New to DIY - Question about dropper bottles and pippets

[AH1968]

Hello good people at ECF I've been vaping since Sept. 2013 and haven't looked back at my 2 pack a day habit since!! I wish I would have discovered this years earlier...

Well, I have now begun the journey of DIY ejuice, and so far am extremely happy with what I have labored to produce, but I have run into a couple small hurdles that I am hoping to get some help with..

I currently have about 30 10ml bottles that I have mixed (saved and cleaned old bottles that I purchased) and would like to purchase additional bottles. However, I prefer the thin tip LDPE bottles, and what I have found is that I either have to buy 200-10K pieces or spend .80 each!!

I would like to find a happy medium if possible, say 50ct or so but at a decent price. OR a good alternative, but I only use Kanger PROtank II's and really need the thinner, longer dispenser, so the generic droppers just won't cut it (found this out the hard way lol)

Also, I started out pouring my flavors into dropper bottles, but have since started using pippets to add my flavors, other than the suggestion of using a unique syringe for each flavor, is there a better way, as I am finding that I am addicted to mixing and trying new flavors, and will rapidly have boxes of pippets, syringes, and dropper bottles to try and organize...

Once again any suggestions would be appreciated

There may be a thread about this, and if so, I apologize for not being able to find it....

 

[tazzle]

These inexpensive bottles from Fasttech are exactly what I've been buying locally for a third of the price, and work great. I would still like to transition to all-glass though; I have 50 glass bottles, and I'll probably get 50 more and try to make most of my stuff that way (but I already have at least 100 of these plastic needle-nose bottles -- they're way more convenient, but I'm getting a little paranoid of plastic leaching issues).

I use pipettes, a different one for each flavor as I'm mixing, but just rinse and clean in hot water as needed. For some highly concentrated flavors, I just do drops directly from the bottle, and skip the pipettes. I've never figured out how to be all tidy and neat about it! I pretty much always have pipettes, syringes, measuring tubes, bottles, paper toweling, etc. scattered all over the kitchen table.

 

[dice57]

I like 50 ml squeeze bottles for filling and dripping. Ebay is a good source for DIY supplies. Found some 60 ml Syringes, for measuring large volume batches. Was actually considering getting some tattoo rinsing bottles, looked like they might be handy.

I also used old juice bottles in the beginning, still do, but usually get rid of the old ones when sharing juice with friends. I just pick up a few new items from time to time. Always have backup, even with lab gear. lol.

 

[Goompa]

I've bought many plastic and glass bottles, caps, tips, etc from these folks in Eagle, Idaho.
Fair pricing and no minimum quantity order, but $10.00 small order fee, and seems shipping is higher than I like.

Plastic bottles, plastic jars and glass containers | Container & Packaging Supply, Inc.

$0.06 each for this drip tip.

Don't know if they have exactly what you're looking for, but do have a wide variety.

Another popular site is US Plastics, and of course eBay.

For syringes and pipettes I go to Amazon.

Good Luck.

 

[tj99959]

I mix & store my juice in glass bottles .... as in Kerr or Bell canning jars. The only syringe I use is a 100ml irrigation syringe, and don't even have a pipette. A measuring cup from the kitchen works fine for mixing a pint of base liquid. I mix my base at 50/50 PG-VG at 10mg nic. The 30ml bottles I use were acquired when I was spending way to much for juice. The flavorings I use (Tasty Puff) mix at one drop/ml of base.

It doesn't need to be any harder than that.

 

[AH1968]

Tazzle:The Fasttech lead looks VERY promising! Thank you! Yeah, I have my little vape table that is strewn with flavor bottles, and measuring tubes, but trying to get it organized, which already consists of a small drawer organizer, and a tackle box. It still amazes me at how quickly I am outgrowing what I "thought" would be enough space lol

Dice57: I am hesitant when it comes to Ebay, as i've had a couple bad experiences in the past (not vape related) and the only thing I use 50ml + volume containers for at this point would be my base, although a squeeze bottle for that is def something i'm looking into.

Goompa: Those are exactly the kind of tip I am looking for, and if they sell them with bottles, well... SCORE!

tj99959: I like to be a little more precise ( for duplication purposes lol ) but as yet, like I said not mixing that kind of volume...yet.. lol

Thank you all for your quick responses!

 

[Craig Laform]

YOu can find several people on ebay who sell the bottles that you are looking. The best way that I have found and this is my personal preference. I use a 10 ml syrienge for the pg then the vg and I use a 1 ml syrienge to add my flavors 'seperate syrienge fo the nic'. But before I use the second flavor I just take a little water in the syrienge shake it up and squirt it out a few times then I dry the outside off and have never had flavors that started to mix.

 

[tj99959]

Tazzle:The Fasttech lead looks VERY promising! Thank you! Yeah, I have my little vape table that is strewn with flavor bottles, and measuring tubes, but trying to get it organized, which already consists of a small drawer organizer, and a tackle box. It still amazes me at how quickly I am outgrowing what I "thought" would be enough space lol

Dice57: I am hesitant when it comes to Ebay, as i've had a couple bad experiences in the past (not vape related) and the only thing I use 50ml + volume containers for at this point would be my base, although a squeeze bottle for that is def something i'm looking into.

Goompa: Those are exactly the kind of tip I am looking for, and if they sell them with bottles, well... SCORE!

tj99959: I like to be a little more precise ( for duplication purposes lol ) but as yet, like I said not mixing that kind of volume...yet.. lol

Thank you all for your quick responses!

The larger the volume of your base you do, the easier it becomes to be precise. My logic was that I only wanted to handle that 100mg nic base once instead of every time I wanted to mix up 10ml of juice. So I have pint jars of 10mg base to work from.

 

[AH1968]

Tj99959, I'm sorry, must have misunderstood ya, YES I do that same as for my base, but only mixing my 12mg in 100ml batches at the moment.. I am sure the day will come when I want/need to produce some larger qty.. as for now i'm mainly mixing single flavors in 10ml to get the flavor/vape/steep etc right, then mixing those to find "new" flavors, but I am absolutely with you on handling the 100mg nic as little as possible.. Thanks for the input