Advice on first DIY mix

[andyroo]

Should be fine mate, 50ml plus 1 18mg nic shot makes you 3mg.

 

[oldhippydude]

This is a very good point. Do you keep shaking while steeping or let them rest ?

The longer I have been mixing, the less I shake them. I will probably give them a shake a few times in the days after I mix them, If i remember and before i start using them.
I have never thought that a liquid tasted like I did not shake it enough.

I do not really "steep" my juices. I do try to mix them a week before I need them and If i end up mixing a day or two before I use them, then that is how long they get.
My personal experience, back when my mixing was all scientific with proper measurements and notes taken, I personally found that my mixes definitely improved over the first three days or so. Beyond that I could not honestly say whether they were better or worse.
I tend to mix about 3 months worth at a time, and am not thinking that the juice is so much better after a couple of months.

Other swear that different flavours need different times to steep. Who am I to dispute their experience.
Find out for yourself what you thing with your own experiments.

good luck

 

[Robbyt80]

The longer I have been mixing, the less I shake them. I will probably give them a shake a few times in the days after I mix them, If i remember and before i start using them.
I have never thought that a liquid tasted like I did not shake it enough.

I do not really "steep" my juices. I do try to mix them a week before I need them and If i end up mixing a day or two before I use them, then that is how long they get.
My personal experience, back when my mixing was all scientific with proper measurements and notes taken, I personally found that my mixes definitely improved over the first three days or so. Beyond that I could not honestly say whether they were better or worse.
I tend to mix about 3 months worth at a time, and am not thinking that the juice is so much better after a couple of months.

Other swear that different flavours need different times to steep. Who am I to dispute their experience.
Find out for yourself what you thing with your own experiments.

good luck

Well I'm going to wait for my new tanks to turn up before trying again. I have a feeling I'm not getting the best flavour from smok coils

 

[mattc1]

The longer I have been mixing, the less I shake them. I will probably give them a shake a few times in the days after I mix them, If i remember and before i start using them.
I have never thought that a liquid tasted like I did not shake it enough.

I do not really "steep" my juices. I do try to mix them a week before I need them and If i end up mixing a day or two before I use them, then that is how long they get.
My personal experience, back when my mixing was all scientific with proper measurements and notes taken, I personally found that my mixes definitely improved over the first three days or so. Beyond that I could not honestly say whether they were better or worse.
I tend to mix about 3 months worth at a time, and am not thinking that the juice is so much better after a couple of months.

Other swear that different flavours need different times to steep. Who am I to dispute their experience.
Find out for yourself what you thing with your own experiments.

good luck

Not even custards, they always seem to take a while longer.

 

[oldhippydude]

Not even custards, they always seem to take a while longer.

The reason custard needs longer is that custard vapes are the work of the devil. They are an unnatural abomination that should be exorcised from the face of the planet, in my opinion.

All my mixes are baccy mixes or baccy + stuff mixes. I am always reading on here that baccy needs longer to "steep". That is not my experience. I might just have crap tastebuds. My point stands though. Find out for yourself what your juice needs to work for your tastebuds.

 

[JohnNada]

I said this in your other thread but I think it's worth saying again - your life would be so much cheaper and easier with a RDA for mixing and testing flavours.

Take the Profile RDA, which I'll use as an example because it's known for it's excellent flavour reproduction and is a lot easier to build than wrapping wire coils (or even fitting and adjusting pre-made wire coils):

• Bend mesh strip with supplied bending rod
• Fit mesh to deck
• Pulse at 10W to burn off any oil from your fingers
• Insert and trim wick
• Juice it up
• Test your liquid

Want to try a new flavour?

• Remove cotton
• Rinse mesh/deck in hot water until clean
• Pulse at 10W to dry it off
• Insert and trim wick
• Juice it up
• Test your liquid

It takes less than 5 minutes so you could do it 2 or 3 times in the time it takes for a stock coil to properly prime, and if the flavours aren't drastically different then you could even get away with the same cotton as it doesn't take long for the new flavour to come through.

OFRF nexMesh Strips - £6.99 for 10 and they can last a few weeks each
Vandy Vape M Cotton Laces - £3.99 for 20.

That's a fair saving over stock coils which are what, £10-£15 for a 5 pack (and the you have to play the Quality Control Lottery with them). Fine for flavours you know and like, but it just seems like madness for testing DIY liquids.

 

[oldhippydude]

I agree with an rda making testing juice easier.

Mesh strips and cotton laces to test juice?

Not so sure about that.

If mesh and cotton laces gets you the vape you want to vape on a regular bases. Then fine.

As a tester it seems expensive and over complicated compared to some simple round wire coils and some muji cotton or similar.

 

[JohnNada]

I agree with an rda making testing juice easier.

Mesh strips and cotton laces to test juice?

Not so sure about that.

If mesh and cotton laces gets you the vape you want to vape on a regular bases. Then fine.

As a tester it seems expensive and over complicated compared to some simple round wire coils and some muji cotton or similar.

True, that would be even cheaper but I was just thinking from the perspective of someone new to building. I was pretty good at wrapping coils before I ditched it as fitting mesh strip is much quicker and easier (plus I prefer the quicker ramp up at less watts and enhanced flavour). All IMHO of course.

 

[oldhippydude]

True, that would be even cheaper but I was just thinking from the perspective of someone new to building. I was pretty good at wrapping coils before I ditched it as fitting mesh strip is much quicker and easier (plus I prefer the quicker ramp up at less watts and enhanced flavour). All IMHO of course.

I was also thinking from the perspective of someone new to building. that is the great thing about perspective. we all have our own. and Robby will have to decide what his is.

 

[MHL]

@Robbyt80 I would second (or is it third) the advice above and get some kind of RDA to test your juices with.

Learning to coil / mesh an RDA might be a bit of a learning curve, but it will save you so much time and money in the long run, you'll be glad you did.

I used stock coils when I first started mixing, because I couldn't be arsed with 2 learning curves at a time (mixing, and coil building). But it made the mixing / testing process so slow that I never really got very far. Ok, I managed to make a couple of vapable juices. But after I learned to build and started using an RDA to test with, it made things soooooo much easier. You can tweak, test, tweak, test, to your heart's content. Thats when I started coming up with mixes that were really fucking lovely, and I've hardly bought a premixed flavour since.