Luer Cap or Pierceable cap for Nic Storage

[zebra58]

I'm a noob to DIY and i am trying to figure out the best glass bottles and cap foe long term storage for my Nic. I read posts the talk about both types of caps - Which is the best for long term storage?

 

[Dixie1954]

I use these type caps >>> Black Cone Lined Cap (18/400) - I would not use other type of caps on my nicotine storage bottles. But you may get other answers as well. What size glass bottles do you plan on using? I broke my 100mg nic down into 15ml glass bottles and just take 1 out at a time and make a 120ml base batch. Forgot to tell you that.

 

[zebra58]

I plan on using 125 and 250 ml bottles

 

[dc99]

Same ones I use. I keep mine in 4oz boston bottles. That way I don't un-thaw more than I can use in a short time

 

[Alter]

I got a 500ml wiretop bottle and store the rest in 50ml brown bottles in the freezer of my 100mg nic. I just grab a 50ml/100mg and cut into 100ml of 48 so I use in my mixes. I get about 2 months off the 100ml of 48 and my nic is always fresh as we can say.

 

[Dixie1954]

Yeah I should have said I use maybe 3ml a day of juice. I am a HUGE juice guzzler.

 

[zebra58]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I was trying to find out the best cap for the 100ml nic so i don't have to keep opening and letting air in the bottle to degrade the nic.

 

[bwh79]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I was trying to find out the best cap for the 100ml nic so i don't have to keep opening and letting air in the bottle to degrade the nic.

Just break it up into smaller bottles, so that you're only exposing a little bit at a time when you do open one.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I was trying to find out the best cap for the 100ml nic so i don't have to keep opening and letting air in the bottle to degrade the nic.

Pierceable caps do not protect from oxygen. You take out 10 ml of liquid, 10 ml of air will to in through hole. And hole will remain in the cap. Then 2 holes. The 3 holes...
As was said, smaller bottles is a way to go.

 

[mhertz]

I talked to kurt about this once... As said best caps are polycone caps, but it's also fine to use e.g. euro-dropper inserts, which also acts as a gasket, and has the advantage of being easilly syringe-dispensable, and is much safer if e.g. tipping over.

I don't use syringes and mix by weight, and so prefer to use polycone caps... Infact I just got an order in of bottles + caps, and of course they send me regular non-cone-lined caps! I mailed them about it and they just said that was what they got from their supplier as polycone caps and I got store credit for the amount. It was a fellow EU vendor from UK, so I didn't have to pay double or tripple the price for bottles+caps because of vat, customs and whatnot, but I guess I have to resort to that now(order from US)...