Dude I'm about to blow your fucking mind.
Mind = blown
Haha I like it, but I won't be stretching to buy it. I have three syringes set up like that and over 500 glass pipettes (Buying in bulk they cost less than $0.05 each). If they break or I can't clean them well, I just throw them in the bin.
Why not recycle?
I think his method is a bit easier to clean. It's a pipette, you can't beat that for cleanliness, even if the syringe itself is glass.
When you clean a syringe, you need to clean two things- the syringe and the stopper.
I have rubber bands snapped around my flavor bottles, then jam a 1ml syringe between the rubber band and bottle. I keep the same syringe with each flavor, so I don't need to wash flavors out of anything. It costs a bit, as you have to get a syringe for each flavor you have, but what a time-saver it is to not have to wash after each mixing session.
How do you measure? And what's the rubber part from?
I measure as you would when you normally use the syringe. If I want 0.5mL, I draw the syringe up to the 0.5mL mark, and 0.5mL of fluid is drawn into the glass pipette.
The rubber part is a pipette bulb that I cut in half.
Interesting! Besides being better for tank cracker flavors like banana for example, what are the benefits of this?
Since I have hundreds of glass pipettes, going from one flavor to another is as simple as removing one pipette and putting another on. The main advantage for me though is that glass pipettes are easy to clean. Flavors stick behind on plastic, but with a little soap glass gets completely clean.
nah, switched to mixing by weight and will never go back to volume.
I can mix much faster with this setup, and when mixing for personal use there's no need since I am using a 1mL syringe that has 0.01mL graduations.
Mixing by weight uses digital scales, and is much more accurate(as well as consistent regardless of how the recipe is written). However, if you're happy with your mixes, keep on trucking.
Mixing by volume is much more accurate than mixing by weight -- if you have the proper tools.
I think /u/WakeAndVape should jump on eBay and pick up a set of Gilson Pipetman pipetters -- you'll never go back to syringes and you won't have to ever deal with the issues of mixing by weight.
Once I acquired the Pipetman tools, my life changed for the better. Other than where the hell I can store 20,000 disposable pipetter tips lol.
I have a 0.001 scale and I have tried mixing on it. I may use it in the future if I ever start using flavorings at <0.5% but as of now that's just not necessary. I have had awesome consistency even making just 10mL at a time. This method is much faster when I want to go to my drawers and just mix up a single bottle.
I use one of these with a plastic pipette tip and a hand pump. This allows me to use one glass pipette for all the flavors, I just change the tip for every flavor. I clean and re-use the glass pipette.