DIY Competition - All Day Vapes

[YeOldeOke]

A competition for our DIY community!

Prize: 5x10ml premixed concentrates from any of our 3 ranges (75+ flavours). These mix at a standard 10% for ease of use. The 5x10ml yields 500ml of juice!

To enter:
1)Tell us why you DIY and what you see as the pros and cons. You are free to post/comment as many times as you wish, each bona fide post will count as an entry and a sequential number allocated to it for the draw.
Bona fide post? A normal post/response not designed to just up the post count.

2)Tag 2 friends.

Competition is open to everybody except our staff.
Closing: Midnight 28 Feb 2018

 

[Smoke_A_Llama]

Seeing as I only started four days ago

Honest got sick off blowing money on juice which is barely vapeable... one has been relegated to herbicide duty

Pro: fun, sense of achievement, virtually limitless possibilities and of course cost

Con: shipping fees, never enough variety of concentrates, waiting for juice to steep, rule #1

@Paul33 @Room Fogger

 

[Cor]

Well i started out doing diy just over a year ago iy started out as a way to save cash coz imo juice from vape shops are hella expensive and going into the subohm world you vape allot of juice and then vapeing goes from cheaper as smokes to one hell of a expensive hobby.

Pro's
Its cheap
You can play with flavours as you wabt
You can mix what you would like to vape
You can mix at your leisure
You can share ideas
Help out fellow vapers in need of juice

Cons:
One spot never supplies all the consentrates you need.
Impulse buying x12
Shipping fees
All the tools that you need has a hefty price
And the steep time

@antonherbst @Constantbester @Marek_710 @TheV

 

[Room Fogger]

I started the journey into the deep hole of diy about 4 months ago.

Pros- customization to suit your taste, achieve the of actually doing it, endless options, actual cost is lower, make as much as you want or need, can add to existing juices to fine tune.

Cons - rule 1, always one concentrate short, time to actually sit and do it, good on paper does not mean good in mixed version, steeping time.

@vicTor @Friep

 

[vicTor]

hi, I started DIY in November 2017 and loving it

Pros - since I am PG sensitive, I almost gave up vaping, but thanks to DIY (and this forum) I discovered I can manage with max VG mixes and all was well with the universe ! Also the amount of money to be saved is a no brainer.

Cons - steep time, also due to my PG affliction, I never taste all the latest/greatest juices on the market

@Moerse Rooikat @Braki

 

[Friep]

Thanks for the tag @Room Fogger and thanks for the comp @YeOldeOke

 

[Friep]

Two years ago +- I started my diy journey when I got my first sub ohm device. Came from a twisp the juice was expensive r180 for 20ml that lasted me a week now I am lucky if 20ml lasts me a day. So also going with the it's more economical reason. But this grew in to much more than that. Diy is one of the things that keeps me motivated to continue vaping I am a sucker for variety. Jus love doing new compinations and always hoping to find that one mix to rule all other mixes.

 

[Friep]

Pros:
1. It is more economical than commercial juice.
2. The compinations are infinite.
3. I can fine tune pg/vg ratios and the nic content.
4. One extremely enjoyable hobby.

 

[Friep]

Cons:
1. Steeping sucks.
2. Rule one always needing one consentrate for everything I want to mix.
3. Major FOMO especially when @Rude Rudi posts what he mixed.
4. It is time consuming.
5. Never being happy with a mix always have to change something and "better" it.
6. Those awful franken mixes I come up with from time to time.
7. Trying to get that one recipe right of that one juice that you tasted from a friend and can't even remember what it tastes like anymore.

 

[Friep]

Let's tag some friends @TheV @RichJB @Rude Rudi @BATMAN

 

[RichJB]

I started DIYing in May 2016. Although cost was a major factor, I also loved the idea of determining my own flavour profiles and making the juice to the nic/VG/PG/flavour strength/sweetness/volume that I wanted - not what a retailer has decided will be the norm.

Pros are too many to list. But just the key ones:
* once you have your concentrate stash up and running, you will never be short of juice
* creative reward
* ability to tailor the juice to your liking
* vibrant community with a lot of helpful generous people

The only major con is that there are just too many flavours that I want to have. One has to draw the line somewhere so there there are flavours I'd like to have but which I sadly have to cross off my list. Everything in moderation and DIY is no exception.

Thanks for the comp @YeOldeOke!

Tagging @Rude Rudi and my Scumbag co-hosts @Chukin'Vape and @DanielSLP.

 

[YeOldeOke]

Many cite cost. Cost was my primary reason to start DIY way back when, but I am not so sure it was a realistic assessment. I should sit down and work out what the costs amounted to per ml of vapeable juice, for interest sake. But my gut tells me it worked out quite expensive if I take everything into account, excluding time. I had ginormous wastage. We all know the story of masses of flavours never used, or used very little. Binned flavours and juice.

Has anyone done the audit of all expenses vs yield?

 

[YeOldeOke]

Which is why I advise new DIY'ers to start small, probably a few fruits (easiest to work with) and a coupla creams. Saves lots of money and teaches you a lot. Expand from there as your knowledge grows.

 

[Paul33]

Seeing as I only started four days ago

Honest got sick off blowing money on juice which is barely vapeable... one has been relegated to herbicide duty

Pro: fun, sense of achievement, virtually limitless possibilities and of course cost

Con: shipping fees, never enough variety of concentrates, waiting for juice to steep, rule #1

@Paul33 @Room Fogger

I’m glad I convinced/talked you into DIY!!!!

 

[Smoke_A_Llama]

I’m glad I convinced/talked you into DIY!!!!

Expect the first invoice to arrive soon

 

[Paul33]

To be honest I got into DIY cause it sounded like fun and it sounded challenging at the same time! The perfect hobby.

Pro’s:

-You can LITERALLY make anything to see what it will taste like regardless how kak it might sound (yes I’m looking at you friend of mine who asked for a “Red Bull bourbon ice cream”)(no I never tried it)
-once you get your ADV recipes right the cost saving is enormous.
-damn but it’s fun to fiddle with recipes and tweak until it’s just right.

Cons:

-it can become time consuming when lazy friends want juice all the time.
-it can be seriously frustrating when trying every combination under the sun trying to clone a juice you like but just can’t get it right.
-finding a recipe that you want to make and of course you’re missing that one bugger of a concentrate.

@Room Fogger
@vicTor

 

[Paul33]

Expect the first invoice to arrive soon

Not the first one, that one is always expensive

 

[Smoke_A_Llama]

Not the first one, that one is always expensive

Only nic, scale, ten bottles and about 15 concentrates

 

[RichJB]

Has anyone done the audit of all expenses vs yield?

I imagine it would change dramatically from person to person. If one mixer jumps in and mixes up a liter of black licorice watermelon with MF coffee because they thought it sounded tasty then yeah, I imagine they'd be flushing a lot of money down the sink. But another mixer who only buys the concentrates for top-rated recipes on ATF would, I guess, be running at under 5% wastage. In about 20 months of DIY, my total wastage is under 200ml. Although there has been some juice that I've winced a bit at having to finish.

 

[Braki]

I'm very very new to vaping and when I saw this DIY thing I was like seriously interested. I live on the other side of the country and adding up the courier costs for 1 month supply plus the cost of the e-liquid... Well I can buy a new laptop with the money by the end of this year. I have started my research and watched so many videos and printed DIY's like crazy. Even lying in bed till 01:00 in the morning to get the recipe that makes sense and appeals to my general taste. Placing my first DIY order today and hoping for the best. My biggest reason is the cost savings. And I like a challenge. And maybe even if I get good at this I can start selling to the locals. As there is only 1 Vape Shop in the area and they sell weird no name brand stuff imported from some weird country.

@vicTor @Smoke_A_Llama

 

[BATMAN]

Thank you for the tag @Friep and thanks for the comp @YeOldeOke .

I started DIY'ing about a year and 4 months ago.

Initially I really sucked at it and considered leaving it many times but managed to look up hints and tips online and go further from there.

PRO'S:
-I save alot of money through making my own juice.I havent bought a bottle of juice in the last 6 months and I do not miss it one bit.
-I have perfected my two ADV's (which are sweet desserts) and I now go through as much of them as I like each and everyday without having to stress about running out of juice due to the large quantities in which I make them.
-I get to try one new flavour every month and so I learn through more experience and perfect more recipes through learning.I really look forward to this.
-I get to make different PG/VG ratios according to my liking (30/70 for everyday,20/80 for more clouds and sometimes 40/60 for added throat hit).
This helps me depending on my needs at the time.
-I always meet more people on the DIY journey and we exchange alot of information and experiences.
-The feeling of accomplishment when getting a recipe right and being complimented by your buddies.
-No worries about people 'bombing you' for your expensive commercial juice .

CON's:
-Hate paying so much for courier.
-Investing in a new recipe (money and time wise) and finding out that it flopped.
-Steep time on some recipes take way too long.
-Not knowing what is missing from your recipe and struggling to find out what it is.


@skaby @Constantbester @stixx @Jengz

 

[Adephi]

Way cheaper than comercial juices.
Can adjust any ingredient the way you like.
Endless variety of flavours.

@BATMAN @joker01

 

[Dietz]

I am not one for Comps anymore... But I'd like to comment as this is a topic I love!

I Made my 1st DIY post last year 1st Jan 2017 and its never stopped since. I have have had Many Massive failures and many Super awesome creations.
I started DIY because I really enjoy making my own EVERYTHING!! And this turned out to be one of the best things Ive tried to DIY!! The second reason as to save a bit of Costs as I recently quit Smoking and wanted to replace with a more cost efficient means.

Pros:
- I get to mix anything to MY personal taste preference
- Only limit is your imagination
- Became more aware of different flavors in drinks and Sweet stuff as I tried recreating a vape version of things
- Saves Money compared to smoking (Actually its my cheapest hobby at the moment)
- Met a whole bunch of awesome people and made some really Cool friends
- Learned alot about the devices, Techniques, Ratios, Electronic Laws, flavors and soooo much more
- Its Like Magic! A little bit of this, a little bit of that and BOOOM something great happens (...most of the time)
- I got people to stop smoking by mixing to preference by using my experience and knowledge in mixing and from research
- I found this place
- I am still not close to knowing a fraction of what there is to know about DIY
- Something New almost every week in this industry, Its exciting as its always trying to innovate

Cons:
- (#!@##%$$#!##) STEEPING
- Working on a recipe for 3 months, just to see it cloned a day after posting it to e-liquid-recipes.com (sometimes Cloned and better - but the cloning and taking credit for it, really gets me)
- You will never know all there is to know about the Trade secrets
- Still have not found a ADV due to the range of Choices available
- Someday you mix a k@k juice (Murphey's Law, it will be my last VG and PG, so its k@k and I am forced to vape it)
- I have not yet Cracked the "Smooth Nic" secret.. and have tried Maaaaany
- Something I think is great, gets bad feedback from my friends
- The amount of mistakes I had to make...

Taggin some Friends
@craigb @Idiot @PsyCLown @alex1501

 

[Braki]

Another reason for doing DIY is to get my husband to put down the siggies for good. My mission is to get his favorite flavor. If I do this the money we would save will buy better mods and in the end maybe a holiday somewhere. O and did I mention a new laptop Just need a bit of a help to start this DIY thing. (Free stuffs is good stuffs)

@GregF

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[Paul33]

Another reason for doing DIY is to get my husband to put down the siggies for good. My mission is to get his favorite flavor. If I do this the money we would save will buy better mods and in the end maybe a holiday somewhere. O and did I mention a new laptop Just need a bit of a help to start this DIY thing. (Free stuffs is good stuffs)

@GregF

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Perfect forum to be on to get all the advice you could ever need to get going in DIY!!!