New Member: DIY Juice HELP

[Jack Bastock]

Hello guys my name is Jack, I live in the UK and I'm slowly upgrading. I've decided I now want to start making my own juice because its all getting very expensive. I have also watched alot of videos online but still abit hazey with product choice. So here is the questions I have to ask -

(UK Websites please)
- Best place to buy my flavour concentrate?
- Best place to buy my PG & VG?
- Best place to buy syringes?
- Best place to find recipes and formulas?
- Should I buy already mixed PG & VG?

If you guys could help me it would be a huge, as non of my friends vape nor do I know anyone that can help, thankyou so much for your time,
Jack

My set up is -
RX2000 200w
velocity dripper
OHMS at 0.28

Favourite UK juice -
Pure Evil: Sloth
Relentless: Grape Drank

 

[suprtrkr]

Hi and welcome to the board. I DIY, but I'm on the other side of the pond so I don't know much about what's available over there. Bump for an answer!

 

[Izan]

Hello guys my name is Jack, I live in the UK and I'm slowly upgrading. I've decided I now want to start making my own juice because its all getting very expensive. I have also watched alot of videos online but still abit hazey with product choice. So here is the questions I have to ask -

(UK Websites please)
- Best place to buy my flavour concentrate?
- Best place to buy my PG & VG?
- Best place to buy syringes?
- Best place to find recipes and formulas?
- Should I buy already mixed PG & VG?

If you guys could help me it would be a huge, as non of my friends vape nor do I know anyone that can help, thankyou so much for your time,
Jack

My set up is -
RX2000 200w
velocity dripper
OHMS at 0.28

Favourite UK juice -
Pure Evil: Sloth
Relentless: Grape Drank

Plenty to read and much to learn.
Have fun

UK Vapers - Mixology Laboratory

http://allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/board/18/mixology-general

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

UK List of flavour concentrate suppliers

"e-liquid-recipes" <---google for the website --search box in top left corner
my second favorite, it's in english too
Le DIY pour les Nuls - Recettes DIY - Trucs et Astuces. <---translate in lower left corner, search in upper right
Clone Recipes | Homemade E-juice Recipes
Reddit...read the sidebar on right for more specific vendor info.
Mega TFA / TPA Recipe Thread • /r/DIY_eJuice (TFA/TPA)
Solid list of DIY clones! • /r/DIY_eJuice
hic • /r/cerealkillaclone (FA)

 

[Fantazmagoricl]

I'm in the UK as well and I make my own juice. I use a site called vapable for my concentrates, cheapest I've found so far but their pg and vg aren't that cheap. I use my local b & m for that.

 

[BrotherBob]

Welcome and glad you joined.

 

[Jack Bastock]

Right guys, just a quick update. I've done my research and came to this conclusion. Im going to buy these selected products which am I right so?

1. 1 Litre 1L Vegetable Glycerine VG & Propylene Glycol
2. 50ml - 75mg Nicotine (VG Based)
3. 0.01 Digital Scales
4. Syringes x2
5. 15ml bottles

My outcome is to achieve flavors with either VG.PG ratio of 80/20,70/30 or maybe even 60/40.

If I do buy these things, should I be covered and ready to start making ? Thankyou

 

[Izan]

Hi mate,
I use a perm marker to label bottles.
Take advantage of the "notes" section of your Ejuice calculator : I like EJMU

DarkStar Vapour
If you get nic in a PG base, I find the nic base plus flavouring mix out to about 20% ; then it's super easy to just top up with VG. 20/80

Good luck
I

 

[djsvapour]

If I do buy these things, should I be covered and ready to start making ? Thankyou

Sounds good to me. Guessing you are making low nic, and you're using PG/VG individual bottles, you can easily get your percentage of VG.

I would get the Nicotine in PG and follow @Izan suggestion.

As for concentrates... beware... too many companies bottle their own up (from the real thing) and dilute it.
(Yes... I'm afraid so).
I like Decadent, but if you are into 'posh' e-liquid maybe consider ready to go all-in-one concentrates. Chef's Vapour and T-Juice offer this.
There are clones of many recipes and AAEC has a ton of recipes.

 

[evan le'garde]

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[evan le'garde]

These are all in the UK, well, apart from the dropper bottles.

Here for 72mg nicotine base liquid. The UK's legal maximum for nicotine liquid is 72mg.
7.2% Nicotine (VG Base)
This is Vegetable Glycerine.
Best use this to keep the finished liquid reasonably thick.


But there again if you need it to be thinner get some Propylene Glycol nicotine base liquid. Here :
7.2% Nicotine (PG Base)

Here's some Vegetable Glycerine base/cutting liquid. Used to make the bulk of you e-liquid.
5 LITRE VEGETABLE GLYCERINE EP/USP FOOD/COSMETIC GRADE

And here's some Propylene Glycol base/cutting liquid if you prefer thinner e-liquid.
5 LITRES MPG Propylene Glycol USP/EP GRADE

Here's a page full of e liquid flavourings. Cheapest you'll find on the internet.
flavor concentrate | eBay

And here's a place to buy some dropper bottles. These ones have a long plastic tip which make it easier to refill your tanks without having to use anything else such as a syringe. Ships from Hong Kong and takes about two weeks. I couldn't find anywhere local that sells these types of long tip bottles and i searched for ages. Trust me they are a lot more practical than any other type.
3-100ml Empty Plastic Dropper Childproof Cap Squeezable Bottles e-juice E-Liquid

You're going to need some syringes and some blunt needles. Look here :
2ml 5ml 10ml 20ml Syringes Blunt Needles Refill INK Shisha Juice Vapes Glue | eBay


The nicotine base is 72mg so a quarter of that is 18mg. So using 5ml of that equates to 18mg when you finish making say 20ml of e-liquid. Easy right !?. If you're cutting 72mg nicotine base liquid down to 18mg all you need to do is make sure the nicotine base liquid is a quarter of the total volume of the finished liquid you are making.

So to make 20ml of e-liquid with for example 18mg of nicotine.

5ml of VG nicotine base liquid.
13ml of VG cutting liquid.
2ml of flavouring.

Shake for a few minutes and you're done.

That's how i like it. That's 90% VG / 10% PG. The flavouring is PG based.

If you do need it thinner you could use a lot more flavouring if you wanted or use the Propylene Glycol nicotine base and cutting liquids instead of VG. Propylene Glycol is thin like water. Vegetable Glycerine is much thicker. I don't know how thick you need it but some people like it much thinner.

 

[Jack Bastock]

This is getting complicated haha, but its half the fun learning I guess. I just wanted to say a massive thank you for helping me everyone. I wish I joined on here earlier, there's so many vape education platforms I guess I didn't know which one too use. But yeah thank you again everyone x