If you have yet to buy yourself a Christmas gift, here is your chance@Bunnypoison I know that, have been looking at getting into DIY for a while however my wallet complains every time I start looking at startup cost
its just like vaping, the initial cost is high but the long term savings are worth it
. 2 minute noodles for a month will remind you of your colleague days so see it as an opportunity to hit some nostalgia and remember better days
I have finally received the awesome starter pack with the guidance of this thread:
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And I have made my first batch which will steep between 4 days to 4 weeks depending on the mix. This trial run honestly used up so little of the concentrates and bases that I do believe I could mix enough for 6 months with the entire start up batch.
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Thank you everyone for your input and advice!!!!!!
That's great, we can be beginner buddies
be sure to share if you do
Thank you, yes indeed I will have to replenish, especially with the popular recipe ingredients like Dragonfruit and Strawberry. I can use about 30ml a week so these steeps will last me a while. I think that the saving will come into play when I have mastered the recipes I really like and start buying larger quantities concentrate in those flavours. All and all I have to say that R450 a month looks pretty nice compared to R1200 cigarette habit. This way I also have left over flavours that I can experiment with later.Nicely done, @Bunnypoison. Yep, concentrates can last a long time depending on your recipes and juice consumption. I still have bottles of concentrate bought in May last year and which have been used in several recipes but don't need replenishing yet.
Theoretically, at a 15% flavour concentration and 3mg nic 70/30 juice, a DIY purchase of R1056:
1x 100ml 36mg nic (R180)
1l VG (R100)
100ml PG (R20)
180ml flavours (18 x 10ml bottles @ R42 ave ea = R756)
could make you 1200ml of DIY juice with a small amount of PG and VG left over. That is substantially less than R1 per ml. Or, if you vape 10ml a day, roughly four months of vaping @ R264 per month.
I say theoretically because you will never get to a point where you use up all your concentrates exactly in making a 1200ml batch. But even if you double the amount of concentrates purchased, it's still only around R1.50 per ml or R450 per month for a 10ml per day vaping habit. And you don't lose those concentrates, what you don't use is left over for future batches. So, over time, you build up a massive stock of surplus concentrates. As you will no doubt experience soon.
Thank you, I definitely keep everyone posted. The matches just slipped my view when taking the picture, quite a sharp eye you have there. I keep them close in case we have a spider in the house and I have to burn the whole place down.
I have to admit though, if you gave me an option between matches, a lighter or a blowtorch, I would pick the blowtorch every time !!!!!Lol
I ask because I now have a keen have an eye for matches. The other day I was looking for matches or a lighter and I couldn't find it anywhere. They were everywhere when I smoked!
I had to use my little gas blowtorch that I used a while back to torch wire for coils
Great stuff! Let us know how you find your creations.I have finally received the awesome starter pack with the guidance of this thread:
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And I have made my first batch which will steep between 4 days to 4 weeks depending on the mix. This trial run honestly used up so little of the concentrates and bases that I do believe I could mix enough for 6 months with the entire start up batch.
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Thank you everyone for your input and advice!!!!!!
I would love it if you could share some recipes that you enjoyed
Wow, its lucky that I did Funfetti as the first 30ml vape because a lot of reviews mentioned that it could steep for only 4 days.
I'm mixing in grams, wanted a quick way of mixing and it is working out well
I personally downloaded the Ejuice lab app for I think R19,99. When you upload recipes you find on forums you can view the recipes in grams, ml, percentage or even drops if you want to count. The advantage of this app is that it batches your mixes so you can label them and also set steeping reminders. It is easy to use but online calculators will give you the same calculations so that will work just as well. I will send you screenshot of my current batches.
