Okay so I've jumped into the DIY life with both feet.
After doing all my research I decided to take my 500 ml 100% nicotine and mix it with half VG, thereby doubling the amount to 1000 ml @ 50%, making it safer to work with. I thought it through very carefully and ordered everything I'd need. I went with 15 ml amber round bottles, not quite filled to the top and then I'd planned to bubble wrap them, put them in a safe metal box and freeze them. That way I can pull out a small amount to make juice as needed. I'm so amazingly brilliant (and humble)!
So, I get everything set up. Plastic down, safety gear on, double gloves, bottles all lined up, blah blah ad infinitum. After mixing the nicotine with the VG I separate 500 ml to put into the small jars and off I go for the next two hours, carefully filling little bottles. Super proud of myself as usual, I grab the lids that came with the bottles. They were in a separate bag but shipped in the box with the bottles.
OMG TOO BIG!!!
NOOOOO! So now my nic juice is getting all oxidized (overly dramatic much?) and it's nearly midnight and I've got no lids! So I ended up putting plastic wrap and tape on each bottle after cleaning the outside and drying, which took forever. Then I put them all in the metal box and put the box gently in the fridge with a "DO NOT TOUCH UPON CERTAIN DEATH!" note taped to it.
Then I proceeded to clean up my HazMat scene, after which I wrote a scathing e-mail to onlinevials.com telling them they better send someone to Sacramento via jet by noon tomorrow with the correct lids.
(we will see how that goes over.)
So babes, lesson for today;
TRY YOUR LIDS ON FIRST! DHO!!!
After doing all my research I decided to take my 500 ml 100% nicotine and mix it with half VG, thereby doubling the amount to 1000 ml @ 50%, making it safer to work with. I thought it through very carefully and ordered everything I'd need. I went with 15 ml amber round bottles, not quite filled to the top and then I'd planned to bubble wrap them, put them in a safe metal box and freeze them. That way I can pull out a small amount to make juice as needed. I'm so amazingly brilliant (and humble)!
So, I get everything set up. Plastic down, safety gear on, double gloves, bottles all lined up, blah blah ad infinitum. After mixing the nicotine with the VG I separate 500 ml to put into the small jars and off I go for the next two hours, carefully filling little bottles. Super proud of myself
as usual, I grab the lids that came with the bottles. They were in a separate bag but shipped in the box with the bottles.OMG TOO BIG!!!
NOOOOO! So now my nic juice is getting all oxidized (overly dramatic much?) and it's nearly midnight and I've got no lids! So I ended up putting plastic wrap and tape on each bottle after cleaning the outside and drying, which took forever. Then I put them all in the metal box and put the box gently in the fridge with a "DO NOT TOUCH UPON CERTAIN DEATH!" note taped to it.Then I proceeded to clean up my HazMat scene, after which I wrote a scathing e-mail to onlinevials.com telling them they better send someone to Sacramento via jet by noon tomorrow with the correct lids.
(we will see how that goes over.)So babes, lesson for today;
TRY YOUR LIDS ON FIRST!
DHO!!!
what can I say? It was late and I was whacked out. 
