Question about diy mixing

[Jammer429]

Hello everyone I had a question I was hoping to find and answer for. I have been vaping for around 7 months now and loving every bit of it. I have decided to start mixing my own juice so I ordered a 36mg nicotine/vg base. I don't plan on using any pg for my juice. I used a calculator to get my mixing directions and I am concerned about something. The calculator is showing this http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l213/Markithiess/Untitled_zps8c46b090.png so knowing that I am using a nic/vg base it is saying to add additional vg. I can understand this as diluting the juice for lower nicotine. But the juice would be extremely thick. I know that I can use distilled water to cut the juice down but I don't know how much I should use. I just wanted to get some info straight before I went mixing anything so any help would be much appreciated.



Justin

 

[sonnguyen10123]

Not much of a diy person. But if your final juice is, let's say 16mg. You have a 10ml bottle of it, and if you add let's say 2 ml of water, the nicotine level would be around 12-14 mg. My Two cents

 

[Sthur]

Hello and welcome to ECF. Once you get 5 posts here you can ask questions in the DIY section.

I don't know what flavoring your using but most are pg based and at 20% it might dilute in enough to thin it out.

I tried this calc and so far so good. dot1ml | Eliquid calculator & recipe repository

 

[Jammer429]

Hello and welcome to ECF. Once you get 5 posts here you can ask questions in the DIY section.

I don't know what flavoring your using but most are pg based and at 20% it might dilute in enough to thin it out.

I tried this calc and so far so good. dot1ml | Eliquid calculator & recipe repository

Thanks for the replies. I did make that very clear. My I have lorann right now awaiting flavor to arrive from wizardlabs. I am aware that most flavoring has pg. I just didn't order any pg to add. So instead of using pg which from my understanding would thin the juice I would like to use water.

 

[Jammer429]

I just want to because not to mix something that is going to send me to the hosipital if you know what I mean. Want to make sure I fully understand before I do anything.

 

[abasm]

I have read on other threads on this site that water or vodka can be added to thin the vg juices. Most seem to indicate 10% to be the maximum amount you should add. I myself tend to start at 5% and add more if the juice is still to thick.
hope this helps and good luck

 

[Jammer429]

I have read on other threads on this site that water or vodka can be added to thin the vg juices. Most seem to indicate 10% to be the maximum amount you should add. I myself tend to start at 5% and add more if the juice is still to thick.
hope this helps and good luck

Thanks, I mixed up a 3ml sample last night and my flavoring cut the juice more then I thought it would. I mixed it at 18mg which had no throat hit at all. I'm used to using 24mg, I didn't think that small of a nicotine difference what be that noticeable.

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[Jammer429]

Okay, I think I am understanding this a bit better. If I am wrong hopefully someone can correct me. I have a 36mg Nicotine/Vg base and a bottle of glycerin. If I were to mix lets say a 5 ml bottle using lorann flavoring. I could do 3.3mg of nicotine base and 1.7mg of glycerin. Then just add my flavoring a drop at a time to achieve the right amount of flavor. This would make a safe 24mg mixture correct?

 

[Hoosier]

That would make a 5ml mix of 24mg/ml before adding flavoring. (Actually 23.8mg/ml which is good enough to call 24) Since flavoring adds volume, ml, it will drop the mg/ml of the nicotine. That might work for you? The final nicotine strength is very unlikely to be 24mg/ml though, but it will be safe.

Kurt's Rule of Thumb for all VG mixes with PG flavoring is water + PG based flavoring = 20-22%. He says this makes it the right consistency for most vaping devices. I trust his thought on this since I don't make all VG mixes and I know he has been doing it for long enough to have it figured out.

 

[SRPJ]

Using water varies on what youre trying to get it to.

Lets say you want to get it to 24mg like you mentioned and lets say you want a 10ml bottle.

66.33% of the bottle would be the nicotine vg
10% flavoring
23.66% distilled water.

so thats:
6.4ml nic vg
1ml flavoring
2.6ml distilled water