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OK, I might get stepped on for this by a Moderator, but this is a DIY thread so...
In the Liquid Extraction from tobacco subsection of the DIY forum, there is a post from a seven year member of the ECF. I don't recognize the avatar, and this individual starts by saying he hasn't been around a while.
This person claims to have liters of premade NET's, and several more containers of strait extracts that they are trying to move along to someone else. He (?) describes a PGA/ Freeze filtering/ 2 macron filtering process that would make his extracts, if done properly, at least as clean as mine.
Post #38 of this thread : Do It Yourself Naturally Extracted Tobaccos Chat

I haven't been active here for quite some time and not sure where to post this, but here goes anyhow.

I've been making and vaping NET's for a few years now, and love them. However, I've decided to abandon the effort, due to a couple of reasons.

Rather than simply dumping them down the drain, I'd rather give them to someone who would enjoy them. I have around 6L made, at 10% extract. All are 6mg/ml (Vapers Tek) and either 70/30 or 60/40. (It would be simple to add more nicotine if you vape at a higher strength.) I also have enough extract to make another 6L. I used the Alcohol heat extraction process, strained and coffee filtered, and freeze filtered with a 2 micron filter.

Flavors are, Old Joe, Virginia Flake, Dunhill Elizabethan, Mississippi River, Mississippi Mud, LA Red, Ryunjin, Virginia Spice, and one or two others.

If anyone in the Denver to Northern Colorado area would like these, send me a PM. I also get to the Springs from time to time and will be there sometime next month.

I just thought any DIY'ers playing with NET's might want to be aware of this.
And now Classwife should come slap me on the wrist :(
 

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Bilberry alone tastes sort of like a dark, slightly tart rasberry to me with a bit of a kick to it, IDK hard to describe, but it has this blueberry sort of thing going on too but without the grossness.. I don't like blueberry. Bilberry is freaking versatile I use it in a lot of my berry mixes.

DO not ask me what I have, I was sent some and I have no clue. I should really order more, but the stuff I have is pretty potent.

I can't believe I caught up! I started notes and had this naïve idea I would like finish Thursday's at 1 pm and do yoga and go to Walmart. OMG, I finished at like 6 pm and got JFF syndrome (just censored finish) and well, I was eating this vile concoction of some sort of scalloped potatoes and ham thing at 9 pm because it was almost all I had in the freezer.. I have found out (never thought it was possible) you can over salt food. Particularly ham .I dragged me off to be d after that and had to decide-- stay on schedule? Sleep an actual 9 hours? I went with the latter but I am ONLY doing what I want today. Which does include buying food, and doing yoga. I'm going to go to bed really early tonight and suffer though the 5 am thing again.

The husband is right it's better for your metabolism to exercise in the morning. I have lost about 6 pounds and that tis after turning some of me into muscle first. Course, it could be the sleep deprivation thing too, there were definitely days I felt like a concentration camp victim, not gonna lie (no offense to real ones, I get it's not exactly.... .the same.)

I may be wrong about the shoe thing, seems my hip is now bugging me randomly .Sorta. IDK. I did order different yoga toes from Amazon though. Hopefully it helps My orders got wiped out when I switched my account so like, IDK what I got last time. I searched. I hate Amazon it takes forever to buy Anything unless you know exactly what I want.

I am using my yoga toes now because if I DON'T in a day or so my back is all like, "Oh HAY Anna, remember those yoga toes you got so long ago, it was to help ME and now I am going to BUG YA,."

I really have little positive to say about getting old other than the lack of energy is a good thing, I can make mistakes more slowly and deliberately. Awesome.

Bilberry is usually not a mistake though.

Anna
 

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Two test vapes today. First up is Honduran Strawberry. I first tried this with 8 days steeping and found it to be a bit on the raw side so I shelved it for another week. This extra week (2 weeks total) made a significant difference. I no longer get that raw flavor. That said, this recipe is not popping for me as much as I would like. I'm pretty sure it is the strawberry I'm using. It's 1.5% Juicy Strawberry and 1.5% Ripe Strawberry with 8% Honduran Ligero. I don't know if its that strawberry doesn't vape well or if I just have the wrong strawberry. Only one way to find out...try other strawberries. So that will be my next step. This is not a bad vape by any means and very well could work for others (it's the same strawberry combination in Fran's Stawberry Biscuit recipe) but I think it has room for improvement in this particular recipe and just may be personal preference for the strawberry component. Also, at 3% it might be a touch on the light side. So I may need to adjust this down the road too depending on results of subsequent strawberry versions.
 

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I really have little positive to say about getting old other than the lack of energy is a good thing, I can make mistakes more slowly and deliberately. Awesome.

It's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure!

The key is to remember past mistakes and only make new ones :)

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    I am trying the stixx blueberry tea that I added blueberry extra and wild to. It’s still not great but useable. Maybe I just don’t like tea Vapes.
    You'd have to try a good one before saying that.
     

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    I would say 7-8% for single flavor in a tank. Its really a sort of generic tropical fruit of some kind for quite a while and then it changes into a juicy mango. If you can just let it steep a couple of weeks and try it. I know its weird considering its a fruit but I promise it takes time to develope
    I took it that high and left it for a few weeks, maybe just doesn't shine for me like others. Haven't gotten around to trying the Golden Eye I bought several months ago.
     

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    I took it that high and left it for a few weeks, maybe just doesn't shine for me like others. Haven't gotten around to trying the Golden Eye I bought several months ago.
    Quite possible as we all get different things from the same flavor. I really never take it that high as I normally use it in a blend of tropical fruits. Golden eye is good to but I wouldnt recommend taking it anywhere near that high. 3-4% max or it gets chemical on you.
     

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    OMG you are tasting strawberry alone? Exceedingly dangerous.

    It kinda reminds me of that AA joke, I forget exactly how it goes, but something like, "You are staying home with your brain alone? Get out of the house, you are inside it with a stranger who is trying to kill you!"

    Course, I hate strawberry. You can say which one's "best" but it falls just below cherry in my book.

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    I am trying the stixx blueberry tea that I added blueberry extra and wild to. It’s still not great but useable. Maybe I just don’t like tea Vapes.
    There were several teas I loved in commercial juices. Early on, I tried to make my own, with little success, except for Smokey Blue’s peach tea. May revisit that one. Tastes change over time, as we all discovered ;). Except Eisai Tea, pretty darn sure I will still dislike that one!!!
     

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    There were several teas I loved in commercial juices. Early on, I tried to make my own, with little success, except for Smokey Blue’s peach tea. May revisit that one. Tastes change over time, as we all discovered ;). Except Eisai Tea, pretty darn sure I will still dislike that one!!!
    That eisai tea was horrible sweet.
     

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    Toss this is, although I may have already asked several thousand posts ago...
    What equipment do you use for testing ? I am using the Achilles RDA mostly, and occasionally an RM2.

    I love the Achilles but only have one. I wish I had gotten more back then. I usually use geekvape ammit mtl rdas for flavor testing.
     

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    @hittman I’m going to work on a couple new tea recipes. If you want to give it another try you will have to pick up a small bottle of FA Black Tea.

    I’ll think about it. I don’t have anything on my wishlist right now.
     

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    Toss this is, although I may have already asked several thousand posts ago...
    What equipment do you use for testing ? I am using the Achilles RDA mostly, and occasionally an RM2.
    I use an entheon. Great for flavor testing. You can get a good clone for 10 bucks or so
     

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