The other day I was at a friends house and he was showing me how to mix your own liquids. He was using a juice calculator to figure out all of the amounts. I asked him if his phone was dead how would he go about making it, at which he responded he wouldn't be able to. I am horrible at math as is he, but no we are on a mission to learn. Does anyone here figure their amounts the old fashioned way, pen and paper?
EJuice Calc By Hand
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I did it by hand, it's not hard. I have 60mg nic base, and I mixed 4mL to 6mL PG/VG, to make 10mL. If you divide 10 by 4, you get 2.5 - so it's 60 / 2.5 which gave my base 24mg strength. I made it strong so when I added flavoring it would be where I wanted it. I did a similar calculation adding 2.5mL flavoring, which would make my product around 19mg strength. Needless to say I wasn't as precise I thought I was w/ my measurements the 1st time around, and my end product is probably a few mg weaker now.
Nicotine strength is in mg/ml and marked with poor shorthand of mg.
So if you know what you want your final nicotine strength to be and the total volume, it's real straight forward to find the amount of nicotine solution. I double check what the calculator says in my head to make sure I didn't input the wrong numbers somewhere.
I also double check the total flavoring amount in my head too, but I estimate to see if it's close. Most recipes I make would require me to break out a pencil to get it exactly right.
I think it's important to know the math behind what you're doing even when you have tools to do the calculations. Luckily the math involved in juice mixing is simple. (Nothing more complicated than division.)
So if you know what you want your final nicotine strength to be and the total volume, it's real straight forward to find the amount of nicotine solution. I double check what the calculator says in my head to make sure I didn't input the wrong numbers somewhere.
I also double check the total flavoring amount in my head too, but I estimate to see if it's close. Most recipes I make would require me to break out a pencil to get it exactly right.
I think it's important to know the math behind what you're doing even when you have tools to do the calculations. Luckily the math involved in juice mixing is simple. (Nothing more complicated than division.)
I do the same thing as Hoosier. I use 100mg/ml so it makes doing the calculations in my head easy, but math is my strong suit (he said with modesty 
). By the way, if you haven't already, read Hoosier's blogs. There really is some great information in them. 
Cheers,
Steve
). By the way, if you haven't already, read Hoosier's blogs. There really is some great information in them. Cheers,
Steve
I do both as well. While I trust the calculator, it is only as good as the user and it is easy to enter the wrong amount somewhere. I like to double check before I start mixing to make sure I have entered things the way I want it. Better safe than sorry!
Why would you want to do it by hand when you could down load a free eJuice Me Up - Best eJuice Calculator that works great and keeps records for you.
I do use the ejuicemeup calculator but I guess I am old school and never had a calculator to go by in the old days. I know the calculator is accurate but it is just as likely to put the wrong number in somewhere by mistake. I feel better if I use both methods. Besides, it keeps an old brain working. LOL
The same reason I don't solely depend on GPS to be able to find my way.
Technology can fail, knowledge cannot.
I think it makes my life easier to know when the GPS is taking me the wrong way or if something is amiss with the calculator output.
Call it silly or old fashioned but that's the way I was raised. Gotta' learn to use a hand saw before you're allowed to use the power saw so you'll make much fewer mistakes with the power saw and save yourself plenty of wood and frustration. (And during an extended power outage you can mix new experiments to entertain yourself when you're not tending the fire....which with the current conditions here, that's a real possibility.)
What LD and Hoosier said. I couldn't agree more. I mean it's easy to input a wrong number so I always check it over in my head (measure twice, cut once). I'll add I keep notes as well so when the HD inevitably dies, I'll still have all my recipes.
Cheers,
Steve
PS When I grew up, no cable, internet, cell phones, or GPS - you had to use your knowledge and common sense to get by. Heck, I can even read a map
Cheers,
Steve
PS When I grew up, no cable, internet, cell phones, or GPS - you had to use your knowledge and common sense to get by. Heck, I can even read a map
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Yikes! That is another thought that hadn't occured to me Steve. I have made an excel spreadsheet with all the flavors I have tried and what percentages worked best for me. On a second page is recipes. If my HD dies I would be in BIG trouble! I think I need to take care of that matter this weekend.
Just one more reason I love this forum, always giving me ideas I hadn't thought about. Thanks!
Just one more reason I love this forum, always giving me ideas I hadn't thought about. Thanks!
After I found out my auto-backup had not been working for several months, I switched to DropBox. No more hard drive crashes OR backup failure worries anymore
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