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thank you peps1 would the rpm's have to be kept low or just let the drill go full power?

Well.......good question!

You have two forces acting on the liquid in the bottle, the rotational force pushing liquid simultaneously to the top and bottom of the bottle in a constant state of flux resulting in the mixing. The higher the viscosity of the liquid the higher RPS needed.

But, you also have an agitation occurring (like in the video above with the jigsaw) due to the bottle not being perfectly balance, due to its shape, and the offset of the clamp holding it (a similar setting is found of some lab rotatory mixers too).

From experience I can say a rubber coated retort clamp will spin a 100ml bottle quite happily at full speed on a 18v Drill @ -1500 rpm.

Also worth pointing out you will not get anywhere near the amount of air beng mixed into your liquid this way, over say using a coffee frothier or cotton bud, and ergo avoid nicotine or aroma molecules deteriorating.

edit to add:

This all being said, there is no right or wrong way to mix your liquid if the results work for you! I have had nice juice that has been mixed with a drill, a cotton bud, in a magnetic stirrer hot plate, by hand, and in a blender.....If it work for you its right.
 
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Some really good info there TBH all I do to mix my juice now is shake hell out of it for a few mins, stick it in my steeping drawer then repeat every 24hrs for about a week times vary for different flavours
 
Some really good info there TBH all I do to mix my juice now is shake hell out of it for a few mins, stick it in my steeping drawer then repeat every 24hrs for about a week times vary for different flavours

And absolutely no problem with doing it that way, I do that myself......only time I whack out the drill is if I'm doing a shit load of bottles (like when i have a bunch of new concentrates, or variant of a recipe I'm working on) and I know shaking 30 bottles by hand every 24 hours will be a pain in the arse!
 
Well.......good question!

You have two forces acting on the liquid in the bottle, the rotational force pushing liquid simultaneously to the top and bottom of the bottle in a constant state of flux resulting in the mixing. The higher the viscosity of the liquid the higher RPS needed.

But, you also have an agitation occurring (like in the video above with the jigsaw) due to the bottle not being perfectly balance, due to its shape, and the offset of the clamp holding it (a similar setting is found of some lab rotatory mixers too).

From experience I can say a rubber coated retort clamp will spin a 100ml bottle quite happily at full speed on a 18v Drill @ -1500 rpm.

Also worth pointing out you will not get anywhere near the amount of air beng mixed into your liquid this way, over say using a coffee frothier or cotton bud, and ergo avoid nicotine or aroma molecules deteriorating.

edit to add:

This all being said, there is no right or wrong way to mix your liquid if the results work for you! I have had nice juice that has been mixed with a drill, a cotton bud, in a magnetic stirrer hot plate, by hand, and in a blender.....If it work for you its right.

Tonight I've been making a new batch of liquids with a 70vg/30pg mix and I thought I'll try using the drill method I haven't got a clamp so I had to improvise with a zip tie. Anyway I've made 7 30ml bottles and they all appear to have blended almost immediately the thing I'm most interested in though is the flavour differences being the fact that next to no air bubbles were produced during the mix. Depending on the results I could have a new mixing technique that I've always dismissed. So thank you peps1 for enlightening me.
 
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