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zeeter

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Other than the mis-measurements that I'm sure we've all made, what's the dumbest thing you've done?

My worst was forgetting a decimal point and instead of putting in .5% I wound up with 5%. Still waiting for that to cure but not looking forward to it.

Other was after I made a great batch of banana nut bread, I decided to make a 120ml batch because I liked it so much. Something was off as I had 5ml of PG left over and the bottle was full. I guess this falls under mis-measurement, but it was a pretty dramatic one since I was making so much.
 

zephyr

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Spent half an hour carefully considering percentages of like 6 different flavors, careful measuring, then..."I wonder what a dash of Licorice will do! Yummy idea"

Mistake second only to priming a coil with Licorice flavoring...lesson learned
 

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Instead of 1% of TFA Caramel Cappuccino, I used 1ml of it in a 10ml bottle. That was my first mix, I think. Nearly blew out my taste buds.

Back when I was using syringes, I put FA Marzipan into my bottle of FA Marshmallow, instead of into the empty mixing bottle.
 

zephyr

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I've made the same basic mistake 100 times, get a nice mix going then dumping something nonsensical in it. I guess I'm hoping for a magical new mix nobody has tried. Sometimes I also just get tired of seeing a big bottle of flavor I never use (coconut extra, or AP) so I decide to see "how would Nutty strawberry taste?" Yeah...I used to love ry4 so got way too much acetyl pyrazine cause bulk is cheaper.
 

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I get empty headed when I'm mixing and zone out quite often, quite often I use wrong measurements and just say, "fuck it I'm vaping it anyway" though the worst I've ever screwed up a mix is grabbing the wrong flavor, example: I was making a mix that needed FA peach, I grab FA pear, a seriously different flavor there.
 

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I think the worst was shortly after my son moved back home, started vaping, and started mixing his own ejuice based on my strawberry & cream ejuice, which meant he was using the same flavors that I use; I always keep the bottles on the whirly-gig shelf in the same, correct order so that I always use them in the correct proportion... but unfortunately he wasn't quite observant on that order... so that this, my usual recipe:

Inawera Shisha Strawberry 14%
TFA DX Bavarian Cream 5.25%
TFA Vanilla Swirl 3.85%
CAP Sweet Cream 1.7%
TFA Sweetener 0.1%

... the DX Bavarian and Vanilla Swirl were reversed. They're not terribly dissimilar flavors, so it didn't turn out *horrible*... but it did taste a little different, and that's completely unsat to me, it needs to taste the same with every vape or I'm not satisfied with it.

He now DOES always put them back in the correct order, trust me. :D

Andria
 

zeeter

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You'd think we would see the audacity of adding 25% before actually mixing it, but when in the numbers zone it's pretty easy to make a common mistake like that.
 

zeeter

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Spent half an hour carefully considering percentages of like 6 different flavors, careful measuring, then..."I wonder what a dash of Licorice will do! Yummy idea"

Mistake second only to priming a coil with Licorice flavoring...lesson learned

Been there. "This looks like a great recipe - let me add 2% of RY4 Double and toughen it up!" Fail!!!
 

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Once I was mixing up a one shot of @wllmc's GOC and my eyes wandered over to the wrong column in the calculator. So instead of putting in the correct weight I put in the percentage number as the grams needed. As I moved on to the next flavor I had an oh shit moment when I realized what I had done. Down the drain it went because you don't mess with GOC!
 

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Once I was mixing up a one shot of @wllmc's GOC and my eyes wandered over to the wrong column in the calculator. So instead of putting in the correct weight I put in the percentage number as the grams needed. As I moved on to the next flavor I had an oh shit moment when I realized what I had done. Down the drain it went because you don't mess with GOC!
hahaha imagine making 500mls or a liter of concentrate and messing up at the very end :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm: did that a couple times.
 

SteveS45

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Wow for a guy that doesn't take criticism well for hours all I see is threads about screwing up DIY. More TLB mixes from ZJC
 

jambi

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I overshoot my PG ratio quite often. It's so thin, and comes out of the bottle so fast, and I squeeze way too hard. :)

When I mix a recipe, I grab all the bottles I need and line them up. Sometimes I space out and grab the wrong bottle. Like I'm looking at the sheet, Hazelnut 7%, but I grab the Butter Pecan bottle instead and add 7% of that, when the recipe only calls for 4%. I probably do that more often than I realize. I still vape it. Actually, it's how I found out that Bust A Nut is just as good with the hazelnut and butter pecan ratios reversed.
 

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"...that sounds like it might work." Famous last words of many, many bad batches. I've been known to tip over bottles from time to time as well.

But mix-wise, it's usually one culprit. Too much this, an extra drop of that, but it happens. All in the name of the game, there are no failures - just unsuccessful attempts. Be Bob Ross of the Bottle.
 

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Been there. "This looks like a great recipe - let me add 2% of RY4 Double and toughen it up!" Fail!!![/QUOTE
"...that sounds like it might work." Famous last words of many, many bad batches. I've been known to tip over bottles from time to time as well.

But mix-wise, it's usually one culprit. Too much this, an extra drop of that, but it happens. All in the name of the game, there are no failures - just unsuccessful attempts. Be Bob Ross of the Bottle.

No mistakes, just happy little accidents!
 

fozzy71

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Oh yea, I've fucked up a few mixes. In one case I had to add .25% of Wera garden Orange. I added 25% and promptly blew my taste buds into the next month.

I have done similar with my written gram measurements, but never that bad. I always make sure to write my decimals dark now.

Once I was mixing up a one shot of @wllmc's GOC and my eyes wandered over to the wrong column in the calculator. So instead of putting in the correct weight I put in the percentage number as the grams needed. As I moved on to the next flavor I had an oh shit moment when I realized what I had done. Down the drain it went because you don't mess with GOC!

This is one thing I like about mixing in the basement away from the PC. I write anything I plan to mix in a memo pad with just grams.

When I mix a recipe, I grab all the bottles I need and line them up. Sometimes I space out and grab the wrong bottle. Like I'm looking at the sheet, Hazelnut 7%, but I grab the Butter Pecan bottle instead and add 7% of that, when the recipe only calls for 4%. I probably do that more often than I realize. I still vape it.

Been there, done that. I always try and lay out my flavors in the same order I wrote them on my mixing memo pad.
 

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Forgot the decimal point a couple of times. Luckily caught it and just made it into a larger batch. I do now have 30ml of LA cream cheese icing in the fridge with a couple mls of nic added. oops. Now I open and close each flavor as I use it.
 

zeeter

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I try to keep everything in order and move it from the left to the right as I use it, but that doesn't mean mistakes don't happen from time to time. Fortunately they're usually only in the tenths of ML when making 30ml batches so it's not the end of the world, but once in a while that main ingredient will get accidentally swapped with a companion ingredient and there goes the whole mixture.

For nic I always put that in last and at 30ml it's always .9 ml per recipe. Fortunately I haven't had any problems with that, yet.

I keep the PG and VG in separate containers on my mixing board and have on occasion gone for the PG rather than the VG. That one is easy to catch before adding, though, due to the viscosity difference.
 

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