Freezing 100mg nicotine base
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You are either showing your age, or you have remarkably good taste in music for a youngun. Now I'm going to have pan flutes in my head all day.
You are either showing your age, or you have remarkably good taste in music for a youngun. Now I'm going to have pan flutes in my head all day.
Yes, 56 and too much free time now. Can't let good information get "lost in space".
INDEFINITE!?
Wow, that's good to hear. Kurt, I've read a lot that you've written in the other threads about long-term storage, and this just confirms for me that it is OK to go ahead and store in quantity. Thank you so much for your sharing your experience in this area. And for the record, I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
A bit late to the party here, and as I'm sure most that have stored VG based nic in the freezer know but I thought I would point it out...
When you remove it from the freezer (at 0 degrees ferenheit) it is VERY thick, and needs to be warmed back up to room temp.
Probably master of the obvious stuff... LoL
When you remove it from the freezer (at 0 degrees ferenheit) it is VERY thick, and needs to be warmed back up to room temp.
Probably master of the obvious stuff... LoL
Master of the obvious is still a master, so always good to repost so others can learn to master as well! 
Storing in sealed dark glass bottles and breaking one open into smaller working bottles is definitely the way to go. See my blogs for storage tips for multiple liters of nic including a ghetto air purge. But as mentioned, the PG and/or VG will have some dissolved Oxygen in it and you cannot get that out.
Just wanted to report back some results I have had with long term storage in the freezer.
I purchased 100mg in bulk in October 2011 from MFS. I cut it down to 50mg with PG. I am strictly a PG vaper, never use VG. Just my preference. Anywho, I store my cut to 50mg in vodka bottles, taped around the bottle lid, in my spare freezer in my garage. I pull out the bottle and top off a 4oz bottle for weekly DIY as needed.
Purchased the bromyl blue test kit this week. I have 6 750mL bottles stored in the freezer, and will add 3 bottles to that when I get my next 100mg shipment in two days. Yep, stocking up for vapepocalypse. 3 of those bottles are from 10-11 and the other 3 bottles are from Nov '12. There is a ever so slight yellow tinge to the 3 older bottles when you compare them to the newer bottles from a few months ago, but you have to look really really close to see it. Did the bromyl blue test yesterday on the nic from October '11, and the result was 51mg nicotine. I think it is safe to assume that my cut to 50mg nic that has been in the freezer for 17 months is still as strong as when I purchased it. No foul smell, no rancid liquid. It is as good as the day I received it!
Just wanted to throw out there another testimony to long term storage and having no problems with it! The freezer I store it in rarely gets opened, unless I am digging out more nicliquid to fill up my smaller in house bottle. So it does sit fairly undisturbed. But all PG and long term storage have been no problem here for 17 months. I will continue to test it every 6 months or so and see where the mg are prior to using it.
Hope this helps!
I purchased 100mg in bulk in October 2011 from MFS. I cut it down to 50mg with PG. I am strictly a PG vaper, never use VG. Just my preference. Anywho, I store my cut to 50mg in vodka bottles, taped around the bottle lid, in my spare freezer in my garage. I pull out the bottle and top off a 4oz bottle for weekly DIY as needed.
Purchased the bromyl blue test kit this week. I have 6 750mL bottles stored in the freezer, and will add 3 bottles to that when I get my next 100mg shipment in two days. Yep, stocking up for vapepocalypse. 3 of those bottles are from 10-11 and the other 3 bottles are from Nov '12. There is a ever so slight yellow tinge to the 3 older bottles when you compare them to the newer bottles from a few months ago, but you have to look really really close to see it. Did the bromyl blue test yesterday on the nic from October '11, and the result was 51mg nicotine. I think it is safe to assume that my cut to 50mg nic that has been in the freezer for 17 months is still as strong as when I purchased it. No foul smell, no rancid liquid. It is as good as the day I received it!
Just wanted to throw out there another testimony to long term storage and having no problems with it! The freezer I store it in rarely gets opened, unless I am digging out more nicliquid to fill up my smaller in house bottle. So it does sit fairly undisturbed. But all PG and long term storage have been no problem here for 17 months. I will continue to test it every 6 months or so and see where the mg are prior to using it.
Hope this helps!
Great thread and info on here! thanks everyone
...I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
... for the record I love pan flutes
...I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
... for the record
I love pan flutes
i just read in a blog about a memeber who purges the air from his nic bottles for long term storage. he suggests gasses like argon, or easier: helium. you can suck the helium out of a balloon with a syringe and inject it into the bottle through a layer of plumbers tape. i doubt i'll do it but just wanted to bring it up to show the level of preservation some people are acheiving.
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i should have read the entire thread before posting. RobertNC is here and you Robert are the one i was quoting.
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