Pre Mix Base

[Bambua]

Just curious since I'm just getting started, does anyone else premix their base when they get supplies in to make things easier? I was pondering mixing a base that is a target of 60% VG 40% PG 6 mg nicotine and assume 15% of flavoring using a calculator and just leave that 15% out. Then when I mix it, take the 15% minus the percentage of flavoring and add the additional PG to cover the difference. I have some 500 ml brown glass bottles I can store the base in and just thought it might make life easier.

 

[AmandaD]

Yes, I do that all the time. It makes it much faster to make up smaller samples as well!

 

[misswish]

Yep, me too. As Amanda said, makes mixing a lot faster, and you aren't dragging out more bottles every time you mix.

 

[Bambua]

I'm also thinking of it from the perspective of handling the high nicotine base for as little time as possible, less chances for spilling and miss using.

 

[Edd]

Same here

 

[clownballs]

I've been mixing up my high % nic to a usable base like you mentioned for a while... only issue I had was when I first started, I was a high PG user... as I progressed, I became a higher VG user and now I have several LARGE bottles of high PG base that don't get much use.... some day I may get around to remixing them

 

[Huckleberried]

I make my base like others, but I don't account for the flavoring that would later go into it. The difference in mg for me is negligible.

 

[Huckleberried]

@clownballs, love the name and avatar!

 

[JXN]

While I've got some 50mL bottles of 100mg in the freezer I like to downmix it to 50 or even 30mg in a 50/50 pg/vg base and once it comes out add more vg to hit my target. The last 250mL mix I made was 16mg in 35/65 pg to vg. I was mising any throat hit so my new mix is back to 18 and added flavoring doesn't matter to me.

 

[Mommay]

Yeppers, I mix a batch of base so I don't have to disturb my nic stash.

 

[HeadInClouds]

I'm late to the Me Too party. I mix a couple weeks' supply at a time in a squirt bottle.
I also keep a few favorite recipes premixed (flavoring only) in little bottles.
It is SO FAST to make a bottle of juice if you do it this way!

 

[Bambua]

I'm late to the Me Too party. I mix a couple weeks' supply at a time in a squirt bottle.
I also keep a few favorite recipes premixed (flavoring only) in little bottles.
It is SO FAST to make a bottle of juice if you do it this way!

I sat down last night because I wanted something different to vape and literally made 2 30ML bottles in like 5 minutes, max. Such a nice way to do it.

 

[Jaaxx]

I use 1000mg liquid and one of these:

 

[Bambua]

I use 1000mg liquid and one of these:

Now that looks interesting...what is it exactly?

 

[Jaaxx]

It's a laboratory pipettor. I have a few. Basically it lets you meter out liquids at a precision of 1/1000th of a ml. I can easily do 1ml test batches of liquid with 100% accuracy.