For gosh sake, don't spin it like a centrifuge. All that's going to do is separate it into its components. It'll do a real good job, though.
Whip steeping?
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I mix in 30 mL batches or greater these days and froth in a 200 mL beaker but I don't see why it wouldn't work for smaller batches.
Some people use the small portable milk frothers for coffee or the ultrasonic eewlry cleaners. I heat steep mine take it up to 180f. in a small crock pot fill with a dry transfer medium and then let it cool to room temp. back to 180 and cool again seems to do it for me.
I use a cheap milk frother. It's easy to mix up 10ml in the bottom of a glass tumbler - the longer the tumbler the better. A minutes frothing gives you a milky liquid that'll clear up to transparent after 10 or 15 minutes standing - it'll also fill the room with the smell of whatever you're mixing. I then use a syringe to move it from the tumbler to a bottle.
I've only started brewing my own e-liquids, so can't say whether e.g. one of these:
Microbrush® Applicators - Lee Valley Tools
chucked into a variable-speed Dremel is ideal. But it sure seems to work. Small enough to shove down the throat of a 10ml bottle & beat it to a froth, long enough to reach the bottom of a 60ml bottle & do the same, stiff enough not to flail around like a dying snake.
Just make sure the bottles aren't full to the brim or you'll have e-liquid everywhere. And shake up the rest as usual.
If you need to REALLY shake up a full bottle, try taping it to the blade of a variable-speed Sawzall, or better yet try a pair of bottles, one on either side of the blade to balance the load. Don't try this with a single-speed saw!
Oh yeah, and make sure the lids are on tight...
Happy mixing!
Microbrush® Applicators - Lee Valley Tools
chucked into a variable-speed Dremel is ideal. But it sure seems to work. Small enough to shove down the throat of a 10ml bottle & beat it to a froth, long enough to reach the bottom of a 60ml bottle & do the same, stiff enough not to flail around like a dying snake.
Just make sure the bottles aren't full to the brim or you'll have e-liquid everywhere. And shake up the rest as usual.
If you need to REALLY shake up a full bottle, try taping it to the blade of a variable-speed Sawzall, or better yet try a pair of bottles, one on either side of the blade to balance the load. Don't try this with a single-speed saw!
Oh yeah, and make sure the lids are on tight...
Happy mixing!
I whipped a new bottle of 555 for a friend at work, and he thought it was an entirely different juice. He commented that it had a much better taste and more enjoyable to vape. Now I have to make a whipper for him.
All of you need to know that if you mix/spin in clockwise direction, mixing happens.
But if you run the device COUNTER clockwise, it separates EVERTHING into its original components.
Jes' kiddin!
Asked a painter friend if it worked that way with paint and he just looked me in disgust.
But if you run the device COUNTER clockwise, it separates EVERTHING into its original components.
Jes' kiddin!
Asked a painter friend if it worked that way with paint and he just looked me in disgust.
What do chemists use to mix and blend liquids? A magnetic mixer. Here's one I diy'd for 6 bucks. Just a slow spin overnight is all that is needed and you are done. This is the best method of mixing liquids I have found. Set it and forget it. New mixers are stupid expensive for what they are, but if you are handy you can make one of these with scrap parts in an evening. I'm making another one, I just got my speed control off ebay for $3.59 free ship. Just waiting to spy a junk computer on the side of the road.
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I must be going for overkill. I heat it then mix with a drill and cotter key with 2 small flat washers on the end till it's frothy then put it in a ultrasonic cleaner.
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