I mentioned this in another thread recently, but my first foray into juicemaking involved buying a 1dram bottle of LorAnn cinnamon oil from a local baking shop. I dripped it straight, undiluted, mixed with no nicotine...just the flavoring by itself...down a paperclip onto my blue-foamed cartomizer.

That was like 5 years ago. I still remember...

>I will never run out of juice!

I headed out to work last night and realized I only had one almost empty bottle of juice to take with me. I just spent the last hour or so remaking about 4oz of juice for me and my wife. That should hold us over for a while...

>My friends will come running for some of my amazing free juice!

A few did, and at $10 per 30ml it's a great deal. What I didn't expect is for the local vape shops to convince them that DIY juice is bad for them compared to theirs.

"But you watched me make it and you SAW exactly what went in it"

"Yea but they said that the flavorings you used were bad."

"IT'S THE SAME FUCKING SHIT THEY USE!"

I spend more money on retail juice than ever. Mostly to try to get a taste of various popular mixes and see if I can figure out what they're using.

I thought more was better. If its good at 5% it will be awesome at 10% and incredible at 15%. wrong. I learned the hard way

That there would be less vape mail. I was only ordering juice before. Now it's flavours, bottles, PG/VG, nicotine, a scale, more bottles, more flavours etc.

You need to steep it. I shake and vape EVERYTHING.

> I will never run out of juice!

I'm guilty of this. Having enough materials to make a half-liter of juice != having a half-liter of juice.

When I first started tinkering with the idea of DIY, i thought a heated hot plate with magnetic stirrer was required.

That I'd bang out a good mix right off the bat. Hahahahaha*sob*

I thought /u/wilciws (the guy that got me into DIY) was some sort of wizard, before I got into it and realized how fun and easy it is.

I figured that juices that tasted muted were because the juice companies were cheap and skimping on the flavoring! Took me way too long to admit my error.

• I would need a fortune in equipment
• I would love everything I made

"It will save you money". I may have but I'm too scared to total this all up to know the truth. In fairness it's entirely by choice and of my own doing. I'm always go big or go home and this turned out to be no different. I will break even soon enough though and then it's almost free after that.

Completely agree with you on the mixing by weight thing. It seemed so complicated vs mixing by volume. First, it was well I'll just get accurate measurements with an assortment of syringes. Well, VG doesn't always like to cooperate with syringes, and it turns out they are a pain in the ass to keep cleaning. So I thought, "Ah, I know, I'll get a funnel and some graduated cylinders. Sure enough, that's a pain in the ass too and you still end up using the damn syringes. Then the numbers on the syringes started wiping off. Then I started reading posts like "Hey, which of these flavors will eat my syringes.... Fuck it, I'm buying a scale.

Everything is so much easier now. No cleanup. I usually buy my flavors in 4oz bottles and transfer them to 120ml amber dropper bottles. My PG/VG/VG-nic all goes in capped picnic/diner-style ketchup and mustard bottles. Fast, easy, clean, and accurate. Anyone still screwing around with syringes, I implore you to make the switch

Is it better to use weight instead of volume to measure in large amounts?

Right now im making 30ml by volume

Thought I would be another /u/fizzmustard, /u/botboy141, or /u/redbic inside of three or four weeks... Although hard for me to admit...

I was wrong!

My biggest mistake was buying a DIY "kit." A scale, VG, Nicotine, and flavoring is all you need to get started.

I thought that I would need some linear algebra or some higher mathematics to crunch the numbers. Little did I know that they have calculators in apps and you can factor in specific weights and all that jazz.

mixing by volume will be a pain. it's not. i mix by the liter (for personal use), it takes 15 minutes and i clean 5 syringes afterwards.

Probably when I ordered the ingredients to make this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/25qqky/ive_got_something_close_bombies_nana_cream_clone/?ref=search_posts

Thinking I was going to be fucking swimming in Nana Cream, when in reality it was exactly nothing like it.

That it would be easy :( It's so not. I do not enjoy making it but I use sub ohm and juice is too expensive in Canada.

I have more juice than I know what to do with, TBH. I have dozens of bottles in my closet, half gone, of God knows what. Lol

I heard that 100mg nicotine was so toxic and you have to be so careful mixing juice bc of it. Pretty much that if touched it was gonna burn ur hand off! Wtf? Also that when mixing you have to have a good venting system otherwise when u inhale the fumes of flavors and nicotine it could make you sick! Lol!

That it would be super complicated (just making recipes, not coming up with my own).