First try and it ROCKS!

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WooT! You guys are awesome. I've had half an Acid Earthiness cigar soaking in PG for almost a week, no heating. Couldn't stand it anymore and decided to try a bit of it today. I drew out 1ml with a Syringe Filter. Mixed it up 70/30 at 24mg with 10% extract. Drew it all back and forth into a syringe and then bottled and shook it real good. Filled a tank on the eRoll and braced myself. Well it was love at first vape! I really got lucky for first attempt. Can't wait to see what it does with some steep time, but if nothing changes I'm fine with it. Gonna rebuild and atty and do some serious dripping to see how it is on a real setup. I love w2v's Blondie and this has a very similar flavor. This is a lot cleaner looking juice, maybe because of the filter I used. It says .45um for pore size. I got the rest of the mix in a coffee filter now. I'll draw that up through the syringe filter when it's done.

 

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Hmmm, sorry about the upside down pic. Took it with iPad, it must flip it around for me so it looks right.

 

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Well I pulled out the rest of the extract. I got almost 20ml so it should last me a while at 10%. The filters work great but clog pretty quickly. I went through 3 of them. I need to find some cheaper pre-filter media before using these. These are left overs we used to use at work testing water. There are about 100 of them left so I need to make them last. Here is a pick of the extract and the juice with some light behind them. Hope it isn't upside down again.

 

[McVapor]

Hows the taste compare to a Acid Cigar? Comparison? Anything you would change in your extraction process to enhance the taste? I am curious about extraction for taste.

 

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Well, it tastes like they smell. Can't really compare to the taste of smoking one. I wasn't a cigar smoker. When I first got some Blondie juice from want2vape I was so impressed I went to cigar shop and bought a couple of the cigars. I smoked one on the way home. It was really tasty but the smoke is much different than the vape, same with cigs if you compare them side by side. I think the brain tricks us into thinking the vape is how we remember the smoke and that seems to work for me.

 

[Gummy Bare]

It's a coffee filter the preferred way to filter out the organic mass of the chopped up cigar? In kinda new to NET diy, I want to try it real bad. I vape nets all the time, and do some diy... just never net diy.

It's the process the same for doing it with pipe tobacco?

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[Kurt]

Coffee filters are used, but they take time. Another method is to decant the essence from the leaf as much as possible into a big syringe with a cotton ball in the bottom, and use the plunger to push it through the cotton. This is what I do.

 

[Gummy Bare]

Coffee filters are used, but they take time. Another method is to decant the essence from the leaf as much as possible into a big syringe with a cotton ball in the bottom, and use the plunger to push it through the cotton. This is what I do.

Interesting, thanks for the info. I wonder if you could mod a French coffee press to work good.

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I've started using a metal mesh screen first. I got it at Walmart, it's goes in the kitchen sink drain. I put it through this before the coffee filter. After the coffee filter I use the syringe filter. I'm gonna get some finer mesh screens and do away with the coffee filters, they absorb too much of the juice. I was looking at the Mr Coffee reusable filters or the reusable Kcup filters. If you're using VG instead of PG, the filtering gets really tedious.

 

[eikon]

If you use a filtering rig with no plastic, you can put it in a slow oven (150-175 degrees) the heat keeps the VG less viscous and it filters MUCH faster.

 

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I used VG on my first attempt because that was all I had at the time. The PG is working better for me so ill stick with it. If I had to use VG I'd probably thin it a bit first with distiller water and then heat that while filtering. I've noticed VG turn to foam while under a vacuum, must have a lower boiling point. You can see this yourself easily, fill a syringe about 25% with VG, cap the end and start pulling the plunger out to create vacuum. The bubbles appear and when you let the plunger down they are gone. I just found it interesting and also wondered if you could speed up the steeping in a high VG juice by doing this.

 

[dlipford370]

When doing this, does any noticeable percentage of nicotine get absorbed/dissolved into your pg solution from the tobacco? Or is it negligible so all nicotine is added from your concentrated solution?

Thanks.

 

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We tested some of my PG cigar extract at the local shop and it was <1mg/100ml.i just use it like a flavor around 10% and add nicotine to level I want.

 

[thebeingwithin]

has anyone tried to filter using something like a pur water pitcher? is that too much filtration?

 

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I doubt it would flow through the filter with just gravity. You'd either have to pressurize it above or pull a vacuum below the filter.