Steeping Times and an Ultrasonic Cleaner Part III

[Scope666]

@jperfect - Glad we could help you.

My bad...I forgot to thank the Godfather and Head Geek of UC steeping and that would be Professor bobalex.
Thank you sir for a very valuable and indispensable series of threads and of course also thanks to the vets.

Yea, good thoughts on the rubbers I mean rubber bands. LOL Learned about these from the ladies bling thread and just ordered these colored rubber bands from:

Neon 3 16" Medium 3 5 oz Orthodontic Elastic Braces Dental Rubber Bands | eBay


@Scope666 - Yep! I'm vaping it as I type this. The draw is a milder/lighter Tribeca plus the subdued zesty kinda sweet of Voodoo. About balanced between the two for my buds. It still has a good TH and is always in my rotation.

75% Tribeca
25% Voodoo

Then into the sauna for an hour or two. Both components were already about 80% mature via the UC sauna for fours hours each.

(instead of Tribeca) - I've also tested this mix with TFA RY4 double without the AP drop since that NUT would get lost in this mix. Yum. Enjoy

Thanks, going to try that!

 

[Steve803]

I suggest to use 1 dram Glass vials.
Buy on eBay for cheapest price and super fast delivery.
I found that using plastic bottles takes way more time to UC.
Also you can easily clean glass...not so if plastic.
Glass is the key for really fast steeping.
Cheers

Just an update on the glassware I thought I would order...I was shopping at the grocery store and it occurred to me that I might be able to save time and money by using baby food jars to steep my mixes in. I can fit [Edit] eight of the tall glass jars upright into the UC I got at Harbor Freight with a minimal amount of water and it worked great.

 

[john333]

I've been using my US for several months since starting DIY. I mostly mix 10 or 15 ml in 15ml glass bottles. My routine is about 10 eight minutes cycles. Do some shaking between cycles. After that I let them steep another 3 days or so. Not a complete steep but good enough for me. So here's my question. I use a cooking thermometer to check the water temperature. If it gets over 110 degrees I leave the lid open so heat can escape. Do I need to do that? Is there a magic temp I don't want to go over? I realize its probably been asked many times but with 70 pages thought someone could just chime in. TIA

 

[Mowgli]

I've been using my US for several months since starting DIY. I mostly mix 10 or 15 ml in 15ml glass bottles. My routine is about 10 eight minutes cycles. Do some shaking between cycles. After that I let them steep another 3 days or so. Not a complete steep but good enough for me. So here's my question. I use a cooking thermometer to check the water temperature. If it gets over 110 degrees I leave the lid open so heat can escape. Do I need to do that? Is there a magic temp I don't want to go over? I realize its probably been asked many times but with 70 pages thought someone could just chime in. TIA

The quick answer is 125F

 

[Hoggy]

I've always liked Grand Ultrasonic Cleaner Experiment or GUCE for short. Probably because I made it up.

UGH! I can't believe I finally got through ALL 69 pages! Took a week, but I finally made it.

Anyhow..

I like the acronym a lot, but I propose to change the last letter to stand for "Enfuser".. Made up word, but at this point it's much more than an experiment now.

Grand Ultrasonic Cleaner Enfusing(/Enfuser).

Something like that.

 

[dannyv45]

Just an update on the glassware I thought I would order...I was shopping at the grocery store and it occurred to me that I might be able to save time and money by using baby food jars to steep my mixes in. I can fit [Edit] eight of the tall glass jars upright into the UC I got at Harbor Freight with a minimal amount of water and it worked great.

That is a great idea and I've herd others use baby food jars with great success.

 

[Steve803]

That is a great idea and I've herd others use baby food jars with great success.

Thanks Danny. Didn't need the baby food at all, Yuk, but the jars worked great. The large ones hold more the 60 ml of juice so I can make some decent batches at one time. I numbered the caps and wrote down the flavors and all pertinent info on a separate paper to help keep track of the contents.

This has been an awesome thread for helping me perfect my DIY e-juice recipes. Thank you all for the helpful information.

 

[Hoggy]

Thanks Danny. Didn't need the baby food at all, Yuk, but the jars worked great. The large ones hold more the 60 ml of juice so I can make some decent batches at one time. I numbered the caps and wrote down the flavors and all pertinent info on a separate paper to help keep track of the contents.

This has been an awesome thread for helping me perfect my DIY e-juice recipes. Thank you all for the helpful information.

AWESOME! I've been stumped on exactly how to deal with the labeling, even if was originally going to use plastic squeeze bottles. I didn't want to pay ~$12 for a whole case of only one-size of glass bottle (nor the crazy shipping charges from a place like Specialty Bottles), and those flasks might have been a little large for my small UC. ... I got baby food jars on my shopping list now! Going to give the contents to my dog.

Only thing that still sucks though, is with the glass, I'll have to use the plastic basket it came with to keep the jars from sitting on the bottom. So I don't know what would be worse: using the basket with glass baby food jars, or using no basket with the floating plastic squeeze bottles from Fasttech.

 

[mikepetro]

The basket will not absorb, or deaden, nearly as much ultrasonic energy as those plastic bottles would. In those bottles you are more/less insulating the juice from the energy. The basket absorbs some, but still lets a lot of energy through.

ps: a 100ml flask will fit in almost any UC.

 

[dannyv45]

Only thing that still sucks though, is with the glass, I'll have to use the plastic basket it came with to keep the jars from sitting on the bottom. So I don't know what would be worse: using the basket with glass baby food jars, or using no basket with the floating plastic squeeze bottles from Fasttech.

I use the plastic basket with all the steeping I do. I based my recommended times with it. I've steeped with and without it and did not notice much of a time difference with or without it.

Read my blog on steeping for more info and hints on UC steeping.

[h=4]Everything you wanted to know about steeping and then some.[/h]

 

[Mowgli]

Congratz on the 6 months smoke-free Danny! Thanks for all the UC input.

 

[dannyv45]

Congratz on the 6 months smoke-free Danny! Thanks for all the UC input.

Thank you. After 45 years of smoking this is a mile stone in my life. I'll never go back.

And I just want to congratulate you as well on your 6 months and 1 day.

 

[michaelsil1]

I'm laughing at money saved!

 

[dannyv45]

That's a serious chunk of change.

at 8.00 a pack a day for 180 days that's 1440.00 for me

 

[michaelsil1]

That's a serious chunk of change.

Yes it is, but how much have you spent on Vaping Supplies?

 

[dannyv45]

Yes it is, but how much have you spent on Vaping Supplies?

600.00 to 700.00 which includes the initial layout. Going forward it will be much cheaper being that I got more then I need and can now put the brakes on spending. There is always a flavor you want to try but now I have to use a little restraint on my spending. Still in the long run it's way cheaper then an iron lung.

 

[Mowgli]

Yes it is, but how much have you spent on Vaping Supplies?

I've spent much less than I vaped.
I have 3 Vamos, 7 evods, 2 protanks, a Vision Victory 5ml tank, 40 spare coils (works on all 3), liter of 100mg and 3/4 liter 60mg in freezer, 29 flavors 4oz bottles from Flavor West, about 40 lil flavoring bottles from MBV, about a liter of MBV juice, another liter of my DIY, 5 MBV t-shirts, a JWrap t-shirt, spare ego setups, enough AW & Panasonic 18350 & 18650, bought a new pair of double soled ring boots and got my 2 old pairs resoled.
I'm still hundreds of $$ in the black.

EDIT - I almost forgot to include my UC I got over 3 months ago that I use 45 minute cycles:

 

[michaelsil1]

I smoked three packs a day and I'm in the Red

 

[dannyv45]

I smoked three packs a day and I'm in the Red

Although your in the red your still ahead. The savings on your health is priceless.

 

[Scope666]

although your in the red your still ahead. The savings on your health is priceless.

^^^^^^^^ this