I've become quite a student of HICs methods, spent the last hour or so reading through an older thread about how to mix recipes with smaller percentages and it opened my eyes to the fact that I've been doing this wrong all along!! No wonder I couldn't get anything to taste right!!
I'm especially intrigued with mixing up JUST the flavorings together and then putting that into my nic base at the desired total percentage for the recipe. Makes perfect sense when trying new recipes so you don't waste a bunch of stuff. I understand that if the lowest percentage in your recipe is 0.5% you would use 1 drop for that, 2 drops for 1%, 3 drops for 1.5% and so on. So a recipe has, say, 7 ingredients. Those 7 ingredients amount to 34 drops. Now I have the flavor mix and want to add that to my base at the 9% the recipe calls for. If I'm going to do a 3 ml tester bottle how do I figure out how much flavor base to use?? If I put one drop of flavor mix in 3 ml of nic base, what % mixture does that give me?
Pretty sure I'm just thinking too hard about this but I don't get it! The pipettes I use are 30 drops per ml ( I just went and measured that!) I know that makes a difference and I get that 1 drop in 5ml is 1% if you have pipettes that are 20 drops per ml. But mine are 30 drops per ml.
Sorry if this sounds disjointed,,, having trouble with the math
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I'm especially intrigued with mixing up JUST the flavorings together and then putting that into my nic base at the desired total percentage for the recipe. Makes perfect sense when trying new recipes so you don't waste a bunch of stuff. I understand that if the lowest percentage in your recipe is 0.5% you would use 1 drop for that, 2 drops for 1%, 3 drops for 1.5% and so on. So a recipe has, say, 7 ingredients. Those 7 ingredients amount to 34 drops. Now I have the flavor mix and want to add that to my base at the 9% the recipe calls for. If I'm going to do a 3 ml tester bottle how do I figure out how much flavor base to use?? If I put one drop of flavor mix in 3 ml of nic base, what % mixture does that give me?
Pretty sure I'm just thinking too hard about this but I don't get it! The pipettes I use are 30 drops per ml ( I just went and measured that!) I know that makes a difference and I get that 1 drop in 5ml is 1% if you have pipettes that are 20 drops per ml. But mine are 30 drops per ml.
Sorry if this sounds disjointed,,, having trouble with the math
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this is just so my pea-brain can understand). 9% of 90 drops is 8 drops. So I'd put 8 drops flavor mix into 3 ml of nic base. If I wanted to make 10 ml (30x10=300 drops) x 9% = 27 drops. Bigger mixes I think I can get,,, it was just the drops and tiny percentages and the 30 drops/ml that was confusing me. 
