Vegetable glycerin frustration!
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I pour my 64 oz VG to small bottles w/o a funnel and only loose one drop each time.
Thinner PG and nic is more challenging to pour cleanly.
Scale would be accurate.
A syringe w/o luer lock or needle will suck that VG fast; Need bottle neck bigger than syringe of course.
To improve accuracy, I fill syringe to 11ml if I need 10ml; stop transfer at 1 ml (11-1).
Thinner PG and nic is more challenging to pour cleanly.
Scale would be accurate.
A syringe w/o luer lock or needle will suck that VG fast; Need bottle neck bigger than syringe of course.
To improve accuracy, I fill syringe to 11ml if I need 10ml; stop transfer at 1 ml (11-1).
Warm it up and it will thin out making it easier to poor. But yes it is a pain trying to get that last 1 - 1.5 ml's out.
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Hope this thread helps others alike.
When using a syringe designed for a needle, without the needle, does it throw off the accuracy? I've always wondered this...which is why i use hypodermic needles to measure flavoring. I would assume using lower gauge needles to measure would result in less precision due to the liquid that lays in the needle tip.
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When using a syringe designed for a needle, without the needle, does it throw off the accuracy? I've always wondered this...which is why i use hypodermic needles to measure flavoring. I would assume using lower gauge needles to measure would result in less precision due to the liquid that lays in the needle tip.
I use mostly all vg. What's helped me is transferring the vg from the large container it comes in to a smaller, wide mouth, secure lid Tupperware container in amounts that I will use soon. I can easily use a syringe w/out a needle to pull up desired amounts with whatever syringe I want for measuring.
Do love the turkey baster though.
Do love the turkey baster though.
What is in the syringe is is exactly what comes out of the syringe. When you measure in 10ml into a syringe, you have 10ml + liquid in the needle. When you release what is in the syringe, you just release the 10ml...leaving that additional "+ liquid in the needle". Now if after you push the plunger down, if you pull it back and push the additional liquid out of the needle, you will have a smidge more than that 10ml that you measured. Make sense? I picture it better than I explain it
I use a large syringe with a cap on the end take out the plunger fill it to mark take off cap put plunger back in and plunge keeping it over the bottle this puts all the Vg when I wish it to go .
I mix 1250ml of bace at a time and this works for me .
I mix 1250ml of bace at a time and this works for me .
Wow I like the way you think! Very good point, if you get the point
I wonder how much fluid is in the needle. Have you measured in different size needles?Why don't you just buy a $5 bottle of pure VG from CVS. It is a 180 ML bottle filled to the top. Since the bottle is designed for VG to dispense easily there you go, instant 180 ML.
This is the easiest. Just don't use the needle and you can fill a 10ml syringe in less than 1 second.
The largest graduated cylinder I use is 100ml. I heat VG in a hot water bath in the kitchen sink to 110 degrees F. Flows like water then. Work quickly and accurately.
The other thing that helps is knowing how much VG will remain in a graduated cylinder when the VG and cylinder are at room temperature and the cylinder is held inverted for a set amount of time, say 15 seconds. This measurement only needs to be made once and noted for future use.
I'm using plastic graduated cylinders. I've read that VG flows from them faster than with glass.
The other thing that helps is knowing how much VG will remain in a graduated cylinder when the VG and cylinder are at room temperature and the cylinder is held inverted for a set amount of time, say 15 seconds. This measurement only needs to be made once and noted for future use.
I'm using plastic graduated cylinders. I've read that VG flows from them faster than with glass.
I'm sorry so don't take this the wrong way everyone but I've never herd so many crazy ways of getting thick fluid out of a bottle or syringe. There all good suggestions and will work but how complicated can it be?
Common sense would say warm it and pour it. If you get a ml or 2 extra it's not the end of the world just adjust.
Common sense would say warm it and pour it. If you get a ml or 2 extra it's not the end of the world just adjust.
Then I have to ask why would you need to cut it and what's wrong with warming it. you are not bringing it to a boil or heating it to extreme temperatures. Warming it to thin it is not going to damage it. It will also thicken again when it cools.
Mixing with warm VG is not going to affect any added PG, NIC or flavoring to any discernable degree or make it loose its potency or strength.
Mixing with warm VG is not going to affect any added PG, NIC or flavoring to any discernable degree or make it loose its potency or strength.
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