Ethyl Maltol dillution

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in a glass bottle with PG/VG and a table spoon full of EM in 30 ML's it takes 15 seconds exactly,,, NO MORE THEN 15 seconds though, pull the bottle right there at 15 Sec's and your good to go it will be completely dissolved, give a shake a bit just to help it out a bit. It's how I do mine anyways :)
 

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in a glass bottle with PG/VG and a table spoon full of EM in 30 ML's it takes 15 seconds exactly,,, NO MORE THEN 15 seconds though, pull the bottle right there at 15 Sec's and your good to go it will be completely dissolved, give a shake a bit just to help it out a bit. It's how I do mine anyways :)

Thanks. What proportions of PG and VG are you using?
 

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I used PG - I thought my measurements were pretty accurate. 10mL of PG, and 1/4 teaspoon of EM. It will be going on 48 hours if when I get home today it still hasn't dissolved. If it hasn't, do I just throw the batch out?

I tried to give it a warm bath, too, which seemed to help, slightly, but there are significant crystals still.
 

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Ditto. I ended up letting the solids sink to the bottom, drawing off the liquid with a needle syringe, and using as is. Seems to work OK.

I used PG - I thought my measurements were pretty accurate. 10mL of PG, and 1/4 teaspoon of EM. It will be going on 48 hours if when I get home today it still hasn't dissolved. If it hasn't, do I just throw the batch out?

I tried to give it a warm bath, too, which seemed to help, slightly, but there are significant crystals still.
 

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I used PG - I thought my measurements were pretty accurate. 10mL of PG, and 1/4 teaspoon of EM. It will be going on 48 hours if when I get home today it still hasn't dissolved. If it hasn't, do I just throw the batch out?

I tried to give it a warm bath, too, which seemed to help, slightly, but there are significant crystals still.

I'm stumped. I've followed this procedure several times (making batches of straight EM and EM w/tobacco absolute, both for myself and with a friend), and it's never failed to produce a crystal-free liquid after a half hour or so.

One question does come to mind. When you say "warm", how warm do you mean? I should have been more specific about this... my idea of "warm" is the temperature of very hot coffee. Say, 175 degrees or so.
 

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I didn't let it get that hot, though I let it get quite warm. Today, if when I get home it's still not dissolved, I will try once more, with some very hot water from the microwave. If that doesn't work, then I will just extract what I have with the syringe and try it out.

Next time - if I don't buy EM solution - I'll try to ensure I am as accurate as I can with the EM Crystals. The problem is that the little scooper I have is tiny and 1/32 of a teaspoon. So I used 8 of those to equal 1/4 of a teaspoon; however, I'm not sure how accurate I was in filling the scooper...the tiny mounds may have risen higher than the scooper, meaning I may have used more EM than I should have.
 

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I didn't let it get that hot, though I let it get quite warm. Today, if when I get home it's still not dissolved, I will try once more, with some very hot water from the microwave. If that doesn't work, then I will just extract what I have with the syringe and try it out.

Next time - if I don't buy EM solution - I'll try to ensure I am as accurate as I can with the EM Crystals. The problem is that the little scooper I have is tiny and 1/32 of a teaspoon. So I used 8 of those to equal 1/4 of a teaspoon; however, I'm not sure how accurate I was in filling the scooper...the tiny mounds may have risen higher than the scooper, meaning I may have used more EM than I should have.
I have no idea what the saturation point (the point where PG will not accept more EM) might be, but if you put in too much that could be part of your problem. Yes, by all means... use hot water from the microwave.
 
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