I'm going in

[clairea]

I have decided to start mixing my own for several several reasons, one is that I must be able to make cheaper than spending 20.00 every couple of weeks for my fav adv, for just 50 ml when I can get w kit f0r 27.00 that will give me a lot more liquid,
I ama crafter and think I will be good at mixing.
i can then taper my liquids up and down to suit my needs,
i had thoughts of giving up vapouring. But I can't see that happening I enjoy it to much plus it helps when I am in pain like smoking does esp if I get s big hit of nic. 

I like to read and research and have a bit of time on my hands at the moment so have been doing a lot of reading lately on mixing. 

If if anyone has a steamgunks twilight recipe that they are willing to share would be much appreciated, otherwise will have to play with different mixes to see if I mix something similar, I also want to slightly vary it anway.

i make soaps with causic soda so how much more difficult can mixing be?

[Tom]

I swear you quit vaping last month!

Welcome back to the light

Mixing is a peice of cake and I'm sure you'll take to it straight away.

Its great fun making mixes and altering them and tweaking and playing.

Also some of the one-shots out there are just superb

GL lady!

[clairea]

Mar 5, 2015 13:46:58 GMT Tom said:

I swear you quit vaping last month!

Welcome back to the light

Mixing is a peice of cake and I'm sure yuo'll take to it straight away.

Its great fun making mixes and altering them and tweaking and playing.

Also some of the one-shots out there are just superb

GL lady!

I said I was going to cut down and eventually hope to quit not that i had quit, but at mo i'm struggling even with cutting back and have gone back up in nicotine due to illness

[Pepperty]

I promise you clairea its not so hard

I'm absolutely remedial when it comes to maths, and I did worry at first ( I lose decimal points easily) but I've not had problems, I do a very loose calculation in my head -- helps when doing in 10mls and even numbers, I just total up the percentages and check its all making around 100% and theres the right basic mix of vg/pg (it normally is)

I now have a massive 200ml bottle of 60 vg to 40 pg at 10mg of nicotine ready for my one shot mixes (the likes of chefs vapours rebrand/pink spot/ t juice/ pixie juice) and if its 15% (T Juice) for example, I generally measure by eye --- its under a fifth of bottle --- then I pour in my ready made base, knowing i will end up with a 'sort of' 50/50 at around 8mg nicotine at about 20% flavouring......(flavourings are suspended in pg) and then im not handling concentrated nicotine and all i need is a measuring cup and an empty bottle. No fuss, faff or mess!

[b1mble]

The only bit you really need to be careful with is the nicotine. I find the easiest way is to work out how much nicotine I want in the final mix - I usually put it in first.

So if I want to make 10ml of 18mg/ml liquid I need 180mg of 72mg/ml nic. So it is two and a bit ml of nicotine. 180/72=2.5ml.

Or 30ml of 24mg - I need 720mg of nicotine which is 10ml of 72mg nic

Or 100ml of 4mg - I need 400mg of nicotine which is 5.55ml or 5.6ml in the real world.

The sums are easy that way.

[Tom]

Mar 5, 2015 16:18:03 GMT clairea said:

Mar 5, 2015 13:46:58 GMT Tom said:

I swear you quit vaping last month!

Welcome back to the light

Mixing is a peice of cake and I'm sure yuo'll take to it straight away.

Its great fun making mixes and altering them and tweaking and playing.

Also some of the one-shots out there are just superb

GL lady!

I said I was going to cut down and eventually hope to quit not that i had quit, but at mo i'm struggling even with cutting back and have gone back up in nicotine due to illness

you gotta do what you gotta do lady.

as long as your not back to the stinkies!

mixing is great for saving a bit of cash if thats what you're after.

[clairea]

i have bought myself the bronze kit from everythingvaping, just to start off with, i have bought some gloves, syringes i have plenty of needles anyway, i have some mixing cups from the hospital i saved my drug cups while i was in there i knew they would come in handy, plus i have some from my crafting, i have bought a shed load of concentrates, and a sonic cleaner i have loads of empty bottles that need cleaning,
i have some menthal crystals anyway
i need a sweetner but i'm diabetic so looking at stevia but need to know the best place to get the powder from if anyone can help
am i missing anything


The money I've spent on concentrates is less than my bottle of twilight i get every two weeks,  so eventually will be saving about £40.00 a month on ejuice,

[shez]

Nice one clairea. I got the Everything liquid kit as with the nic seemed reasonable. Did my 1st mix last Saturday and will sample later on my dripper.

[clairea]

oops i needed pipettes so just ordered some of them,
hopefully i will be happy mixing by middle of next week,

[shez]

I managed without pipettes.
Not sure what you use them for!

[clairea]

Mar 5, 2015 18:34:23 GMT shez said:

I managed without pipettes.
Not sure what you use them for!

There used as droppers

[Q]

You dont want to use the 'drop' method.
How big is a drop? depends on the size of the hole in the nozzle and can vary FAR too much, grab yourself some syringes its much more accurate

[spacey]

clairea re sweetner - I started off using Stevia (you can get it from Leisure Liquids already made up) but quickly realised it had a very strange after taste that sort of coats your throat when you vape it, even when just adding a tiny %. I've pretty much stopped adding any specific sweetner to my mixes now, as you work out which concentrates are already sweet and incorporate into a recipe - e.g Meringue, Brown Sugar extra, Marshmallow, Sweet Cream. I occasionally use a drop of EM in some things.

Have fun with it

[chykensa]

Like spacey, I now use Ethyl Maltol (EM) in my mixes for sweetening. It doesn't need much - I mixed some Custard to put away for steeping last night, 30ml and I used 10 drops of EM which will sweeten it considerably.

[clairea]

I am diabetic so need to be a bit careful on using sweetness Perpetua gave me some advice. I'm hoping that I won't need to add any sweeteners. But only mixing and playing around and tweaking will tell

I was hoping to start playing this weekend but have received some of the things i ordered inlcuding flavour concentrates just not th base kit, hoping that might come tomorrow as itching to start now.