thought I was doing a 3/1 ratio of dbl flavor juice to VG and it was coming out just fine, lol. Cause it was actually 1.5/1 ratio.

Well thanks for taking the time to test what I was too lazy to do! Mainly I didn't want to squeeze out all the juice because my current rations are piddly at best!

I ended up testing the CVS bottle because the VG I put into a standard plastic dropper like you see everywhere is just really hard/slow to drop out. Then I noticed the CVS drop top was giving me nice perfect drops itself. So I tested it.

I had read somewhere on here as well I think that 20 drops was usually 1ml, but obviously that person didn't have the bottles we do!

I totally agree with your assessment though. I was wondering why even though I took a good 30 drops out of this one 6ml bottle it was still mostly full, lol.

-Danyulc

 

[mux]

Really good info portguy, thanks!

 

[portguy]

Yes. When i make some DYI juice i always get the same sized bottles for everything...or use a syringe or pipette. I cannot count how many youtube videos are dead wrong on this.
Someone takes a lot of time making a youtube video, making calcs with flavors and they really mess up the info. I see lots of videos where different bottles count the same in a recipe. A guy puts nic juice with a TW dropper and counts the drops....he then adds the no nic with a dekang bottle ...follows the recipe and puts the flavor with a dekang 5 ml bottle. Now he think's he has 10% flavor when in fact he has 5%...and he also has a wrong nic level...

An example of wrong measuring here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SDWJAyd6M4

Everything else is ok...but look at the end how 4 ml are half a 5ml bottle. Magic!

 

[Poeia]

For most mixes, I find a ruler works.

The bottle I'm mixing into is 1" tall. If I'm mixing 2 parts doubler and one part e-liquid, I put in 2/3" of doubler then fill it up with e-liquid.

It won't work for subtle combinations, but it's good for most of what I need.