We just might make it through another winter. 
I've owned several suitable scales for the task over the past 20 years, still do. But, I've also got suitable pipettes, syringes, beakers, et al. I guess I missed the discussions on the weight vs. measuring and how much easier weighing is supposed to be. Seems counter-intuitive to me. My experience in non-vaping scientific tinkering nudges me toward weighing solids and measuring liquids. Not cast in stone, grant you, either way will do the job given the density of the liquid. But, that's a variable which doesn't have to be considered, when nearly all of the recipes list in volume and you're measuring by volume. Is there a movement to list recipes by weight? Seems like an unnecessary complication to me.
Up here on the Redneck Riviera: Wind is dying down. But, on the extended forecast, I see four consecutive days with highs below 60°.
Most calculators hhave you enter flavors by %. Then they convert the % of total recipe into mls, drops, & grams. Measure from your bottle of flavoring into the bottle you are mixing in. Tare your scale between flavors. No beakers, syringes or pipettes needed, quick clean up.
You're right. They list in percentage ... percentage volume.
Heres a thread about it.
Ah, something to read with my morning coffee. Thanks.
Wow! A lot longer than my 37 years! Congratulations!
At what wind speed do people stop driving around? I drive a van.
Hard. But, a person can usually push through for 2 hours. Take it easy.ya i got work to do at 7
but thankfully its only about 2 hours of work
That's the word(s) I was trying to think of 'counter-intuitive'.
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Actually, due to the 1.26 g/ml density of VG, it's a pretty important factor when measuring by weight, increasing in importance with the amount of VG used. All other ingredients are close enough to 1.0 for gummint work.
For me, a 10 ml graduated cylinder and a 100 ml graduated cylinder are all that is needed for mixing. Unless I'm using a flavor in my mix that calls for an extremely small amount (like absinthe), the 10 ml graduated cylinder is not necessary. It would be extremely difficult, not to mention costly, to achieve the same accuracy using weight. The scale would have to be one which could measure accurately in 0.1 g increments.If one uses flavors, esp. recipes involving several flavors, weighing sounds to me like a more convenient and accurate method, once you get the right equipment... accurate scales, mixing app that does grams, med-large squeeze bottles with drip caps... not much really...
But for now, I'll just be happy with my KISS method… take a glass beaker, pour in some of this, pour in some of that - shaken not stirred.
Thatvs the scale I got. Will prolly try it for a simple mix later this week.This scale, linked in the second post of the thread Kenna linked to above, ~claims~ to have 0.01g resolution for $22.49... probably not really as accurate as that, but it should do 0.1g just fine.
I don't use flavors anyway, so I just pour 40ml of 60mg/ml nic (in 100% PG) + 80ml PG + 120ml VG into a 240ml wide-mouth 'pete' bottle that my very first order of nic came in years ago. The 'graduations' are on a piece of masking tape down the side, sloppily marked long ago with a dull Sharpie... "bucket mixology" at its best.
I then take that (approximately) 50/50@10mg/ml and 'mix it down' to whatever I want from there, usually ~3.3mg/ml.
Shake-n-vape.
p.s. I actually do use one flavor sometimes though - 10 drops of French Vanilla to ~20ml of plain juice... sometimes, once in a great while, when I feel like splurging.
