Bottle rigidity and juice viscosity

[eightbitraptor]

Is there something I need to be aware of about using different bottles with different viscosity juices?

I’ve got the soft silicone bottle in my RSQ and when using Nasty Juice I could press quite lightly and it would easily flow into the atty. but with my diy lemon cake I have to press much harder and longer and it just seems to ooze in much slower rather than flow freely.

Both juices are 70/30 but the nasty juice is noticeably thinner.

I feel like maybe there should be a relationship between juice viscosity and bottle rigidity to make the squonk easier? Is this a thing or am I making stuff up?

 

[hariboholmes]

I get what you mean, In summer I had a few incidents where I would go to squonk blindly and have juice running all over my mod and hands, now that its cold I will sometimes go to squonk only to find i'm getting a near dry hit due to the juice staying thick and struggling to get up the tube into the RDA.

I don't think its the bottle thats at fault here its the inner diameter of the tube and the size of the hole in the RDA restricting the flow of juice, The only thing I have found to work is to thin out my juices slightly with PG or distilled water.

I've also noticed that when chain vaping the battery starts to warm up the bottle and it flows better.

I'm guessing that those using tanks get a similar effect in regards to the wicking of very high VG juice in winter outside.

 

[eyeball kid]

Is there something I need to be aware of about using different bottles with different viscosity juices?

I’ve got the soft silicone bottle in my RSQ and when using Nasty Juice I could press quite lightly and it would easily flow into the atty. but with my diy lemon cake I have to press much harder and longer and it just seems to ooze in much slower rather than flow freely.

Both juices are 70/30 but the nasty juice is noticeably thinner.

I feel like maybe there should be a relationship between juice viscosity and bottle rigidity to make the squonk easier? Is this a thing or am I making stuff up?

This is a pet project of mine and I'm speaking to tecc on the subject at the moment. Not all vg is the same. Many companies, particularly north American juice makers use a percentage of aqueous vg within the vg total to make a high vg juice more appropriate for pre made coils. Therefore you can not judge the viscosity of a juice purely by the vg/pg rating. I'd like to see a viscosity rating on every bottle to enable the user to check compatibility against their coils / device.

 

[Lord Grim]

This is a pet project of mine and I'm speaking to tecc on the subject at the moment. Not all vg is the same. Many companies, particularly north American juice makers use a percentage of aqueous vg within the vg total to make a high vg juice more appropriate for pre made coils. Therefore you can not judge the viscosity of a juice purely by the vg/pg rating. I'd like to see a viscosity rating on every bottle to enable the user to check compatibility against their coils / device.

I can picture the uninitiated now "So,you vape 10w40 vape oil then?"

 

[eightbitraptor]

This is a pet project of mine and I'm speaking to tecc on the subject at the moment. Not all vg is the same. Many companies, particularly north American juice makers use a percentage of aqueous vg within the vg total to make a high vg juice more appropriate for pre made coils. Therefore you can not judge the viscosity of a juice purely by the vg/pg rating. I'd like to see a viscosity rating on every bottle to enable the user to check compatibility against their coils / device.

I saw that thread and I think it’s a great idea. I am totally behind it. [emoji106] I’d love to be able to be able to gauge when I’m buying juice whether it’s going to wick ok in a kayfun for instance.

I get why my Nasty Juice is thinner even though it’s the same ratio, I suppose my main question was should the type of bottle make a difference to how it squonks, but it sounds like it’s more to do with the size of the hole in the 510 and the tubing. Which makes sense [emoji3]

 

[smplmind]

Viscous juices are a problem for squonking especially near the bottom of the bottle, I DIY so now tend towards the 60/40 or 50/50 mix as this is better for squonking and maybe the flavour is up from my previous 70/30. If the bottle is too soft it can be slow to suck back as well.

 

[Alastair Paterson]

I must admit never thought on it really, like many i also DIY my own juice and from time to time notice i do have to squonk a little harder on some of my mods to prevent a dry hit.
thinking on it now as most of my vaping is done via one squonk mod or another i may change my VG/Pg ratio to a 60/40 for btoh better flavour and slightly easier squonking