measuring question diy mixing help!

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ellejewell

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ok, I have begun mixing up my own flavors. Which is a blast by the way! but I seem to be running into a problem. Here is what I am doing

I have 24mg of 50/50 base and I want to make a single flavor at 2% when I put it in the calculator I get 9.83ml of base and 0.2ml of flavoring.

How in the world do I measure out 9.83ml? I only have 5ml syringes and 1ml syringes. I have been resorting on doing the math by drops because I don't know how to break down the .83ml. What is your method for solving this problem? basically I will do the 9ml with my syringe and the .83ml I figure out through drops. There must be a better way on getting this figured out.
 

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I don't know about using teaspoons, I think that wouldn't be very accurate. I guess I could simply round up a bit but I thought the point of the calculators were to be exact? do they make smaller increment syringes than 1ml? I thought it would be easier to just get a 50/50 nic base at my desired level, but it wasn't until after I purchased it I realized it would go down in nic strength when i added flavorings. So I am trying to use up what I have of that using single flavors so the strength doesnt go down too low.
 

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They do make syringes that measure in 0.1 mL, but unless you're doing huge batches or worrying about reproducibility for sale purposes, I agree that you won't notice that level of rounding imprecision in your mixing. As long as you do it the same each time you make it, you'll get the same results and that's probably what you're looking for. I don't think our palates are sufficiently sensitive to notice that small a deviation (unless, of course, you're one of the supertasters and then all bets are off!)
 
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