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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 28, 2013 22:20:09 GMT
There has been much discussion as to using Deionized or distilled water for thinning etc. I would strongly suggest the use of "Pure Pharmaceutical Grade Lab Water" available from most chemists, etc. It is far superior to either of the aforementioned. I buy in bulk, but when I run short my local pharmacy sell me 5Ltrs for £5.00. I am sure they would do smaller quantities. Kev I was simply quoting what the vendor says on it's label above, however, in practical terms I am limited to whatever Tesco or Asda have on offer. This time it was Tesco and it was £1.50 for 2.5 ltrs. Thanks for the clarification though, I've been wondering about it a lot. There is much misleading stuff out there and it's hard to know what to think a lot of the time!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 28, 2013 17:50:20 GMT
I also put my own kit together. Iirc i got my nic base, syringes and gloves from Ltecigs PG, VG from Classikool on Ebay, also got 10ml bottles off Ebay for bigger mixes i use some baby bottles Did you find that Klassicool to be ok? I saw a few inconclusive opinions all over the web, but they were speculative as they had never actually tried it, however since you have had some I'd be interested to know how you found it to be if you would not mind sharing that info?
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 28, 2013 16:58:28 GMT
Is the pic off a pre mixed eliquid bottle ? AH because then I could understand the list of ingredients. If it is just flavouring, I don't understand there being VG, PG, nicotine ,DW and the like. Yes, I guess I did not make it clear enough, sorry! It was a now emptied bottle and I kept it so I knew what was in it. The flavouring only version which I also bought says a whole lot less on it sadly! It's a pretty odd flavour and not really anything like Old Holborn as I knew it, but I do like it very much, it's got something odd about it which I can't readily put my finger on. Partly flavour and partly smell. Sometimes a slight hint of something almost but not quite entirely citrus about it too. Not sharp, but citrus, like the difference between lime and key lime.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 28, 2013 15:32:21 GMT
I take it the photo is of a ready mixed juice from them? Yes, and so that is what I am aiming to replicate with the flavouring.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 28, 2013 14:38:06 GMT
Have you a link to where you bought the VG nicotine base Ancient Hermit ? It is not a nicotine base, it's a flavouring, however to cover all possibilities, here's a LINK for the regular e-juice when they sell it that way, and a LINK for the flavouring only version.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 28, 2013 14:20:14 GMT
Hi all, I rather like Rolling Holborn from eVape. Luckily they also sell the flavour concentrate. I bought some and have been having great fun mixing it with VG about 80%VG to 20% flavouring and still get good taste so I can guess that less than 20% will be right when I mix it for real, probably 10% or less at a guess, based on the experience so far. I've been tinkering with it while waiting for delivery of some other mixology supplies. Just getting the hang of cleanly handling the various bits of equipment and finding out about how the whole process really works instead of what the theory is like. Now I am a bit stumped; I took a shot of the label from a used up bottle of the stuff. It says 50/40 pg/vg mix. Then it lists other items; deionised water, nicotine and flavouring, which presumably make up the other 10%, and probably in descending order of content if I am lucky (at least I have always understood it was supposed to be listed that way). In all the recipes I have seen on forums so far no one ever described contents of a mix this way before. Here's the pic I took of the label. So, when I have all the other stuff in stock, how should I set about working out what to do percentages wise for my first trial mix? Should I just view it as being a 60/40 mix overall and take it from there? ??? There are no instructions for a suggested flavouring percentage to be found sadly.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 27, 2013 16:18:37 GMT
Well done sire! And I'll wish that you see many happy returns of this day!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 27, 2013 14:07:26 GMT
If you're in no rush, I can send you some nichrome wire and silica when I get back from my next expedition. I bought some for an octopus, but I hardly ever use it t.b.h. However, I am low on Kanthal, so can't help there. Thanks very much for that extremely kind offer; however, as I said in an earlier post in this thread, it was ordered yesterday and I understand it has already been dispatched. Hopefully it'll be here Monday, I'd expect so.
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 26, 2013 20:42:42 GMT
I was not going to buy one either and then this Vamo just fell in my shopping! LOL! Sadly I can't see my bank manager believing that somehow You have an actual bank manager? That's a bit upmarket!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 26, 2013 18:16:45 GMT
I definitely have Shinyitus, although I've somehow stopped myself from buying a mod so far. It's only been 3 weeks though, so I doubt I'll still be able to say that after 6 weeks. Anyone want to place any bets? This weekend if my journey so far has been anything to go by, I was not going to buy one either and then this Vamo just fell in my shopping! LOL!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 26, 2013 16:51:41 GMT
I'm actually not waiting on any vapemail . . . have nothing whatsoever on my radar. Some sort of admin oversight, or are you closed for stocktaking or something?
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 26, 2013 16:28:38 GMT
None, just wrap it flat and even and look for a wire with a similar ohm per meter as the one you are using now Thanks for the heads up! I'm off to dig a little deeper into this one I think!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 26, 2013 16:23:32 GMT
If you're coiling a silica attie then you'll notice no difference between kanthal or ni-chrome If you're wicking a genesis attie then kanthal all the way or better still kanthal ribbon wire. Interesting. What allowances should you make for the different form with that then?
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 26, 2013 16:21:40 GMT
Read a discussion on another forum with kanthal coming out on top Have you tried the meshcompany for kanthal as i bought some kanthal .20 there a couple of weeks back and cant speak highly enough of them(there on ebay also) I went for a look see over at The Mesh Company, and I have to say that once I have worked out which size of wire I want by getting the odd metre or two from regular vaping retailers and trying it, then that's the place where I plan to go, for quite a lot of whichever size it turns out to be! Thanks for the tip off on them, a truly great resource!
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Post by Ancient Hermit on Jul 26, 2013 13:33:58 GMT
I saw your original idea and all i had to hand was a rubber band so tried it last night and it works fine. I dont think i need to mention this to you hermit, but the one piece of advice i took top heart when i arrived on this forum was "keep absolutely everything! even down to little rubber caps from carts etc etc etc (as a fellow tinkerer its advice im glad i heeded now) You are so on the money with that; a week or three back, I had ordered some cartos (XL Boges) and somehow I was delivered of some that already had a hole in them. I was a bit bewildered as a newb wondering how to get the juice to not fall out, and then, bingo, the condoms they have when you get them! Just cut a sliver of that off and it's rubber band that goes around it, covering the offending hole, and it had to be the right size as that was where it came from to start with! I love moments like that, more or less live for them truth be told!
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