Flavour amount

[lemon22]

Hi,

Just made a few bottles of eliquid up, and in two of the liquids I required 15% flavouring. I took the time to work out how many drops from the bottle was 1ml by dropping the concentrate into a little measuring jug. It worked out at 25 drops per mil. As my concentrates are from the same vendor and the bottles look the same, I took that figure and applied it to every flavour when dropping into the mix. Now though once I'd made the liquids up I noticed one had more liquid in it than the other, even though I made both of them up to be 10ml. I know I've not added too much VG or Nicotine as I'm very precise in getting the measurements right.


Anyway my point is that I've had it with measuring the flavour percentages by drops per mil, it's just too inaccurate in my quest for getting my percentages just right.


How do you guys go about this? Should I buy a load of syringes and just keep a different syringe for each flavour? That's what I was thinking of doing. Or are there any other suggestions?


Thanks!

 

[Diche]

I use syringes and during my first (and so far only mixing session) I washed the syringe out between concentrates. I started with the least tainting flavour and ended up with the Red Astaire as I felt this was the most tainting. Then I binned the syringe because I couldn't be arsed washing it.

 

[South Coast Vaper]

I use syringes and during my first (and so far only mixing session) I washed the syringe out between concentrates. I started with the least tainting flavour and ended up with the Red Astaire as I felt this was the most tainting. Then I binned the syringe because I couldn't be arsed washing it.

+1 with this. I tried the dropper method and ended up with inconsistent mixes especially when trying to replicate a 10ml mix I liked in a 30ml, etc.


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[lemon22]

Thanks guys. I'll see if I can get a large batch of syringes from someplace.

 

[cheersm8]

Should I buy a load of syringes and just keep a different syringe for each flavour?

Yes, but no need to buy a load, they are washable and reusable.

 

[lemon22]

cheersm8 Yeah, suppose. I've found with plastic bottles though that even with a good clean they still seem to have some of the old flavour left. So I think it might be the same with the syringes. I guess use one syringe for fruit type flavours, another for methol, another for darker flavours, etc, is the best way to reuse.

 

[South Coast Vaper]

Thanks guys. I'll see if I can get a large batch of syringes from someplace.

If you can brave the usual glare of the local chemist ask for some blunt tip syringes in there.


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[ragged411]

+1 syringes, I don't reuse mine but im sure they are fine washed and dried. I work in a lab an we also use weight to measure out amounts accurately. 1L water = 1kg you could do the same with smaller scales and different liquids, you just need to know how much 1ml of each weighs.

 

[scrumpox]

I think it's a mistake to use both ml and drops measurements in the same recipe. Use one or other throughout, which usually means measured amounts and NEVER leaving to assumption how many drops per ml you're dosing up.

There's an exeption to every rule and that's the one or two drops per 10ml of additives you might be using.

When measuring with syringes, I never use the blunt needle attachment. Seems to me that anything in the needle is waste ... or not?

 

[lemon22]

@ragged411 Interesting idea. I'd have to have some mighty precise small scales for that though, for working out 10% flavouring say in 10ml bottle.

@scrumpox I agree about the wastage in the syringe blunt needle. That's a good tip, thanks!