"Mix your own" thread.

So far i've had no success

I get my base liquids from Alba Vapours in the uk and my flavours from Inawera.
So far i've tried 50/50 and now i'm trying to get something working in about 70/30.
The Alchemists cupboard has a few recipies on it so give them a shot and see what happens or try your own. It is kinda like mix and match and hope for the best but you never know the first juice you mix could be the best juice you've ever tried.
Dont think the popular flavours come in concentrate as everyone would make it and the original mixer would stop making money off of it.
Never bought any sweetener but it could help.
My current mix i mixed in a 10 ml bottle and it's been stepping about a week. I wouldnt make any more then that as if its a bogey mix then you're down however much you made.

DirtyBollox wrote: »

So far i've had no success

Dont think the popular flavours come in concentrate as everyone would make it and the original mixer would stop making money off of it

Sorry to hear of your non success Things will get better, I promise

One of the very few pre-made brands which have a (full) range of concentrates are Mom n Pops, available here http://www.leisureliquids.com/
L/L are also now selling the original Mom n Pops too, wonder how that'll fare...

Oddly enough not everyone would want to make their own, not even to save the extra money, they couldn't be bothered with the faffing
- P Busardo (of all people) doesn't. Personally, I have all the gear but have yet to dabble - I saw a YouTube the other night and yer man made it look so easy, we shall see...

I'm thinking bout building up a massive great stockpile of nic and concentrates for when The Day arrives - enough to make about three years' worth and during that time I can think about giving up vaping - of course I'm sure there'll be some other way to obtain pre-made juice but I'm gonna have my stash anyway - beautifully housed in its' own WARDROBE!

best advice i can give..is mix on a digital scales...1ml is 1gramme...people usually go wrong with the drops method..which is so inacurate..these scales are cheap and i mix 100mls at a time..which is enough for me..just sit the bottle on a piece of kitchen roll and zero the scales..dont get juice on the scales as it will render it unuseable!

Syringes with 20gauge needles cost next to nothing and don't get rendered useless when juice drops on them

In a lot of pharmacies, yes.

I've been mixing my own juice for a few months now with great success.

I've got concentrates from a few different suppliers, my pg I get on ebay from 'mineral waters ltd' their shop is down till the 15 th Aug so unable to post a link. My VG I get from local chemists. I first started using nic from bargain vapours but now get it from the states a litre at a go.I have some em crystals i use as a sweetner, these are dissolved in pg.Loads of different size syringes and large gauge needles and all my empty bottles from when I bought juice.I got a load of amber glass bottles from a supplier in Wiclow that I decant and store my nic in..

I use a very simple calculator app on my phone, here's a screen snap of a 2 ml sample,I only do 2 mls at a time when trying new receipes, this is ample to try in a dripper to test. If its muck, only pennies wasted. If its nice its very easy to mix up larger batches using the calc.

Scuse the huge photo, I've not really mastered/can't be arsed resizing.

The easiest way I've found when trying multiple mixes is to just make up my base, vg / pg / nic at about 10 mgs in a large batch then just add 2 mls to each bottle on top of the concentrates I'm trying.

Eg :- using calculator sample above, base in a syringe.

4 drops of concentrate
1.8 mls base

It's not exactly precise cos of differences in drops per ml and of course dilutes the 10 mg of nic but it works fine and makes mixing for me v simple and quick. I adjust the % of concentrate up or down depending on taste after steeping for a week or two.

When mixing large batches of stuff I like I always mix in this order...
Concentrate
Vg
Pg
Nic
Never shake the sh!t out of it, just gentle


Hope that makes sense, if not I blame the vino :-)

Yeah. Different cola concentrates from different manufacturers will taste different or need different percentages.
Googling whatever flavour and the brand with the word 'percentage' will generally bring you to a thread on ECF where people have tried it.

Stevia. I think most shops only carry the tabs that might use a binding agent but you can find pure Stevia in some health shops or buy the powder on Amazon. Read the info on ECF about it, it's incredibly powerful/concentrated so only a few drops necessary depending on the solution you make.
It's much better as a sweetener than EM. EM candifies things whereas Stevia has a bright, zingy sweetness (which, oh dear god, can be overwhelming if you don't use sparingly).

tesco stocks 3 or 4 different brands of stevia - liquid, tabs and powder. the liquid tastes more 'mellow' and less like aspartame than the powder but the powder would be probably be easier for DIY. it's shockingly sweet stuff though.

grindle wrote: »

Stevia. I think most shops only carry the tabs that might use a binding agent but you can find pure Stevia in some health shops or buy the powder on Amazon. Read the info on ECF about it, it's incredibly powerful/concentrated so only a few drops necessary depending on the solution you make.
It's much better as a sweetener than EM. EM candifies things whereas Stevia has a bright, zingy sweetness (which, oh dear god, can be overwhelming if you don't use sparingly).

Do you reckon this Stevia extract in Glycerine looks like it would be ok for vaping?

Ingredients
Vegetable Glycerine, Better Stevia [Certified Organic Stevia Extract (Stevia rebauydiana) (Leaf)] De-ionized Water and Purified Stevia Extract (Stevia rebaudiana) (Leaf)

I made a 50/50 mix the other day

The stuff tastes great but is like gloop...

Anyone have any experience with DKS flavouring from bargain vapour?

DirtyBollox wrote: »

that gloopiness i believe us down to the 50% vg, mine did the same thing till i dropped to 30% vg

Gonna try that this evening

I am out of dropper bottles, any suggestions on a good alternative container?

DirtyBollox wrote: »

using them for putting the mix in? if so just clean out another enpty bottle you might have. im using 10ml plastic bottles for mine

Mine are all full sorry that's what I meant

What else could you mix in? Medicine bottles?

my scales arent cheap households scales..precision jewelry scales actually!

ive a large scales in work thats really accurate and have weights to make sure that its reading right and these weights read the same on my small scales i use for mixing..

as for the 1gm/1ml..it still works,as its a percentage measure at the end and it all ends up right for me.

if your really gonna be fussy about measurements,you cant really say that syringes could be more accurate than a well calibrated scales...your reading the measures by eye-so there could easily be a fraction of difference there.

its all just advice for the op-choose what you will!

Then I asked for PG. It's feckin prescription only!! And it's €20-odd for 500ml!!

Try Bakery or Cooking supply shops .. its used to make the likes of Brownies / Muffins and Ice Cream

or

Ebay

Its under 50 euro inc delivery for 5 litres or a Tenner Inc delivery for a liter (delivery being the expensive bit).