Steeping Times and an Ultrasonic Cleaner Part III

[rowdyplace]

bobalex -

Once again, you have outdone yourself. I love your works of art (and, i'm sure, love).

Another source for your "material" could be my new favorite spot on the internet:

Old Movies, Black and White Movies <-- free old movies -on demand - for our enjoyment.

Keep these coming!!

 

[bobalex]

Hey rowdyplace - What A Great Site! I should get back to work ... naaah ... not today.

 

[SlickWilly]

Bob,

That was a great video! I love the Walking Dead music (big fan!) but I'm stumped on where I've seen the "coming attractions" part. It was either at a drive-in or from a 60's porn flicks.... But then again it could have been a porn flick at a drive in LoL.

Interesting idea's on the water mix, I'm looking forward to what you find. Another thought I had today while watching a commercial for those flavored concentrates you squirt in your water, if a guy was to come up with a steeped concentrated flavor you could just add to unflavored nic liquid and vape right away, I think he'd have a good seller! Hmm... maybe I just gave away a million dollar idea

 

[bobalex]

Hey SlickWilly - That coming attractions was in Every Single Theater in Santa Barbara in the 60's-70's. I thought it was just a dim memory until I saw Grindhouse in 2007. Then when it came out on DVD ... snip ... and now it resides in Bob's Big Collection of Clips.

 

[Heabob]

Had a thought yesterday, I may have missed it being talked about in the last 150 pages, if this is a repeat question please forgive me. While steeping using either the heat or UC, would it be a faster steep time using either straight VG or PG? Then once that is steeped you would complete your VG/PG ratio mixing afterwords?

When I first moved from the little gas station e-cigs to a clearomizer a few years ago the availability of e-juice and shops selling it were limited and I could not find a juice that didn't have a solvent taste and was vapable so I went to vaping an unflavored mix of 75% PG - 25% VG. It wasn't until six months ago when I found a local shop that lets you sample juice that I started vaping flavors again and for me they are all too strong. I cut all my flavored juice with the unflavored mix at 1/3 flavored to 2/3 unflavored, shake it up and vap it right away, steeping my cuts does not improve the flavor at all. To my surprise, cutting the flavors by 2/3 doesn't really reduce the flavor drastically, maybe by 40-50%. I also get a lot more bang for my buck on the store bought flavors.

While I was cutting a new bottle of Uncle Junk's Jon Wayne last night the light bulb lit and I started to wonder if steeping in straight PG would be quicker because it's thinner.

I've found the higher the VG, the more time it takes for blending.
And/or, the higher the flavorings % the more time it takes.
Heating has a higher impact on VG than PG for reducing steep time.
Just my own observations YMMV.

 

[buffaloguy]

I would tend to agree with Heabob. VG does need more of a push. However a caveat here is if you are using a high percentage of distilled water in your juice. Many times for example Ill use a super concentrate in an alc base at say 4% and then 16% distilled water to make an 80%vg/20% everything else juice.

In these cases for simple mixes you wont notice that VG takes any longer than PG to fuse. My unscientific experience tells me if you have more than say 10% distilled water in your VG mix it will mimic the results of a high PG juice easily as far as flavor blending goes.

 

[Heabob]

I would tend to agree with Heabob. VG does need more of a push. However a caveat here is if you are using a high percentage of distilled water in your juice. Many times for example Ill use a super concentrate in an alc base at say 4% and then 16% distilled water to make an 80%vg/20% everything else juice.

In these cases for simple mixes you wont notice that VG takes any longer than PG to fuse. My unscientific experience tells me if you have more than say 10% distilled water in your VG mix it will mimic the results of a high PG juice easily as far as flavor blending goes.

Yes, forgot to mention DW does help the blending process, good catch...

 

[bobalex]

One:

100% VG thinned with 7% distilled water water (with nic and flavor) took almost 6 hours in my UC to completely mature. The end result was pretty good. Waaaaaaay more vapor (of course) but the flavor and TH were not diminished as I thought might happen. I'll share why I've become a 100% VG guy in a later post. Got to get my notes in a coherent shape.

Two:

Finished my last (for awhile) video:



This is my fave so far. The Mini Lambo is feature-rich but doesn't weigh me down.

More later ...

 

[rowdyplace]

bobalex-

I want one of these - Lrider's MIni Lambo!

You prior videos have entertained me. Well done, good taste, fun to watch...but (product) not for me. I am a simple minded die hard Ego battery and Kanger T3 kind of guy. It works for me, I like it, leave me alone with those exotic toys.

This video of yours communicated with me - I want one. I believe your predictions are gonna be right-on!

Are they available in the US? Where? When?

Quick, answer this while I still have a little money to blow...this month.

 

[bobalex]

bobalex-

I want one of these - Lrider's MIni Lambo!

You prior videos have entertained me. Well done, good taste, fun to watch...but (product) not for me. I am a simple minded die hard Ego battery and Kanger T3 kind of guy. It works for me, I like it, leave me alone with those exotic toys.

This video of yours communicated with me - I want one. I believe your predictions are gonna be right-on!

Are they available in the US? Where? When?

Quick, answer this while I still have a little money to blow...this month.

Hey rowdyplace - I just did a quick Google:

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I could steer you to Canadian vendors because that's where I am. $57.95 seems a little high. The same kit up here:

L-RIDER MINI LAMBO is only $39.00.

I'm expecting a list of U.S. vendors from Lrider sometime tomorrow. Hang on until then.

It really is a nice piece of gear. For someone like me with geezer-eyes, the easy to read screen is waaaaaaay better than the impossible to see Twist numbers. And it fits in my pocket without dragging my shirt down. As soon as VV became affordable with the Twist/Spinner/E-Max Twist, I thought vaping couldn't get any better. Once you find your "sweet spot" it's real tough to go back to non-VV vaping. Like impossible. The Mini Lambo is definitely in my pocket these days.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming ...

 

[bobalex]

Hey rowdyplace - Just sent you a PM to avoid too much topic drift.

Cheers.

 

[PumPPimP]

Hello all.
Im curreently steeping ultrasonically the following

Dire Wolf Bites
Red Lady
Snake Oil
Squid Ink
Swedish Fish
about 7ml in 10 ml glass bottles
max temp 50 degrees Celsius.
basket off floor of cleaner
I think that covers it!

 

[MotherNatural]

Did I miss the nicotine testing results somewhere?

 

[PumPPimP]

Did I miss the nicotine testing results somewhere?

i did. What was the aim of the test? i read earlier in thread thread about nic degredation at various temperatures. Is that the test you are referring to?

 

[MotherNatural]

Yes. Mike was testing for degradation. Were the results posted in a different thread or did I just miss it?

 

[PumPPimP]

i think in the last 50 pages it said nic got 10% degredation over 50 degrees c?

 

[PumPPimP]

found it. post 1249 on page 125 by mikepetro

 

[MotherNatural]

oh, you're awesome, PPPP. Apparently I missed it. Thanks for taking the time to locate it.

 

[rowdyplace]

found it. post 1249 on page 125 by mikepetro

I'm impressed!! That took some effort to dig out that buried "pearl of wisdom" and then share it. Seriously, That was good!!

Actually, that post begins another pursuit of knowledge by MikeP. He is setting up a controlled test to check the effect of heat over time on nicotine. It is more complex than this, but...Stay tuned for further details...

 

[PumPPimP]

NO Problem, everyone has really helped me every time i ask a question to the teething problems i am having. glad to have the opportunity to pass it on!