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ZNinja

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So what if I bought a large bottle of 36 nic straight PG from a vendor. Then went to Wal mart and bought some cheap VG. Then I mix the 2 half an half and wind up with double the amount of 50pg/50vg 18 nic juice on the cheap. Of course that would also cut the flavor in half but this could be overcome with maximum extra flavor shots perhaps...am I chasing a unicorn here...?

Does this theory hold water or am I oversimplifying and missing something?

I feel like I'm either an evil genius or an idiot. Y'all tell me which LOL!
 

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This could work, but if I were you what I would do is try a small amount at first to see if it cuts down on flavor too much. What I've found when remixing juices is that the flavor is great the first day or two then after it sits for a couple of days it turns bland. So I'm thinking just mix into a smaller bottle what you would use in a day and see how that goes.
 

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I do that with menthol, it works perfectly (almost). Make sure whatever you are vaping it in can handle that much VG, I've had to remove a couple of top wicks from some clearos. You could also use less nic and less VG, I get 24 nic and add 1/3 VG.
I'm also not very picky with menthol, it all kind of tastes good enough for me, with very few exceptions. Menthol is my ADV because of my addiction to menthol cigs, and the added VG makes more vapor. I haven't done that when I drip my "good stuff", but since my ADV is more of a habit than for taste, I'm good to go using your method
 

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BTW, I got 36 nic straight PG from Quick Nic Juice, extra menthol, Ice cold or something like that. They haven't put that (or their regular menthol) on their site yet, just ask for extra menthol. Next time I'm going to do 30 or 24, so I don't have to screw around with my clearos. I'm pretty sure you could get the rest of their juice in 36 also, their customer service is top notch.
When I ordered my Vamo from fasttech, I also ordered a 100ml mint, seems like PG to me, that's the one that I throw the 1/3 VG in. Gonna be around for a while, like having 150ml
 
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So what if I bought a large bottle of 36 nic straight PG from a vendor. Then went to Wal mart and bought some cheap VG. Then I mix the 2 half an half and wind up with double the amount of 50pg/50vg 18 nic juice on the cheap. Of course that would also cut the flavor in half but this could be overcome with maximum extra flavor shots perhaps...am I chasing a unicorn here...?

Does this theory hold water or am I oversimplifying and missing something?

I feel like I'm either an evil genius or an idiot. Y'all tell me which LOL!

That'll work. Although flavor shots aren't concentrated the way that bottles of flavoring are so you will reduce flavoring somewhat. I don't like a lot of flavoring, so I'd be fine with that. You could always pick up a bottle of flavoring pretty cheap too.
 
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I've been looking at doing something similar. Ordering a large bottle of favorite ejuice in 12mg with a double or triple shot, and then cutting it in half with PG/VG blend. Although I've run across some juices where they are perfect with a double shot, so cutting those in half would mute the flavor far too much.
 

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Yep, pretty much what you do with unflavored nic. Also, if you have abottle of 80pg/20vg, you can make an equivalent amount of 20pg/80vg to mix and make it 50/50 with half the nic. I've done that for a bottle of NicQuid Sinthol that I could only get at 18mg...converted it from 60/40 to 50/50 @ 9mg. I'll also add straight WalMart VG to Dekang or Hangsen stuff that is 80% PG in order to make it thicker/sweeter with slightly lower nic...you lose some flavor, but I prefer lighter flavor from tobacco-based liquids.
 

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So what if I bought a large bottle of 36 nic straight PG from a vendor. Then went to Wal mart and bought some cheap VG. Then I mix the 2 half an half and wind up with double the amount of 50pg/50vg 18 nic juice on the cheap. Of course that would also cut the flavor in half but this could be overcome with maximum extra flavor shots perhaps...am I chasing a unicorn here...?

Does this theory hold water or am I oversimplifying and missing something?

I feel like I'm either an evil genius or an idiot. Y'all tell me which LOL!

This will work just fine. I agree with others to do a small amount first to see if the flavor dilution works. Like maybe 3 ml and 3 ml.
 

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That's how I got into DIY, cut some 46mg 100PG with Wal Mart VG, flavor was too weak but, since I had a ton of Watkins extracts (from a load of damaged freight my partner got to keep a whole palette of.) I used that to get the flavor back. (happened to be almond juice to start with and, I added vanilla and, a couple fo drops of liquid sucralose (use that as a diabetic safe tea sweetener anyway.) That was pretty good, so I decided to get the bases and play with my overstock of Watkins extracts.

Now, I DIY with several flavors and a couple of different vendor's stuff.
 
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