Today's question is....cutting juice....

[motormadfrosty]

I have had a good look through the forum but can't see anything about "cutting" juice. Before I have a go at DIY'ing my own, I have just watched a youtube vid where a chap always buys the highest nic juice he can, then cuts it down with either pg/vg to reach the desired nic content then tops up the flavour, he claims that this doubles the amount of juice for only pennies more.

I appreciate that this only makes sense when you have found your all day'er, so my question is this, is it as simple as, for example-

I want 10mg nic juice, so buy 20mg in 100ml, do I then mix that 100ml with 100ml of pg or vg to get to 10mg nic? Obviously the flavour will be halved but I'm sure with trial and error and not much money it's possible to get that back by adding concentrated flavour.

Surely it's not that simple, it makes sense to me but am I missing something? If the above is correct, why aren't more people doing it, vendors don't charge more for more nic and pg/vg is relatively cheap compared to juice.

T.I.A
Frosty

[maccafan]

Yes it's that simple.

There are two calcs. One to reduce the nic content to required strength and the other to work out the pg/vg and flavouring ratio.

You can also buy unflavoured high nicotine base and add in flavours of your choice and make your own juice to save even more..

There are numerous calcs on the web to help you out. This one is fairly good as it also does ratios:

e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe.php

Just take basic safety precautions when handling and mixing juices cause high concentration nic bases can make you very ill or even kill you. So if you are unsure, stop, ask and proceed.

[Phoenix .]

May 30, 2012 10:10:56 GMT motormadfrosty said:

I have had a good look through the forum but can't see anything about "cutting" juice. Before I have a go at DIY'ing my own, I have just watched a youtube vid where a chap always buys the highest nic juice he can, then cuts it down with either pg/vg to reach the desired nic content then tops up the flavour, he claims that this doubles the amount of juice for only pennies more.

I appreciate that this only makes sense when you have found your all day'er, so my question is this, is it as simple as, for example-

I want 10mg nic juice, so buy 20mg in 100ml, do I then mix that 100ml with 100ml of pg or vg to get to 10mg nic? Obviously the flavour will be halved but I'm sure with trial and error and not much money it's possible to get that back by adding concentrated flavour.

Surely it's not that simple, it makes sense to me but am I missing something? If the above is correct, why aren't more people doing it, vendors don't charge more for more nic and pg/vg is relatively cheap compared to juice.

T.I.A
Frosty

go to the Questions for the Mathematically challenged thread, you will see some results on there.

[Batdragon (AKA Batty)]

wat they said lol

[jiggsbro]

May 30, 2012 10:10:56 GMT motormadfrosty said:

I want 10mg nic juice, so buy 20mg in 100ml, do I then mix that 100ml with 100ml of pg or vg to get to 10mg nic? Obviously the flavour will be halved but I'm sure with trial and error and not much money it's possible to get that back by adding concentrated flavour.

The original/required strength of flavour is going to have an impact, particularly at 100ml quantities. If the flavour is 10% of the mix, then cutting the 100ml with 100m of V/PG will give you 200ml of 10mg juice at half-flavour, but you'll need to add 10ml of flavour concentrate to get the same taste. That will dilute the nicotine strength again, because you'll now have 210ml of juice.