So far ive just been measuring with a 30 ml granulated cylinder, but its not quite precise enough to mix recipes with a lot of flavors at small percents
Try this -> Essential Equipment from the DIY Wiki
good scale AWS LB 501 scale
drip tip bottles
solid surface
spare bottles
PPE, gloves, goggles, etc
Why wear gloves?
best practice, its a safety measure that is expected when dealing with chemicals. Yes, you probably don't need it, but I don't know you well enough for assumptions to say that you won't pour it all over yourself or to pour the bottle of nicotine directly into mouth or eye.
Depends.. some prefer the ability to be careless while mixing.
I prefer to be careful and rely on not pouring chemicals all over myself. It works as well... But then I could disarm mercury switches and such,. Others can't. You know yourself you know if you need safety equipment.
I do not wear goggles or gloves. It’s probably smart to wear gloves I just don’t. Goggles, LOOL, I think is going a little overboard but to each their own ...;)
LOOL gloves and Goggles? Really now? You telling me you wear goggles and gloves when making juice?
nic river has a pretty great starter kit, but since you seem like you are already mixing I would suggest looking into mixing by weight rather than mixing by volume.
the lb-501 is probably the most popular. good capacity for large batches, but still accurate down to .01 g's. You can mix right in the bottle and cut out a lot of other steps.
A scale above all.
Ldpe bottles. Pg, vg, nicotine. A few flavors.
That's all you really need. But to move on to mixing by weight all you'll need is a scale since you've probably already got the rest.
Why is mixing by weight better? I've been just measuring percentage of juice to get the 70/30 ratio and the correct percentage of flavor
Pretty much what everyone else has said.
You can be way more accurate in your mixes. Some flavors are vastly different even in small measurements. syringes are for the most part accurate but it's incomparable to weight.
there's no problem with cross contamination. some flavors 'stain' plastics, so to speak. with mixing by weight you just use the bottle the flavor came in to dispense it into the bottle you're mixing in.
Mixing by weight is as simple as mixing inside the bottle you plan on filling your tank with.
Plus, buying new syringes can be eventually expensive. or at the very least it's an additional expense you can avoid entirely by mixing by weight.
Buy PG and VG separately, but buy more VG. More bottles than you think you need, a scale, pipettes are fine when bottles don't have fine droppers (usually 60ml+). Stick to 30ml flavors for first- so long as you still mix by weight. Shake extracts, base, nic, all before measurements, agitate bottles frequently daily to greatly accelerate steep. Stick to 3 flavor recipes and don't fall for the hype of most high rating flavors with way too many flavors.