measuring small quantities

[Heabob]

Your pups are beautiful. Mimi and Bella? Great names, though neither looks like a Mini. =)

Thanks, Bella is the Dally, Mini is/was supposed to be a miniature Aussie, well, she is smallish for the breed anyway, lol.

Anyhow, I got a nice scale out in my pole barn, used for weighing small RC heli parts, for balancing blades, etc.
It's kinda too big for my office/mixing area (computer desk/cabinet), as it's already too cluttered.
All my supplies fit inside the upper cabinet, no room left, running out of space again, too many flavors, lol.
And I'm too lazy to try learning a new system for mixing.
Was just thinking a new DIY'er would prefer an easier method when starting out.
I was intimidated enough just using syringes for mixing when I first started DIY.
Maybe weighing would be easier for the younger bunch, or more adept than me anyway

 

[RocketPuppy]

Thanks, Bella is the Dally, Mini is/was supposed to be a miniature Aussie, well, she is smallish for the breed anyway, lol.

Anyhow, I got a nice scale out in my pole barn, used for weighing small RC heli parts, for balancing blades, etc.
It's kinda too big for my office/mixing area (computer desk/cabinet), as it's already too cluttered.
All my supplies fit inside the upper cabinet, no room left, running out of space again, too many flavors, lol.
And I'm too lazy to try learning a new system for mixing.
Was just thinking a new DIY'er would prefer an easier method when starting out.
I was intimidated enough just using syringes for mixing when I first started DIY.
Maybe weighing would be easier for the younger bunch, or more adept than me anyway

Hahaha I got the runt dog who ended up being the largest of the bunch.

I totally understand your hesitance with the scale. I was pretty apprehensive about it too...well until I tried it. I was hooked the first time when I didn't have to clean any syringes.


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[csardaz]

I use syringes and pipettes. Some flavors swell the rubber on the syringe plunger -those are where I use pipettes.

When I often need very small portions I dilute the flavor. Menthol -for example. I put 1/2ml of 10% menthol into 4.5ml of pg to make 1% menthol.

 

[Heabob]

I use syringes and pipettes. Some flavors swell the rubber on the syringe plunger -those are where I use pipettes.

When I often need very small portions I dilute the flavor. Menthol -for example. I put 1/2ml of 10% menthol into 4.5ml of pg to make 1% menthol.

Ripe Banana come to mind, total meltdown, lol.
Which is why I got a couple 1 ml leur lock glass syringes, hard to find tho.
Found some on flea-bay but I had to order them from china, only took a month

 

[Emilie]

I'm diabetic, so I'm used to syringes and can very quickly and easily measure out the amount I need.

I'd be too afraid of overpour with measuring by weight. I don't have steady hands at all.

 

[Emilie]

I also don't use beakers or graduated cylinders. I go directly from bottle to bottle.

 

[Heabob]

I'm diabetic, so I'm used to syringes and can very quickly and easily measure out the amount I need.

I'd be too afraid of overpour with measuring by weight. I don't have steady hands at all.

Diabetic also, but luckily, just on the pills...

 

[Emilie]

Pills never really did it for me.

 

[wallacecarey]

I think we all fight that. I find that if I have a 1 or 2 flavoring recipe I can make as small as a 10 ml test batch but, if I find myself mixing 3 or more flavorings and needing to measure out .3mL or smaller amounts of extract I jump up to a 20 mL test size. It works for me and I have been able to doctor up the failures into something useable (or give it to my son in law) Having a volume of pre mixed base Nick, PG and VG on hand keeps me from having to constantly deal with that part.

Wallace

 

[Tinker Ray]

I've been using a different method lately. I start by mixing an unflavored base - in my case it's 20% PG/50mg nic with 80% VG/dilute (VG with 15% distilled water/5% saline). I use this base to mix flavor concentrates to either 10% or 20% dilution depending on how strong the flavor is to begin with, 10% for tobacco absolutes, 20% for everything else. When I want to try a recipe idea I measure out flavors first. If I need 5% flavor using a 20% concentrate I calculate 5% of the desired total juice amount and multiply by 5 to get actual volume and so forth. When I've measured out all of the flavors I top off with unflavored base to the total desired amount. It's very easy and repeatable. The slight variations due to the original flavor PG/VG contents doesn't really change much. Also, the final blend is somewhat steeped already which makes it easier to test right away, or if your just in a hurry