Nic storage, will these glass bottles be OK in freezer?

[boyofford]

Hi all,

My 250ml of nic is still sat in plastic bottle, at work in desk.

Know I need to put in freezer, and in glass bottles, but will these bottles be ok www.ampulla.co.uk/Shop-For-Glass/Amber-Glass-Sirop-Bottles/30ml-Amber-Glass-Sirop-Bottle-&-28mm-Medilock-Cap/p-169-196-1075/ ?

Just wondering if will be ok in freezer and not break?
Off to get lockable moneybox to put them in before transfer to freezer.

Guessing 30ml will be good for storing this sort of quanity as wil be able to get to bottom of bottle with syringe ok.

[Ron]

www.ampulla.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=1083&strPageHistory=related

I use these as 100mls is a good size to have about without decanting.

[boyofford]

Thanks Ron, so you can get the syringe to the bottom ok?

Also worried knocking over 30ml would be a big cleanup job but 100ml! and the waste!

Do you find them ok to lie on side? i.e. with no leakage?

[giles]

I use the same type of bottle from ampulla in 250ml, but I had two litres. The 250ml I'm currently using doesn't live in the freezer. I reckon it's OK in a cool dark place, and my grandkids aren't big enough for me to need a lockbox.

[Balllsy]

Apparently Nicotine doesn't freeze so no need to worry about it expanding and cracking glass bottles. I haven't got around to freezing mine yet.

[Perpetua]

Dec 19, 2013 2:08:52 GMT Balllsy said:

Apparently Nicotine doesn't freeze so no need to worry about it expanding and cracking glass bottles. I haven't got around to freezing mine yet.

Indeed it doesn't, just thickens. Although I'd try and have any bottles standing upright, to avoid any possible seepage.

It's simple enough once the bottles have returned to room temperature to turn them upside down in a jug or some such get the last dregs out or warm the bottle slightly to make any remaining liquid more runny and easier to extract.

[Ron]

Dec 19, 2013 1:15:01 GMT boyofford said:

Thanks Ron, so you can get the syringe to the bottom ok?

Also worried knocking over 30ml would be a big cleanup job but 100ml! and the waste!

Do you find them ok to lie on side? i.e. with no leakage?

Without sounding trite if you are going to knock over a three inch high bottle with a 1.5 inch base should you be handling nicotine

[bones3]

sorry to go off topic everyone

but has anyone tried to freeze nic in plastic bottles??

as i have just took delivery of 2ltrs of 72mg (£123 delivered BARGAIN!!)

[DiscoDes]

Dec 19, 2013 13:23:10 GMT bones3 said:

sorry to go off topic everyone

but has anyone tried to freeze nic in plastic bottles??

as i have just took delivery of 2ltrs of 72mg (£123 delivered BARGAIN!!)

I have a Plastic 1 litre bottle of base sat in the bottom draw of my freezer.

[Ron]

The current thinking is that the plastic can leech a taint to the nic liquid but it is too soon to know

[boyofford]

Dec 19, 2013 12:45:46 GMT Ron said:

Dec 19, 2013 1:15:01 GMT boyofford said:

Thanks Ron, so you can get the syringe to the bottom ok?

Also worried knocking over 30ml would be a big cleanup job but 100ml! and the waste!

Do you find them ok to lie on side? i.e. with no leakage?

Without sounding trite if you are going to knock over a three inch high bottle with a 1.5 inch base should you be handling nicotine

lol, your right, it wont happen!

Got some foam around at work, might make myself a little bottle holder so nothing gets knocked over, just in case.

[Super-Shiny]

I have about 2.5 litres of Nic base in the freezer in 250ml glass bottles and i keep a 250ml glass bottle of nic base and a 100ml glass bottle of nic base in the fridge.

All i do is use the 100ml bottle of nic base out of the fridge for mixing and top it up with the 250ml in the fridge when it runs low, i do it this way as i don't really want to knock over a 250ml bottle.

When the 250ml of nic base in the fridge has run out i just get one out of the freezer and replace so i always have a continuous top up of the 100ml bottle.

[Greg]

I've got 19 100ml glass bottles of nic base in the spare freezer and 1 100ml bottle in the mixing room

[Perpetua]

Dec 19, 2013 13:23:10 GMT bones3 said:

sorry to go off topic everyone

but has anyone tried to freeze nic in plastic bottles??

as i have just took delivery of 2ltrs of 72mg (£123 delivered BARGAIN!!)

It freezes fine in plastic bottles and is ok for the short term, up to two years in plastic bones3 . . . over that length of time then the generally accepted view is that glass is a better option. I'm happy to go along with that, as I think after spending out on nic base for long term future use, then a few more pennies spent on some glass bottles is a sensible investment.

[monty]

There's not that much difference between the temperature in the freezer and the fridge so either will do. The important thing is to fill them brim full - oxygen will react with the nic over time so the less air at the top of the bottle the better.

ps if you fill your atty with a syringe these are the dinkiest bottles for your juice.