Have you checked WizardLabs for flavorings? WL is only $1.59 for smaller sizes -- they sale 8 mL vials. They're one of the cheapest for flavorings and they have Capella and TFA.
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Have you checked WizardLabs for flavorings? WL is only $1.59 for smaller sizes -- they sale 8 mL vials. They're one of the cheapest for flavorings and they have Capella and TFA.
Looks like you found your site but for futurz; heartland vapes, wizard labs, diy flavor shack, one stop diy shop, e-liquid mart, and my freedom smokes. In no particular order, just sites i bookmarked from previous forum posts for me to peruse later. I haven't checked any availability or pricing on most sites as i went with bull city, nude, wizard labs and diy flavor shack for my needs.
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@ Mr. Mann's comments: I use Wizard often and like them a lot. As to the bottles, get 15Ml's they are only a penny or two more and they are more practical for carry and such. You can always put less in a bigger bottle but you can't put more in to a smaller bottle. Besides, with the 15 ml bottles, you can use Avery address labels to make cool custom labels.
As to weight based mixing, you hear a lot of pros and cons. Almost all the cons are from people who have never tried it. I don't want to get in to an internet argument because a lot of people seem oddly apposed to mixing by weight but let me just say that I will never go back to washing out syringes. There is a thread here in DIY if you want to look in to it more.
Edit: On your list I did not see any beakers. I like me my 50-250 Ml beakers. Just get an inexpensive Borosilicate set off of FleaBay. Oh and make sure to pick up a graduated cylinder at some point. The size doesn't matter because you will never use it but it makes your mixing area look really cool and scientific and stuff
Second Edit: ......and some glass funnels. At least a couple of 15ml ones. They fit in the opening of a 15ml bottle. And, a bigger one that fit in to the opening of your 125 ml Cosmo soft bottles with Yorker caps that you put you VG and PG in to for dispensing while mixing.
As to weight based mixing, you hear a lot of pros and cons. Almost all the cons are from people who have never tried it. I don't want to get in to an internet argument because a lot of people seem oddly apposed to mixing by weight but let me just say that I will never go back to washing out syringes. There is a thread here in DIY if you want to look in to it more.
Edit: On your list I did not see any beakers. I like me my 50-250 Ml beakers. Just get an inexpensive Borosilicate set off of FleaBay. Oh and make sure to pick up a graduated cylinder at some point. The size doesn't matter because you will never use it but it makes your mixing area look really cool and scientific and stuff
Second Edit: ......and some glass funnels. At least a couple of 15ml ones. They fit in the opening of a 15ml bottle. And, a bigger one that fit in to the opening of your 125 ml Cosmo soft bottles with Yorker caps that you put you VG and PG in to for dispensing while mixing.
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Edit: On your list I did not see any beakers. I like me my 50-250 Ml beakers. Just get an inexpensive Borosilicate set off of FleaBay. Oh and make sure to pick up a graduated cylinder at some point. The size doesn't matter because you will never use it but it makes your mixing area look really cool and scientific and stuff
Second Edit: ......and some glass funnels. At least a couple of 15ml ones. They fit in the opening of a 15ml bottle. And, a bigger one that fit in to the opening of your 125 ml Cosmo soft bottles with Yorker caps that you put you VG and PG in to for dispensing while mixing.
if you meant me: i got beakers on the way, other misc supplies i already have including gloves. if you didnt mean me...
then i saw the graduated cylinder... i saw some one recommend one a time or two and was thinking... WHY!? then you made a very good and valid point... now i have to get a Bunsen burner, 2 stands, hoses, a hot plate, centrifuge... no TWO centrifuges, scales, flasks, tubes, tube stand, filters, some pea-tree dishes, condensers, a CART! I GOTTA GET A CART!, parafilm, sieves, support stands, and dear god i HAVE to have some Autoclave bags!!!!
I like simple stuff. Bonuses:
1. Easy to work with.
2. Little or no cleaning.
3. Cheap
So, my equipment:
30 ml syringe
12 ml syringe
1 ml syringe
Plastic drop bottles, 30 and 50 ml - about 10 of them.
2 125 ml wide mouth glass bottles (for nicotine and base)
That's it.
I use bigger syringes for nicotine, PG, VG and clean them about once a month.
1 ml syringe - for flavorings, clean after use.
Disclaimer: I do not like any of posted recipes. I like more diluted flavors (about 2-3% total). I do not use calculators, I hate them. It's so much easier just to measure what I want today. If I do not like result, I can always dilute it.
EDIT: It looks like I am too sensitive to chemicals. I mean flavorings.
1. Easy to work with.
2. Little or no cleaning.
3. Cheap
So, my equipment:
30 ml syringe
12 ml syringe
1 ml syringe
Plastic drop bottles, 30 and 50 ml - about 10 of them.
2 125 ml wide mouth glass bottles (for nicotine and base)
That's it.
I use bigger syringes for nicotine, PG, VG and clean them about once a month.
1 ml syringe - for flavorings, clean after use.
Disclaimer: I do not like any of posted recipes. I like more diluted flavors (about 2-3% total). I do not use calculators, I hate them. It's so much easier just to measure what I want today. If I do not like result, I can always dilute it.
EDIT: It looks like I am too sensitive to chemicals. I mean flavorings.
You should try a few of the flavorings from Nude as well. The 5 pack is a pretty good deal. 5ml might not sound like a lot of flavoring, but they're highly concentrated. I made 90ml with one of the 5ml flavorings I got and they're plenty strong(but not overwhelming). Vaping their Melon Madness right now, but I also really like Very Berry, Strawberry Banana Smoothie and Peaches and Cream. They're all really good and I didn't even steep them very long.
Edit: TFA Koolada is a good flavor to get. It adds a refreshing cooling effect without the flavor of menthol if you're into that sort of thing. I haven't got to experiment with it a whole lot yet though.
Edit 2: I recall seeing you mention getting free shipping from NN. You'll get it SUPER fast, they sent mine Priority 2 Day
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Thnx everybody my list in constantly being revised over and over but Im.settling.ont he final list. And yes I already have an used set of beakers, flasks, and graduated cylinders from my biochem days @ college lol. Does anyone know a good blue raspberry flavor though?? Im being mostly advised against tfa's because of a chemical taste and i.cant stand that...
Any glass wear that was left over from my college days were long ago converted in to clandestine smoking devices
If you have that kind of background then you will be even more predisposed to weight based mixing.
Can't help you with the booberry, more of a bakery guy myself.
Edit: I'm an editing little fool today. I noticed you are ordering your VG/PG pre-mixed. That kind of limits you and you seem to have the background to mix things yourself. If you are mixing with 80/20 and then add say 17 percent pg based flavor and 3% pg based nic. you will end up with a maximum achievable VG percentage of 60. I think you will want to play around with your mixes as you experiment and you will want to be able to control the percentages more precisely. Order them separately. Duda Diesel is a good place for some bulk vg/pg.
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Any glass wear that was left over from my college days were long ago converted in to clandestine smoking devices
If you have that kind of background then you will be even more predisposed to weight based mixing.
Can't help you with the booberry, more of a bakery guy myself.
Edit: I'm an editing little fool today. I noticed you are ordering your VG/PG pre-mixed. That kind of limits you and you seem to have the background to mix things yourself. If you are mixing with 80/20 and then add say 17 percent pg based flavor and 3% pg based nic. you will end up with a maximum achievable VG percentage of 60. I think you will want to play around with your mixes as you experiment and you will want to be able to control the percentages more precisely. Order them separately. Duda Diesel is a good place for some bulk vg/pg.
Nude Nicotine sells straight PG and VG as well. I'd be willing to put money on there not being anyone better as far as purity than them. They send full chemical analysis with everything they send. The .... is very high purity.
Oh yeah I neglected to mention it earlier but I already have in my possession 200ml of VG from the last time I ever attempted DIY (A poor attempt from way before I had the proper knowledge to mix), and I naturally intend to mix that into my solution to bring up the VG %
For mixing by weight I strongly recommend HotRod's calculator - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/480587-new-calculator-try.html. It already has the grams per ml amounts for PG (1.036) and VG (1.249) built in, so you don't have to do the figuring. And it is a very good calculator no matter what method you use for measuring.
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