Random DIY mixing and More

[FranC]

Good morning. I am liking this Creamy Strawberry Malt. I do find it a bit weak though. My next try I am doubling the flavors just to see. It may be too much but we'll see. I'm finding that I'm OK with weak...not too bad whatsoever. But I used to vape unflavored all the time too.

I ordered the black Smoant Battlestar squonker and more mesh to get to free shipping at eciggity. I do not have a black squonker and it was so dang cheap! Plus you get a so-so rda as well. I loved the look of that gold and black of @Shadav 's yesterday. But I am also going to maybe paint the gold squonk pin black. We'll see.

I also mix nothing below 100 ml except maybe tobacco flavors which I'll do at 30 ml or 50 ml as testers. I mix by volume. My favorites I'll mix 200 ml in amber bottles and transfer 100 ml to a squeeze bottle for vaping. The rest sits in the cabinet. I've explained my process before. But I find it so easy and very quick. I think if I mixed at low amounts like 10 ml I'd probably use a scale as well. One thing I'm sure of...once someone finds their own technique it would be hard to change it up. I don't see me changing.

I'm also a non-steeper. Larger amounts will steep in the cabinet by design but I always SNV. My time is limited so I like to mix my favs in large amounts. Also, I am not picky and I think 30 years of smoking has scarred my taste buds so I can vape almost anything except floral. Any new weird flavors that I'm not sure of I'll probably mix small at first. But chocolates, creams, most fruits, vanillas, custards...I know there is nothing offensive there so I know I will vape it just fine. I can't discern subtle changes in recipes either. I like to just use everyone else's recipes. I don't have the time or desire to mix my own recipes. Yet.

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!

Wish I had tastebuds more like yours....LOL. Hey, if recipes you find work for you then why change?

 

[Koolkiz]

I'm not too picky with what I make for diy. However, certain brands of flavoring I'm allergic (allergic response) and have to be careful. I'm allergic to 99% of all perfumes (anaphylactic reaction). I have to be careful (I know I'm different). TFA and flavorwest caused the most adverse response. However, most citrus is off my list. I tried lemon this and that and finally know its a flavor to stay away. I stick to bakery, cereal and tobacco flavorants. I mix in 100mL and use syringes. It's easy for me. I won't change up to a scale. I don't need "more stuff".

I use to try recipes that had the numerous flavorings in it. Like 8 or above and found I lost interest in investing the time. I do simple recipes.

I loved Inawera tobacco absolutes but they are no longer available in the States. I'm too lazy to order direct and my bank won't let me purchase overseas.

 

[DavidOck]

Morning, all. Still smoky here, although still probably a lot less than further south.

Picture this. I’m going to mix a recipe with seven flavors. Seven small syringes, one for each flavor. Then I have to take the top off each bottle that the syringe won’t go through the dropper tip. So I get all my flavors added, add my premade base and then have to rinse out seven syringes and lay them out to dry. Or, I can put a bottle on the scale squirt my flavors in one at a time. Hit the tare button in between and add my base. No clean up. Unless you’re rinsing that one syringe in between adding each flavor then I don’t know how you’re not contaminating the flavor bottles.

Still volume in this lab ONE syringe per mix, no needle. Drip each flavor into the syringe, dispense into bottle. Top with "base", done. So clean up is one syringe per mix. Works for me.

 

[hittman]

Yes, thanks for telling me. It was in my junk folder which might be apropos.

I just got an email that mine is out for delivery today.

 

[hittman]

OK, now I see why you say mixing by volume wasn't as easy to you, as mixing by weight is. If I did it the way you described above, when I mix by volume...I might feel the same way, too. But, there are other ways to mix by volume that are much easier, not removing the tips on flavoring bottles, and without having to rinse a bunch of syringes. I see that markfm has his own way of doing it by volume, too, that works for him. I'll explain my method in another post.

I wasn't trying to criticize anyone's method. Whatever works for each person is the best. I do a lot of 10ml mixes when trying new recipes and mixing by volume was just too much work for me. Besides being a master procrastinator, I'm pretty lazy when it comes to cleaning. Thank goodness my wife isn't.

 

[englishmick]

Still volume in this lab ONE syringe per mix, no needle. Drip each flavor into the syringe, dispense into bottle. Top with "base", done. So clean up is one syringe per mix. Works for me.

I tried the drip into syringe technique. Problem I had with that is some of my flavorings are in regular bottles which you can't pour into syringes. Some have narrow spouts which are OK, some have thick spouts that won't fit into the end of a small syringe.

Tried scales too. Same problem with flavors in regular bottles, I kept overpouring.

Used syringes at first. Cleaning and drying the syringes took longer than the mixing. If I mixed a bunch of recipes in one go I would have 20 syringes to clean. And some flavors came in tall thin bottles where the syringe wouldn't reach the bottom of the bottle.

I use graduated cylinders now. 100ml for the base and 10ml for flavoring. Cylinders are really easy to clean. Downside is they aren't very accurate, but that doesn't bother me. Still have to use a 1ml syringe occasionally for small amounts if I'm doing small bottles of new recipes.

Amazing how many different techniques people use. Everyone finds the way that works best for them.

 

[*RJ*]

Morning, all. Still smoky here, although still probably a lot less than further south.



Still volume in this lab ONE syringe per mix, no needle. Drip each flavor into the syringe, dispense into bottle. Top with "base", done. So clean up is one syringe per mix. Works for me.

I do the same but I do have a large diameter needle. I keep the needle closed with my finger with plunger removed. I squeeze straight from the flavor bottle into the 60 ml syringe. I have all my flavors uncapped and in order of the recipe. First flavor say to the 3 ml mark, next flavor needing 2 ml I squeeze until it reaches 5 ml mark, next flavor needs 1 ml I squeeze to the 6 ml mark and so on and plunge everything all at once. VG done separately, same syringe. It's easy and quick to me.

 

[markfm]

I wasn't trying to criticize anyone's method. Whatever works for each person is the best. I do a lot of 10ml mixes when trying new recipes and mixing by volume was just too much work for me. Besides being a master procrastinator, I'm pretty lazy when it comes to cleaning. Thank goodness my wife isn't.

I definitely didn't take it as a critique [emoji3]

For small batches it's a coin flip, though as an OCD engineer if I used a scale I'd be spending time measuring each flavoring's density (since I think of % as a by volume thing).

 

[rosesense]

I just got an email that mine is out for delivery today.

That is weird. Let me know if it arrives. I think mine comes tomorrow.

 

[hittman]

That is weird. Let me know if it arrives. I think mine comes tomorrow.

I won't know until tonight when I get it off the porch. I have my DHL set up so that I put a signature in online so I don't have to sign for them. I get quite a bit of stuff via DHL for reviews and my wife isn't always home when the packages arrive.

Kind of weird but I got emails saying I have three packages delivered via USPS. Our mail never gets delivered until 2-3 at the earliest. My voopoo pnp rta was supposed to arrive today but it's been delayed.

 

[englishmick]

My flavor order from BCF is due Wed by Fedex. Pretty good since I ordered it Sat and chose the free shipping option.

I had a package delivered on Friday by UPS, not vaping stuff. I got an email with a link to the tracking deal where they show you a map of where the truck is. By the time I read it the truck was 3 blocks away. 2 minutes after that email there was another email saying delivery would be delayed and arrive Saturday.

 

[FranC]

I'm not too picky with what I make for diy. However, certain brands of flavoring I'm allergic (allergic response) and have to be careful. I'm allergic to 99% of all perfumes (anaphylactic reaction). I have to be careful (I know I'm different). TFA and flavorwest caused the most adverse response. However, most citrus is off my list. I tried lemon this and that and finally know its a flavor to stay away. I stick to bakery, cereal and tobacco flavorants. I mix in 100mL and use syringes. It's easy for me. I won't change up to a scale. I don't need "more stuff".

I use to try recipes that had the numerous flavorings in it. Like 8 or above and found I lost interest in investing the time. I do simple recipes.

I loved Inawera tobacco absolutes but they are no longer available in the States. I'm too lazy to order direct and my bank won't let me purchase overseas.

I love simple recipes too. Wondering if you've tried Stixx Nets?

 

[DavidOck]

So, in your area, are the blocks 100 miles each?

 

[Uncle]

Mornin' . . .

Well - I finally got something to contribute to the "More" conversation . . . I just learned the "Clearing House" finally got everything and the package of "Stuff" I ordered will be shipped later today . . . Should be here by this weekend . . .

Now all I have to wait for is Innokin to come out with the newer 1.2 oHm coil for the Sceptre . . . Just Sayin' . . .



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[barkfunklerbunk]

If i mixed like I cook, I wouldn't measure anything I was mixing by weight, but since my scale was left behind 2000 miles away I've reverted back to using syringes.. which either way works just fine for me. Using a scale was a lot less cleanup.. unless you spill a heap of VG on the scale.

 

[FranC]

@hittman The mesh coils have arrived. Thank you much

 

[FranC]

I think all I have coming now is my last Sourcemore order. It left HongKong on the 11th so should hit the US soon.

 

[*RJ*]

7 of my 9 orders are out for delivery. I wonder what my mailman thinks?

Batteries were just now delivered by UPS.

And son just informed me his gaming headset is coming today as well.

 

[NolaMel]

Good morning random folks Have you any plans today?

Catching up on this thread apparently, now that I got my errands run. Looks like the storm will miss us, thankfully. Really won’t know till tomorrow morning. I should sort through the recipe pile and pick six or so out. It’ll be yucky weather tomorrow , perfect for mixing.

 

[FranC]

Catching up on this thread apparently, now that I got my errands run. Looks like the storm will miss you, thankfully. Really won’t know till tomorrow morning. I should sort through the recipe pile and pick six or so out. It’ll be yucky weather tomorrow , perfect for mixing.

Pick some good ones