Ideas on how to organise flavour stash
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I like that. Having to sit down on the carpet and reaching into the low cupboard, is getting to be work. Pulling out some of those should be easier.
I have a huge space issue and I need some mobility with my mixing gear, so I have settled for this.
I am slowly converting to nozzled concentrates to make weighing easier, but for now an abbreviation and colour coded categories works pretty well for me.
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For those who may not know, Max from Custom Carousels has become a supporting vendor and offers what looks to be a super storage solution.
Check out his custom carousels in his subforum and pics in the following thread:
https://www.ecigssa.co.za/thread-1-practical-compact-diy-ejuice-storage.t34619/
Check out his custom carousels in his subforum and pics in the following thread:
https://www.ecigssa.co.za/thread-1-practical-compact-diy-ejuice-storage.t34619/
Anyone got ideas for some sort of shelving or carousal for storing 100ml bottles? My home office is starting to look terrible with bottles just flipping everywhere.
Here is my idea of organizing. Every recipe has its own little box, so you just grab the box, and boom, everything you need is at hand.
A time saver, YES, a space saver, hell no.
For my small collection it works though
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So you have one bottle of Cap Sugar Cookie in the Pistachio RY4U box and another in the Funfetti box, one bottle of Vanilla Swirl in the Sucker Punch box and another in the Pistachio RY4U box? I make too many recipes to make such a system workable. It's a cool idea if you only mix up a few ADVs and are willing to duplicate concentrates, though.
I'm still looking in vain for compartment boxes. You'd think that in 2017, a plain cardboard box with an insert that makes compartments to store small bottles would be relatively easy to source. I think it would be easier to find dinosaur teeth.
I'm still looking in vain for compartment boxes. You'd think that in 2017, a plain cardboard box with an insert that makes compartments to store small bottles would be relatively easy to source. I think it would be easier to find dinosaur teeth.
Maybe contact these guys? http://www.thepackagingwarehouse.co.za/polystyrene-products
Scroll to: Polystyrene Seedling trays, they come in bigger sizes than pictured and you can write on it with a marker. I wonder if seedling trays from a nursery might be worth looking into if you want something stackable with compartments.
Another: https://www.olx.co.za/ad/seedling-trays-ID16bqJn.html
Guys, I've got a friend with a laser cutter. If you've got a design send it to me and I'll ask him how much it will cost. He normally cuts it out of 3mm superwood.
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My pleasure, the last link actually looks like a great option. Bargain at R1 a tray and it is translucent so you can see the labels through it as well even when stacked.
The trick will be to find one with holes that are juuust big enough to accommodate a concentrate bottle, preferably so that it lightly touches the sides and friction holds it in place, even if the box is tilted. I buy a lot of bottles and droppers from Westpack Lifestyle and my local one is right next to a Lifestyle Nursery. I never thought of seedling trays so I never popped into the nursery. But I shall certainly do so next time.
I have made progress. The cabinets are 280mm by 280mm square and are 420mm tall (outside dimensions). Each concentrate cabinet can store 150 10ml bottles. All in all quite compact and easily transportable. The doors on the concentrate cabinets are fully removable and are magnetically secured when closed.
The steeping cabinet can store 42 bottles the largest being a 50ml PET with witches hat lid. I fitted it with auto closing doors ... silent and un-slam able.
The steeping cabinet can store 42 bottles the largest being a 50ml PET with witches hat lid. I fitted it with auto closing doors ... silent and un-slam able.
Jeepers that is incredible!
OK, thanks to @Effjh's awesome idea to use seedling trays, I think I've found what I was looking for. Lifestyle Nursery didn't have suitable trays, nor any other nursery I phoned in my area. But some surfing led me to a plastic seedling tray manufacturer in Kempton Park. They make products like this:
They have one which contains 128 compartments, each of which is 28.5mm square and 38mm deep. A 10ml concentrate bottle typically used by DIY vendors is 25mm diameter and about 60mm tall. So it will be a comfortable fit. Cost is R15.01 each direct from the factory.
I had originally envisaged cardboard compartment boxes, and polystyrene seed trays also emerged as a possibility. But, on further reflection, rigid black plastic will be less prone to staining and general wear and tear. These will be perfect for my alphabetical and colour-coded system.
They have one which contains 128 compartments, each of which is 28.5mm square and 38mm deep. A 10ml concentrate bottle typically used by DIY vendors is 25mm diameter and about 60mm tall. So it will be a comfortable fit. Cost is R15.01 each direct from the factory.
I had originally envisaged cardboard compartment boxes, and polystyrene seed trays also emerged as a possibility. But, on further reflection, rigid black plastic will be less prone to staining and general wear and tear. These will be perfect for my alphabetical and colour-coded system.
Yeah, that's the one, thanks @Glytch. The reason I'm only responding now is because I just drove to Kempton Park to buy some. And these things are the business. I got six of them for around a hundred bucks - three to serve as bases, three as lids. At 128 concentrates per rack, that gives me individual compartmentalised storage for 384 concentrates.
I've refined my alphabetical system slightly. Instead of putting a coloured dot on the bottle cap, I will write a coloured code. I realised that I have, for example, 14 FA concentrates that start with C. So merely clustering them all together and colour-coding them will still entail me looking through a number of bottles to find the right one. So instead of making a red dot to signify FA, I'll write a short code in red, which not only signifies FA but gives me a pointer as to what concentrate it is. So, for the FA concentrates with C:
Crd = Cardomom
Crm = Caramel
Cu = Custard
CF = Cream Fresh
and so on.
That should allow me to find any concentrate I'm looking for literally within a couple of seconds. Now I have to sit down, sort all my concentrates out alphabetically, and do my labels. This may take a bit of graft but once I'm done, I will have a kick-butt storage and identification system, which allows me to find concentrates intuitively rather than having to consult a numbered list. Yay.
I've refined my alphabetical system slightly. Instead of putting a coloured dot on the bottle cap, I will write a coloured code. I realised that I have, for example, 14 FA concentrates that start with C. So merely clustering them all together and colour-coding them will still entail me looking through a number of bottles to find the right one. So instead of making a red dot to signify FA, I'll write a short code in red, which not only signifies FA but gives me a pointer as to what concentrate it is. So, for the FA concentrates with C:
Crd = Cardomom
Crm = Caramel
Cu = Custard
CF = Cream Fresh
and so on.
That should allow me to find any concentrate I'm looking for literally within a couple of seconds. Now I have to sit down, sort all my concentrates out alphabetically, and do my labels. This may take a bit of graft but once I'm done, I will have a kick-butt storage and identification system, which allows me to find concentrates intuitively rather than having to consult a numbered list. Yay.
Impossible! I'll pay you to do mine as well. I have looked at my heap of a concentrates contemplating this for months now and every time I get interrupted by the TV/Ecigssa forum/nothing in particular and promise myself I'll do it tomorrow... it's like groundhog day.
I have done it! Took me an hour or so but I got everything into neat alphabetical rows and then alphabetised each brand within the row, then inserted them into the racks in the order FA, TFA, Cap, FW, Inw, Other. Tomorrow I just need to do the colour codes on each cap and I'm done.
Even without the colour codes, it's already 300% better than what I had before. Now if I want a concentrate that starts with M, I go straight to the M row(s) and know where to look. With the codes, it will be an absolute doddle to find everything. Before, I was trying to remember which of three baskets I'd left a concentrate in.
Useless trivia for you vaping buffs: the most common letters for DIY concentrates are B, C, M, S and V. Way more than half my concentrates fall into these five letters alone.
Even without the colour codes, it's already 300% better than what I had before. Now if I want a concentrate that starts with M, I go straight to the M row(s) and know where to look. With the codes, it will be an absolute doddle to find everything. Before, I was trying to remember which of three baskets I'd left a concentrate in.
Useless trivia for you vaping buffs: the most common letters for DIY concentrates are B, C, M, S and V. Way more than half my concentrates fall into these five letters alone.
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