Welcome, Everyone.
This is your thread to chat about anything remotely DIY-related that might not fit into one or our other Weekly/Monthly threads or that you’re just not comfortable posting to the front page. If you’re a New Mixer check out the DIY Beginners Guide and the links below then feel free to ask about anything you’re still not clear on.
Current Weekly/Monthly threads (Archive of all weekly threads):
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Weekly ‘Suggest a Recipe for my Flavors’ Thread - You picked a bunch of flavors that either sounded good or were in recipes that looked good but now you want more ideas for what to do with them? Ask here and get suggestions.
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Weekly ‘What are you Vaping?’ Thread - Talk about the latest recipes you’ve mixed up whether they’re yours or someone else’s.
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Flavor of The Week - Every week the community gathers to discuss one flavor category and share recipes, notes, ideas, advice, pairings and more. After that the Noted crew (/u/ID10-T, /u/mlNikon & /u/CheebaSteeba) try as many flavors in that category as they can and discuss their impressions, opinions and notes.
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Throwback Thursday - The newest weekly thread/project to revamp and improve the resources in our sidebar with feedback from the community.
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FAQ Friday - Where I (and a few other contributors) tackle one Frequently Asked Question as comprehensively as possible.
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Monthly Recipe Thread - Share your recipes here with or without development notes.
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Monthly Clone Request Thread - Want a recipe or idea for how to mix your favorite commercial juice? This is the place to ask. Check out FAQ Friday: Clone Requests for some ideas on how best to ask and get closer to accomplishing your remix.
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Monthly Clone Challenge - A community driven effort to tackle one clone request at a time.
Highlights from last week:
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/u/VoopiesEliquid closed shop and was kind enough to release a few of their best selling recipes
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/u/akatash23 shared their clone of Naked's Brain Freeze
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Thanks to everyone who shared their experience Bull City's Vendor Review got over 30 reviews (please feel free to share your experience too)
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/u/PepperMyJabrill is helping to keep the Flavor Reviews alive with their latest review of EuroFlavor Vanilla Cheesecake
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All in all, not exactly the most exciting week. But coming up soon is Recipe of the Year so get hyped and start thinking about who you want to nominate! To help pick you can look back through the monthly recipe threads and about 8 months ago I started adding Front Page recipe posts to this google doc which now has over 70 recipes in it.
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It's so quiet in here...
Which vendor should I put up for review tomorrow?
I vote ECX. Can't wait to see all the "these motherfuckers stole my credit card!"
Well, they'll have to go on the chopping block eventually, might as well be tomorrow.
I did ask them about the situation and they assured me that it didn't happen on their end. I just placed an order with them using privacy.com so I'll be keeping an eye on that card to see if someone tries to use it.
I may have a tough request.
My SO finally quit dipping by using a myblu. I have vaped for years and diy all my juice and coils. Paying 10 bucks a pop for two pods is killing me.
He hates my setup.. To big and complicated (whhatever!), so I'm looking to get him into something else small so I can make the juice and coils. But alas, he claims he'd need this one flavor they make... Honey moon. I have a really hard time figuring out the flavor because it's so harsh. I can't even take one puff without coughing! He explained it as a honey and milk. I vape fruit flavors, so does anyone have any suggestions? Also... I'm old school apparently and am lost on what the difference is between nic salts and free base. I use free base.....so since he likes the pods would switching be a big change?
FLV Milk and Honey maybe? Or maybe FA Milk and TFA honey. Hard to be sure.
And yeah. Mixing freebase as strong S pods would be murder on the throat.
Get him a Warlock peas.
Thanks! I was hoping to go the other way.... Bring him to vaping free base so that I don't have to go out and buy nic salts too. I know how to mix fb and I'm not motivated to learn salts :). But thanks for the mod suggestion too. I'll look into it!
Well, the problem is that unless he's into pain, he'll need to either use a high-juice-consumption device with 3mg/ml or a pod with nic salts. Is he willing to taste-test several iterations of a recipe on your gear? You could mix without nic, then once you have a recipe he likes, increase the flavor by 30% or so (ie: multiply your percentages by 1.3) and use the nic salt base. Not really difficult.
Otherwise: what are you using that's "too big"?
If mixing for pod devices at high nic levels, you'll want nicotine salts. You'll also want those nicotine salts in a VG base. It's harder to mix with because it's thick, but you won't be able to get your VG percent over 50 in a finished juice with nic salts in a PG base. Most flavors are PG based as well and add to your PG content.
Thank you for the suggestion! So it sounds like nic salts will give a higher nic content. Hmm. I was trying to figure out how to get him happy on free base. Maybe I'll give something cheap a shot and if he doesn't bite... Break down and learn how to mix salts :)
Mixing with salts is basically the same as mixing with freebase. Mixing for pod systems is where the learning curve comes in. If you search alltheflavors.com for recipes that contain "pod" or "salt" you'll get a few recipes that will give you a good start on percentages and mixes to try.
Hey guys. Do y'all use nicotine when you make yourself a sample batch of a new flavor?
It varies by the individual. I do. Others don't. Nic will alter the taste of it's used, and since I use it in my mixes, I figure knowing what a flavor tastes like without nic doesn't help me.
Hey everyone. Sorry if this has been asked an answered. I'm new to vaping (6 weeks without a cig) and was about to start DIYing juice. Was wondering if anyone knew when Nic River will be having that mid December sale? Or if they will at all? Or any other vendor for that matter.
Just trying to save a buck... or more realistically get more for my buck since I'll prolly end up spending more than I intend to right now lol
Thank you in advance!
This was already asked in this very thread.
No. No one knows.
I'm new to DIY liquid. I wasnt sure if i should order my 100mg/ml nicotine in PG VG or 50/50. What do the experts suggest to start with? And what do the experts use?
I was thinking 50/50 since I will be making 3mg/ml, it would give me better control than straight PG
Hey guys I’ve been diy almost a year now and imo strawberry ripe tfa is one of the first flavors I like on its own. I had been using cap sweet strawberry the past year exclusively, but this ripe is nice and different, I mixed up a 5% tester and gave it a few days seems great and light doesn’t even need any sweetner, I might make a 30ml and add .5% dragon fruit. Anybody else feel that way about strawberry ripe
I'm not so keen on Strawberry Ripe. I mostly get pink/red fruit from it. More like the suggestion of a strawberry than an actual Strawberry. My favorites are JF Sweet Strawberry and Inawera Shisha Strawberry. FLV Alpine Strawberry is also pretty good used low in specific situations.
How was this not in the title for the grape FOTW? On a serious note, I never would have imagined I’d ever vape anything with grape in it, but so far it hasn’t been completely unenjoyable. Perhaps the tobaccos make it a little less icky.
/u/ID10-T has been known to take suggestions, I can't imagine he'd turn down a pun that good when the time comes ;)
Is that the grape swisher sweet?
Not quite. It’s a grape and pink guava tobacco. Not really shooting for a swisher or anything. Just picking the tobaccos that taste good with it.
What can i do to take the edge off a Lemon Lime mix?
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Hi folks, so I got 10ml concentrate of "generic" Lemon Lime, (I say generic because it was branded by "SuperVapeStore" a chain of stores in QLD, Australia) and it's definitely Lemon Limey, its actually quite nice, but its it's got quite a lot of "bite", like actual lemon and lime juice. I mixed it at 10% and I tried watering it down to 5% and it kind of helped but really it just made it watery...
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What would be the best thing to mix with it to make it more like "Pub Squash" or "Solo" (an Australian Softdrink)?
Hey everyone - would anyone be interested in buying any of my old/unused vape gear?
I have accumulated quite a lot, some of which has rarely/never been used and I would like it to go to someone who will appreciate it rather than going through ebay hell...
I am based in the UK, so probably best for UK vapers, but happy to ship wherever as long as costs are covered.
If anyone is interested I can provide a list.
Apologies if this post shouldn't be here; thought it might be useful. Happy to remove if required.
I might be interested (UK)
Cool! See list below:
Mod/Kit: £35 Innokin proton w/ kit RTA Smok devilkin w/ Smok TFV12 Prince (Black/Gunmetal and RBA) Vandyvape Athena Squonk mod with Athena RDA (Black)
Tank: Vandyvape Pyro 2 RDTA (SS) £15 District F5ve Layer Cake (SS) £30 Vapefly Mesh RDTA (SS) £20 Geekvape Medusa Reborn RDTA (SS) £15 Geekvape Zeus RTA (Black) £10 Geekvape Zeus 2 RTA (Black) £15 Vandy vape mesh RDA (Black) £15 Smok TFV12 Prince (Gunmetal/Black) with RBA £10 Smok TFV8 baby with RBA £10
I just got a Juul and I'm confused on how to mix for it.
Their site states 5% per volume. So if I were to make a 30ml bottle, do I choose 50mg nic in my calculator, or add nic as if were a flavoring at 5%?
You would use it as nicotine, as it's nicotine. Not a flavor.
I hope you're using salts and not freebase.
Yes, sir. Using salts. Doesn't seem to hit as hard nor is the flavor very prominent. Perhaps is should get my hands on some Benzoic Acid?
I'm going to get JC01 coils to see if it's better with just my recipes from the get go.
Anyone know when Nicotine River's sale will be? I'm holding out for it before I restock.
I'm going to be traveling internationally for 6 weeks pretty soon here and I don't want to take glass bottles on a plane so I need to get some plastic bottles for my juice. I see lots of people recommending all different types of bottles like unicorn and chubby gorilla and others and just wondering what people think is the "best". I'm looking at getting multiple 100ml bottles (only like 10 of them, I don't need hundreds) and right now I'm leaning towards LDPE Unicorn bottles but was just hoping for some input from you lovely people before I purchase them. The ones I specifically have in mind are these ones by 510 Central on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010XXBF66/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_UW8eCb4JBCRDY
Be aware of liquid bottle size restrictions. You may want to consider smaller bottles. 100ml is 3.33 oz.
Hi guys, i need a pineapple flavor from Purilum but i can't buy it, what would be the closes to it from this list?
- Pineapple SC (Real Flavors)
- Pineapple (Inawera)
- Pineapple (Lorann Oils)
Thank you
Pretty sure you're talking about Purilum Golden Pineapple, which was made to emulate Capella Golden Pineapple. Here's a review of Purilum Golden Pineapple and there are 17 more Pineapple reviews to compare it to in the Flavor Review wiki. Also you can check out the Flavor of the Week: Pineapple
Compiled a list of everything I think I'll need, still considering to cut some flavors such as the vanilla and coconut ones but these seem to be good standalone flavors and open up more possibilities.
Would appreciate any feedback really :). If there's anything I should add or remove, let me know!
Recipes (These are just some examples of the direction I plan to go in with the flavors I picked)
Peach Papaya Custard (by germ)
Pacha Mama - Peach Papaya Coconut Cream Clone
Taste Of Gods Clone
Tropical Breeze Clone
Flavors(10ml):
TFA Peach Juicy £ 1.50
TFA Papaya £ 1.50
TFA Bavarian Cream £ 1.50
TFA Coconut Extra £ 1.50
FLV Sweet Coconut £ 3.29
TFA Mango £ 1.50
CAP Golden Pineapple £ 2.00
INW Cactus £ 2.50
TFA Sweet Tea £ 1.50
CAP Super Sweet £ 2.50
TFA Koolada 10% £ 1.50
TFA Vanillin 10% PG £ 1.50
TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream £ 1.50
CAP Vanilla Bean Ice Cream £ 2.00
INW Eucalyptus Mint £ 2.50
PG(250ml) £ 4.01
VG(500ml) £ 7.00
Equipement:
50x CG 30ml(PET) € 14.47
50x CG 60ml(LDPE) € 18.91
100x Pipettes 3ml (LDPE) € 1.83
150x Sticker Labels € 0.75
1x Accuweight Scale 0.01/500 € 10.49
Nicotine:
1x Bottle 100ml (50mg/ml) € 16,77
Still looking at different options within the EU, so far all options had 15-20€ shipping fees.
Thanks in advance!
PS: the FOTW threads were an amazing source for me personally, so thanks to everyone contributing to those :)