Start up cost for Diy

[martinc]

...as soon as I stopped sucking on that sweet absinthe i made....omg...that one I like so much i`m checking out hom many toots i can take off of my new 1100mah battery w/o a charge...i`m up to 1060

 

[Cardslinger]

After reading these replys, I have a question?? If I want to start making say 100 ml's of E-juice @18mg 80/20 mix how many ml's of PG & VG should I get & how much Nicjuice?
Also, what would you use if you just want to "SWEETEN" up a flavor?

 

[martinc]

Correct me if I am wrong people but would that be:

50ml of 36mg nic
40ml PG
10ml VG

Not counting flavoring and sweetener?

 

[martinc]

Correct me if I am wrong people but would that be:

50ml of 36mg nic
40ml PG
10ml VG

Not counting flavoring and sweetener?

Then with say 10% sweetener and say 5% flavoring would be:

50ml of 36 nic juice
34ml of PG
8.5ml of VG
15ml of sweetener
5ml of flavoring

Am I getting this right?

 

[Str8V8ping]

Correct me if I am wrong people but would that be:

50ml of 36mg nic
40ml PG
10ml VG

Not counting flavoring and sweetener?

- maybe around 20ml on that for flavoring . Yup 20ml of flavoring .Need to buy the big bottles of flavoring .

 

[martinc]

So with 20% flavoring:

50ml of 36mg nic juice
10ml PG
5ml PG
20ml flavoring
15ml sweetener

Unsweetened

50ml of 36mg nic
20ml flavor
24ml PG
6ml VG

For a target of 18mg nic juice

 

[martinc]

20ml of flavor seems to be pretty large no?

And I use sucralose from TFA

 

[martinc]

- maybe around 20ml on that for flavoring . Yup 20ml of flavoring .Need to buy the big bottles of flavoring .

10-4 on that,I am still searching for the ones I like with small botles,then I will upgrade to bigger

 

[Str8V8ping]

Well 20% flavoring would be max pretty much .Depends on what your recipe calls for . Use Breakru's Ejuicemeup calculator . I doubt you will want 15ml of sweetener .More like 1-2ml of sweetener .

 

[markfm]

Many flavorings are already plenty sweet.

 

[martinc]

But the calculations are right,right?

 

[markfm]

50% of 36mg/ml nic will indeed end up at 18mg/ml.

The mix of flavors and sweeteners is up to individual taste. I often go around 20% total flavoring but never add sweetener, as the flavorings I use tend to have appropriate sweetness to start with.

 

[Blaisun]

My main problem is the ready-made recipe you can find here and there;



Then there is the "drops" mention;drops from what,the dropper bottles,pipettes,what?

I end up checking ml and % and make guesstimates.

the way that i deal with those recipes are use the drops as ratios.

i will mix up the flavoring portion first...if the recipe calls for

10 drops flavor X
5 drops flavor Y
5 drops flavor Z

i would mix up a 2ML batch of just flavoring like this:
1ml flavor X
0.5 ml flavor Y
0.5 ml flavor Z
then i shake the @#$%^# out of the bottle then put it in a glass of hot water until the water is room temp (~30mins), dry off the bottle, and label it.

I have found i like most of my juice with 10-20% flavor, so i go with 4 ML 75/25 PG (3ml)/VG(1ml) mix 0 nic and add 1ml of the flavor mixed above, shake, heat/steep, and test.... add more of the premixed flavor as required.......

and most importantly, make notes of what you have done so successes can be repeated and repeat failures avoided.

this is what works for me, but as you gain experience, you will find a method that works for you!

 

[markfm]

Drops can be a PITA, just that sometimes it's convenient for the person coming up with the mix. I've used exactly one TPA dropper since I first started DIY, use it just for tobacco absolute diluted. I haven't bothered to check it against my high accuracy graduated cylinder, though I'll likely get around to it sooner or later.