Dipped my toes into DIY today

[snow]

Thanks to a lot of help and suggestions from members I went ahead and ordered some premixed base liquid from Juice Cabin 70/30 6mg and a couple of syringes and dispensing needles together with a bottle of Capella Banana Split as well as ordering the Monkey Brek concentrate from nomnomz and my soft mint from joose juice. I might be away for a few days so decided I may as well mix a few different bottles up and they can get on with steeping. 

So firstly - the suggestion of the premixed liquid was a life saver - as I predicted cackhanded nelly here made a right old mess gawd knows how I'd have got on with pure nicotine    I'm also glad I did buy the dispensing needles as I had thought I'd be able to pop the top of the syringe over the needle tip on the concentrates bottles like I do for my dogs medication not realising they would be the same flipping size ( mess #1).  I also didn't realise that a high VG base would backfire up the bottle unless you can get it farther down inside with the needle (mess #2) also the base came in a wide neck bottle which is great except without a long needle you end up dipping the entire syringe into the mix or at least I did (mess #3 & #4) so having cleaned up the mess  I started on the "mixing". 

I now have 30 ml soft mint @ 30%  I buy it premade at 20% stronger than usual so figured 30% seemed about right based on the assumption standard would be around 25% and then 20% of 25% would be 5% total = 30%  so I went with 21ml base mix and 9ml flavour.

I've made up 10 ml of Monkey Brek @ 25% - which is standard then a further 10 ml of Monkey Brek @ 30%  and another 10ml at 35% 

I also mixed 10 ml of the Banana Split which I assumed would also be @ 25% and then another 10ml @ 30% 

and then I decided to try mixing things up a bit and made 10ml with 25% Monkey Brek and 5% Banana Split 

So thats 7 bottles of juice all set to steep for a while - hopefully some of it will be vapeable 

[Greg]

Well done snow

The more you do it the less you'll spill

[Perpetua]

Have faith snow . . . .

Like most things, practise helps as does learning from any small mistakes - none of us were born with the knowledge about anything.

I never ever use needles must admit, preferring to use a 1ml syringe and just popping the tops off my concentrate bottles to get at the contents - likewise with Nic Base. If it's a bit difficult to handle, then pop the bottle into a jug of warm water, that helps the viscosity.

Or just decant a small amount into a dish and syringe up from there.

Enjoy the results of your DIY . . . . the Soft Mint won't take long before you can test it.

[Karma]

Well done snow

I'm a bit messy too so tend to favour pre mixed base. I freeze the stronger stuff in case of a zombie apocalypse.

A tip given to me that I always try to remember is to only have one bottle open at a time. It does make it more faffy but I'm quite clumsy so I'm sure it's saved me from many a clean up job x

[tsoko]

Welcome to the world of Diy'ing

[Bobsbeer]

If you haven't already got a copy, download E Juice Me Up from - www.ejuice.breaktru.com/ Great little application and even better it's free. I don't mix without it. Doesn't stop messes though.

[shez]

Gosh snow you like your juices strong

[Deleted]

Well done on taking your first steps into the world of diy snow
As said above it will become easier as you get used to it

[snow]

Apr 5, 2016 17:11:59 GMT shez said:

Gosh snow you like your juices strong

Yeah I do shez not sure if its the way I vape but whenever I see people saying they have tons and tons of flavour from x juice and I try it I end up going umm yeah okaaaay nice but a bit light on the flavour for me - I also vape pure menthol @ 20% stronger so around 30% is my guess which is why I favour a lot of juices I can ask for extra flavour shots or extra strength mixes, it may well turn out that 35% will be too strong or even 30% might skew the monkey brek from yummy to iccckkkk but if that happens I'll fiddle about and try and cut the flavour with some plain base. I tend to get "dialed in" with some flavours which is why I always have 5 tanks with different flavours in on the go at the same time so as to try and keep the old taste buds on their game lol