What Do You Use For ADV Mixing?

[Punk In Drublic]

Mixing is like sex. Do it behind a closed door, wash up afterward, and if the phone rings during, well, that's what voice mail is for.

Hmmm. Trying to apply that analogy to real life experiences. Lets see….bathroom stall, taxi, jacuzzi, lots of leather (not my idea but was open to the idea), lots of oil, toys, roll playing, sharing a prison cell with a nice fella named Tiny…there are many more.

So you saying because I mixed e-juice in the above scenarios I can have sex in the above scenarios as well? Learn something new every day.

 

[bombastinator]

Hmmm. Trying to apply that analogy to real life experiences. Lets see….bathroom stall, taxi, jacuzzi, lots of leather (not my idea but was open to the idea), lots of oil, toys, roll playing, sharing a prison cell with a nice fella named Tiny…there are many more.

So you saying because I mixed e-juice in the above scenarios I can have sex in the above scenarios as well? Learn something new every day.

 

[440BB]

Mixing is like sex. Do it behind a closed door, wash up afterward, and if the phone rings during, well, that's what voice mail is for.

...and is typically done alone.

 

[Brewdawg1181]

Like a couple of others here, I'm sloppy/lazy, or whatever. And I generally use single flavoring juice. I go thru just a little more than 2ml a day. My method wouldn't work for mad scientist complicated vape juice chefs.

I've marked my 30ml chubby gorillas to 15mg level with a sharpie (I'd originally measured with a syringe to know where to put the lines). So I squirt in nic to the line (I transfer my current nic to a large squirt bottle). I use about 2ml of flavoring, so I count in 100 or so drops (again, I'd already measured & counted about 50 drops per ml on the flavoring). Then Fill to near top with VG. Shake and write the flavor & date on the bottle. Did one this am, and it literally took about 2 min., and nothing to clean up. When a bottle is empty, I wipe off the date and refill & redate.

I don't like using bigger bottles, and with this method, it's just as fast to do multiple bottles at a time.

 

[akksnv]

Thank you, everyone, for all of the feedback! It's good to know some of the different ways others are mixing. It's also good to know about some of the things I might not have thought about (ex. a bigger batch might not be "good" or taste right after a while).

While the quick/sloppy/lazy methods sound nice (who doesn't like to save time?), I think I'm looking for a little more accuracy/consistency. Not that I'm a perfectionist/chemist/whatever and need the perfect flavor, I mainly want to keep my nicotine levels consistent.

So my next question becomes: any recommendations for a particular scale to use to mix by weight, and a price point to expect? After a quick search, I've seen them from $10 to $55+ but I know people have said to look for different things (delayed auto-off and/or AC adapter, accuracy to one-hundredth of a gram or better, etc.). I wasn't sure if there were some "industry standards" that a lot of people use or what. I don't love spending money haha so cheap is nice, but I also don't want something that isn't going to work when I'm almost out of juice.

Thanks again for all of the help and feedback!

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[smacuser]

So my next question becomes: any recommendations for a particular scale to use to mix by weight, and a price point to expect? After a quick search, I've seen them from $10 to $55+ but I know people have said to look for different things (delayed auto-off and/or AC adapter, accuracy to one-hundredth of a gram or better, etc.). I wasn't sure if there were some "industry standards" that a lot of people use or what. I don't love spending money haha so cheap is nice, but I also don't want something that isn't going to work when I'm almost out of juice.

There's a decent discussion a few threads down regarding scales. I cheaped out and bought a pocket scale on Amazon for $8. I'll use coins to check for accuracy. But, it has lasted over 3 years with the original batteries.

 

[Tabac man]

I by contrast am an extremely sloppy mixer. I generally mix 60ml Unicorn bottles and I do it by eye. I will first take 100mg/ml nic measured in a graduated cylinder, and mix up a 250ml squeeze bottle of 6 or 12mg base. Then when I make a 60ml unicorn bottle I first fill it about 1/10th full of flavoring (I generally use single flavors) and then fill the rest of the bottle with base from the 250ml squeeze bottle, and give it a really good shake.

This is about as sloppy as any method I’ve heard of. They get much much more persnickety. The majority of people serious about mixing around here seem to do it by weight.

I'm also in the sloppy camp. I mix a litre of base 50/50 vg/pg. From that I make 100ml bottles of single flavour mixes by just adding nic and flavour using syringes. I have the details scribbled on a piece of paper, usually found behind the micowave. I will mix 3 or 4 100ml batches in 5 minutes with another 5 minutes to clean up.

 

[AngeNZ]

Thank you, everyone, for all of the feedback! It's good to know some of the different ways others are mixing. It's also good to know about some of the things I might not have thought about (ex. a bigger batch might not be "good" or taste right after a while).

While the quick/sloppy/lazy methods sound nice (who doesn't like to save time?), I think I'm looking for a little more accuracy/consistency. Not that I'm a perfectionist/chemist/whatever and need the perfect flavor, I mainly want to keep my nicotine levels consistent.

So my next question becomes: any recommendations for a particular scale to use to mix by weight, and a price point to expect? After a quick search, I've seen them from $10 to $55+ but I know people have said to look for different things (delayed auto-off and/or AC adapter, accuracy to one-hundredth of a gram or better, etc.). I wasn't sure if there were some "industry standards" that a lot of people use or what. I don't love spending money haha so cheap is nice, but I also don't want something that isn't going to work when I'm almost out of juice.

Thanks again for all of the help and feedback!

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If you are in the USA this scale is the one a lot of mixers use. It goes down to 0.01g and comes with an ac adapter, so you don't have to rely on a battery

American Weigh Scales Pound LB Series Precision Digital Kitchen Weight Scale, Gray 500 x 0.01G

 

[kross8]

I mix 500 mls of concentrate,,,I draw out 10-12 mls at a time to put into my "in use" 100-120 ml bottle My vape habit is 30-50 mls a day depending on what I'm doing.

(Most days I don't use nicotine,,,but when I do I don't put it in the mix until I'm filling up the 100-120 ml bottle.)

 

[Sloth Tonight]

I mix by weight in 240ml bottles, once every other week or so. Takes me 5 minutes or less since I no longer use flavors at all. I have my VG and PG in liter-sized condiment squeeze bottles, and my nic is kept in a 30ml squeeze bottle. Makes it easy to just drip my ingredients into the 240ml bottle I'm mixing in, wham, bam, done, moving on with my life.

 

[Tabac man]

That's proper sloth mixing.

 

[CublalaLand]

lol. I'm with the 'easy approach'. I make mine in liquor bottles, without nic. Since nic is the only ingredient that really degrades much, I also don't add any until I move it from those into 100ml gorillas and add 10ml of 100mg nic. Takes all the math and measuring out and turns everything into guesswork, apocrypha, and conjecture...perfect.

 

[bombastinator]

I mix by weight in 240ml bottles, once every other week or so. Takes me 5 minutes or less since I no longer use flavors at all. I have my VG and PG in liter-sized condiment squeeze bottles, and my nic is kept in a 30ml squeeze bottle. Makes it easy to just drip my ingredients into the 240ml bottle I'm mixing in, wham, bam, done, moving on with my life.

One thing to watch out for in condiment squeeze bottles: they can have loose tops.

The issue is the ones designed for food service are supposed to be stored with plastic wrap over the thread and the top screwed on top of that. This means manufacturers often design extra slop into the thread connection and the result is the whole top can pop off under too much pressure. A bit of Teflon tape or a rubber band or something may be necessary to take up this extra space.

 

[CublalaLand]

bombastinator, your intimate knowledge of condiments and their containers makes me think you could write a novel about pickle relish. Maybe even a series, like 'A Game of Cloves'.

 

[bombastinator]

bombastinator, your intimate knowledge of condiments and their containers makes me think you could write a novel about pickle relish. Maybe even a series, like 'A Game of Cloves'.

It’s pretty common knowledge. Anyone who’s ever done food service in the USA and dealt with such containers would know it. Plus I learned the hard way by buying squeeze bottles who’s tops came off (biiig mess) and then going to find out why.

 

[mountaingal]

I use a 300ml plastic beaker and have marked it where the different liquids go. So, I then mix it with a small beverage electric mixer for 5 mins. That way it doesn't need to steep. I just use a 1% caramel in it. I'm at 22mg/ml and 80pg/20vg. It makes about 240ml and last a few weeks. I keep it in a dark cool place in 30ml pastic drip bottles. I make the next batch when I have about 4 30ml bottles left.

 

[Tabac man]

This thread is serious advanced vaping, unlike that other thread where they argue about scales measuring to a millionth of a gram. Posers the lot of 'em.

 

[GOMuniEsq]

Bulk PG and VG is in 1L bottles, with some in 100mL plastic dropper bottles for convenience.
Most of the nic stays in the freezer, and I keep a small amount at room temperature in a glass dropper bottle for convenience.

Place clean 250mL beaker on LB-501 digital scale.
Pull up a recipe in JuiceCalculator listing all ingredients by weight.
Select target nic and target volume.
Shake nic and flavor bottles.
Carefully measure nic, flavors, PG, DW, then top it off with VG.
Click Make Recipe in JuiceCalculator so amounts are deducted from my inventory.
Glance at Total Cost and feel smug.
Stir with glass rod until thoroughly combined.
Pour into 30mL or 60mL plastic dropper bottles and label.
Rinse beaker and stir rod.
Done in 10 minutes.

 

[Sloth Tonight]

One thing to watch out for in condiment squeeze bottles: they can have loose tops.

The issue is the ones designed for food service are supposed to be stored with plastic wrap over the thread and the top screwed on top of that. This means manufacturers often design extra slop into the thread connection and the result is the whole top can pop off under too much pressure. A bit of Teflon tape or a rubber band or something may be necessary to take up this extra space.

One time over the course of maybe 3 years has a top come loose on me. It was because I had over-tightened it, funny enough.

 

[bombastinator]

One time over the course of maybe 3 years has a top come loose on me. It was because I had over-tightened it, funny enough.

Yours fit better than mine then.