Quality of DIY products?

[Davantrac]

Been working out some prices to come up with an approximate 12mg base unflavoured 50/50 base. I've use round numbers to keep things simple.

I've got my prices from LT Ecigs, VapeEscape, Big juice, Grey Haze and Chefs.

Prices vary from £20 to £40 for a round 400 ml but keeping numbers simple I got 500ml for £23 of 1 of them.

i got these numbers by keeping things to full bottles, so nic level varies between 13.5 and 14.4 but adding flavouring will reduce that a bit. I think 1 of the bases worked out at a 60/40 vg/pg mix. Again for a beginner I don't think it has to be exact measures yet.

My question is basically is there a quality difference when 1 price can be double another.

I've used these supplies because they are all located in the Uk so no problem with shipping and do the quantity I'm looking at for a beginner.

 

[djsvapour]

My question is basically is there a quality difference when 1 price can be double another.

I've often bought pre-mixed PG/VG and pay around £6.00 for 100ml (60p per 10ml). LT e-cigs.

I make that £30 for 500ml. I could do it cheaper with single bottles of PG and VG and PG Nicotine base (54mg) but I can't be bothered.

Basically, anything over £30 has got to be expensive if you ask me.

 

[Davantrac]

Just looked again at the LT site and it works out at £1 more to get 50/50 mixed rather than 54mg nic plus vg+pg off them and mixing it myself. The only difference would be pre-mix is 12mg where as mixing it would turn out about 13.5mg then adding flavour would drop it a bit more. Hardly noticeable I reckon, so for a quid it must be safer to get it mixed.
Cheers djs.

 

[dw117]

Been working out some prices to come up with an approximate 12mg base unflavoured 50/50 base. I've use round numbers to keep things simple.

I've got my prices from LT Ecigs, VapeEscape, Big juice, Grey Haze and Chefs.

Prices vary from £20 to £40 for a round 400 ml but keeping numbers simple I got 500ml for £23 of 1 of them.

i got these numbers by keeping things to full bottles, so nic level varies between 13.5 and 14.4 but adding flavouring will reduce that a bit. I think 1 of the bases worked out at a 60/40 vg/pg mix. Again for a beginner I don't think it has to be exact measures yet.

My question is basically is there a quality difference when 1 price can be double another.

I've used these supplies because they are all located in the Uk so no problem with shipping and do the quantity I'm looking at for a beginner.

First of all I wouldn't bother with grey haze because I remember seeing their PG and VG when they added it to the site and it's £10 for 100ml. 100ml at chefs is £2 I think. It can't be 5x the quality.

I've used the pre-mixed 6mg and 0mg 50:50 from LT and I was happy with what I got. I now use inawera 50:50 direct from Poland as it works out cheaper if you're spending over ~£25 I think.

Quick look at the inawera site and if you get 1 litre of 12mg 50:50 it works out at 43.5p per 10ml and say you only want 500ml it's 56.6p per 10ml. It's cheaper for me because the weaker nic ones are cheaper and I buy 0mg and 6mg and mix using them to 3mg (factoring in the flavour concentrate as well). Inawera concentrates are superb value as well as each bottle will makes litres of juice.

Haven't tried the chefs but it seemed good value to me and I'd assume they use the same stuff in their liquids. The only thing that put me off was that I vape at 3mg these days and their nic was 72mg I think so making a 10ml batch would only need 0.4ml of the nic and I thought that even a slight error in measurement would affect the nic level of my juice quite a bit, although thinking about it now I could just use a 1ml syringe for accuracy instead of the 10ml I use for VG/PG at the moment, hmmmm....

Haven't tried the others and personally I don't believe there would be a massive difference in quality between different PG/VG. See if the sites state they are food grade or pharmaceutical grade or whatever and make of that what you will. You could also post this question in the DIY area of the forum and see what people think.

 

[Davantrac]

Your right it was Grey Haze that was the most expensive.
The reason a cose those quantities was because it involved no measuring just a full bottle of this and a full bottle of that etc. no mistakes could be made for a first timer making up just a base liquid.

 

[Rizzyking]

Davantrac aaec has a fantastic mix calculator on their site i use it all the time and its never steered me wrong I actually find mixing relaxing for an hour or so but I can be weird. Another site you might want to have a look at is UKflavours.com UK company and one of the owners is a vaper I use their concentrates and will be using their nic base when i next need some fantastic company and care about their customers. Mixing can be daunting but once you do it so simple and easy and cost savings are great also you get total control over your liquid can't be beat.