Do I need alot of materials to be able to make it myself ie beakers and stuff or is it pretty easy -- where do you get the flavorings and nicotine juices ?
I'm new to DIY too, maybe some other guys with more experience will chime in. It's not that hard just start with some simple recipes (1-3 flavors) and keep accurate notes of your mixes.
I started with a 1ml, 3ml and 10ml syringe; a 14ga, 16ga and 18ga blunt tip; unflavored nic liquid, a funnel, couple of disposable pipettes, 0mg PG, 0mg VG, empty juice bottles (if you need them) and a gallon of distilled water (grocery store) for cleaning syringes. I got all my supplies and TFA flavors from Wizard Labs.
The strength of nic liquid you'll need depends on what mg nic and PG/VG ratio you prefer to vape... I vape higher %VG juices at 18mg nic or lower. I don't want to mess with mixing with the dangerous high nic liquid so I start with 24mg nic unflavored VG, add PG based flavors and a little 0mg nic PG if needed to end up with a ~75% VG 18mg nic juice.
For small samples I mix a 30ml bottle of 75% 24mg VG, 25% 0mg PG to use for a base (25PG/75VG, 18mg base liquid). Then I add flavors which is usually ~15-20% and I end up with a >50% VG, <18mg nic juice which is fine for me on 3ml samples to tweak flavor %'s on a recipe.
**I recommend you not to use high mg unflavored nic liquid, it's dangerous. You can read some of the cautions and guidelines in the Stickies in the DIY section. Just a heads-up if you haven't read them already.
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