Bryan123456
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Size IS an issue
OK this is a very brief review of my recently acquired large gauge drawing needles. They are approximately 112.7mm long (that’s about 5 inches if you are a woman; some men may say its bigger). Internal diameter is a whopping 3.94mm. The biggest needle Liberty Flights sell is 14 gauge, which has a 1.6mm ID. The 18 gauge needles I am using for drawing flavour concentrates and in my bottom feeder devices have an inside diameter of 0.838 mm. That should put things in context.
In the photographs I have included
A 1ml syringe
A standard 18 gauge luer slip blunt needle
The long needles are luer slip too – you can see the luer fitting on one end. This means they work with most commercially bought syringes – those that take luer slip needles.
The syringe on these is effectively a piece of flat ended bendable plastic pipe. The length means its possible to get deeper into bottles. If you use large bore syringes for getting fluid out of bottles, you’ll know that a 30ml one won’t get inside the 250ml bottles from cig eliquid or 500ml ones from Nicvape. These needles will get to the bottom of the 60 ml bottles I keep my pre-diluted nicotine base in.
These needles have transformed the process of drawing premix and vastly improved that of getting VG out of its bottle. The limitation on what can be drawn now is the size of the hole in the syringe itself and I can do nothing about that. But everything is quicker and easier and the possibility of knocking something over whilst swearing about VG and waiting for it to creep up an evacuated space is vastly diminished. It’s a good un.
I have washed this a few times and it washes well and looks like it will be quite durable.
The bad news
I had to buy 100
The good news
I will be selling some.
OK this is a very brief review of my recently acquired large gauge drawing needles. They are approximately 112.7mm long (that’s about 5 inches if you are a woman; some men may say its bigger). Internal diameter is a whopping 3.94mm. The biggest needle Liberty Flights sell is 14 gauge, which has a 1.6mm ID. The 18 gauge needles I am using for drawing flavour concentrates and in my bottom feeder devices have an inside diameter of 0.838 mm. That should put things in context.
In the photographs I have included
A 1ml syringe
A standard 18 gauge luer slip blunt needle
The long needles are luer slip too – you can see the luer fitting on one end. This means they work with most commercially bought syringes – those that take luer slip needles.
The syringe on these is effectively a piece of flat ended bendable plastic pipe. The length means its possible to get deeper into bottles. If you use large bore syringes for getting fluid out of bottles, you’ll know that a 30ml one won’t get inside the 250ml bottles from cig eliquid or 500ml ones from Nicvape. These needles will get to the bottom of the 60 ml bottles I keep my pre-diluted nicotine base in.
These needles have transformed the process of drawing premix and vastly improved that of getting VG out of its bottle. The limitation on what can be drawn now is the size of the hole in the syringe itself and I can do nothing about that. But everything is quicker and easier and the possibility of knocking something over whilst swearing about VG and waiting for it to creep up an evacuated space is vastly diminished. It’s a good un.
I have washed this a few times and it washes well and looks like it will be quite durable.
The bad news
I had to buy 100
The good news
I will be selling some.
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