Well done bro, I've been mixing my own juice for 5 years and have saved a fortune. One thing that helped me mix batches A LOT quicker is buying a set of digital scales. If you decide you're going to always mix your own from now on they're a MUST!
Why is it better than a syringe? Just waiting on my first order rn
Simpler. Quicker. Less clean up.
I also question the accuracy of syringes. I used syringes when I first started and found after a while that the markings were rubbing off (PITA when you're in the middle of the mix). Then I realized that the blunt needles held some liquid and made my measurements wrong (hard to measure 0.5 ml when there is 0.2 ml in the tip). Measuring by weight and you're getting to within 1/100th of a gram.
The oral syringes I'd gotten from Walmart are not that accurate. The first .1 mL mark, it holds 9 drops, while next mL only took 5 drops to reach. This was using a PG-based concentrate and through a quick, dirty sampling of one time. The 5 mL is probably more accurate.... but won't say it's going to be a lot more so.
If you mix larger batches (20 to 50 mL), then the accuracy isn't quite as critical until you mix up 5 or 10mL test batches. Main thing with syringes is that you keep notes on how much you use.. based on the markings and using the same or very similar syringes.
It's just so much quicker, work out how much of each flavour you need, squeeze it in what you neef and put the cap back on. If you're mixing complex flavours (+5) it can be slow cleaning your syringe each time, then if you have your nic in VG it's an arse ache trying to pull what you need into the syringe as it doesn't flow properly. Trust me, a half decent set of digital scales from Amazon which can read 0.1 g increments is all you need and are relatively cheap.
I just got a scale and tried using it. It reads to 0.01 G. The problem I'm having is using it for small mixes. I'm just starting out so I'm mixing 15ml bottles to test recipes. Do I need to buy another scale that can read lower? Also, what's the best way to find out what the weight is per ingredient? I didn't want to waste 1mg each just to get a weight. Besides, that'd take forever with the 80 flavors I have currently.
That's so much flavor for never having made juice and never having tried a flavor before. You shouldn't need to wait for a steep for that though.
My first batch of blue raspberry. Can’t wait to see how I did in a few days. 70/30 vg/pg 6nic 8%flavor as close as I could get to each. https://i.imgur.com/Jm1q41T.jpg
You don't need to wait for a single flavor fruit. Shake it and vape it.
Edit: why in the fuck would you buy a 500ml of a flavor you've never used?
Thanks for the advice I just heard you were supposed to wait.
Hahaha I knew that would come up. I bought the giant bottle of flavor online like an hour after trump announced the supposed “flavor ban” scare and I figured I could live with blue razz for a while if we would never have flavors again and I could daily that. Total impulse buy. But then I had it and figured I might as well buy the rest of the ingredients to make my own juice since I had 500 fucking Ml of flavor. I got some other ones too.
There are flavors that take longer to perfectly mix than other flavors.
Custards, in particular, need "steeping" time, where you give it a few days and shake it periodically during that time.
Fruits almost never need any real steeping time, and even with custards, I have found that it isn't appreciably different if I just shake and vape, vs letting it steep.
Steeping is almost unheard of for straight fruits. FA Lemon Pledge can need a couple hours, (if you used enough for it to taste like pledge) to fade to reasonable levels. And a couple days to vanish completely. Better to sub INW Lemon Mix at half the percentage in almost every case.
But many other juices need time. I know any number of florals that need several days at least. Tobaccos that need weeks. DX/V2 flavors that need months minimum. You'll find some flavors can be vaped without much change from overnight to multiple days, but by no means is steeping never a issue.
That's gonna be a bit high.
as a single flavor mix with FW blue raspberry?
Nah, might even need to bump it up, depending on what device/wattage he's using
I use graduated beakers to make my juices. Easy for me, quick and easy clean up. I buy a gallon of pg/vg at a time, so it's easy to pour etc too.