What do you use to measure ounces when diluting?

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  1. Kaban

    Kaban Welcome to Detailing

    Hi fellas,

    I noticed many products require the process of diluting the product itself with water.

    For example, to make clay lube you can mix one ounce of ONR with water in a 32oz. bottle. How do you know how much an ounce is? Do you guys use a measuring tool of some sort like a syringe or do you guesstimate?

    I'd really like to know so that I can start using appropriate tools to make exact measures!

    Thanks a bunch!
     
  2. rwright

    rwright Birth of a Detailer

    Is this a joke? :shead:
     
  3. snowking724

    snowking724 Any Rag Vehicle Washer

    Some bottles have marking on them or you can use any measuring cup from your kitchen.
     
  4. Perfections

    Perfections Birth of a Detailer

    Autogeek.net under "what's new" 1 and 3 oz measuring tools, used by every single detailer out there, it's alittle known secret so you must be new to detailing :)
     
  5. Dubbin1

    Dubbin1 Jedi Nuba

    It's called a measuring cup...
     
  6. P1et

    P1et Official DB Moderator

    This thread is awesome!!!
     
  7. jjl

    jjl Birth of a Detailer

    Cough syrup measuring cup for the dilutions that call for capfuls (.5 - 2 ozs) and I have a small measuring cup that for those larger dilutions. You could get creative and get something clear and most people have measuring spoons at home and draw lines for the different volumes you need. Lots of options here!
     
  8. Kilo6_one

    Kilo6_one DB Forum Supporter

    :thumb::popcorn::support:
     
  9. luke093

    luke093 Welcome to Detailing

    Shot glass for my soaps :p Otherwise, measurements on the spraybottles
     
  10. GDAL

    GDAL Guest

    walmart sells a really small measuring cup that measures up to 5 oz. Or you can always buy the HD spray bottles with the pre-measured dilution ratios.
     
  11. 911Fanatic

    911Fanatic DB Pro Supporter

    I use little measuring cups like the ones for cough syrup. They are measured up to 30ml which is one ounce.
     
  12. Deep Gloss Auto Salon

    Deep Gloss Auto Salon DB Pro Supporter

    Same here.....


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  13. Emile

    Emile Welcome to Detailing

    If it's a big dilution, like 3:1 I'll just fill up my an empty spray bottle to 24oz and the remaining 8oz of product. Obviously you need to pickup spray bottles that have ounce or mL markings on them.

    If it's a small dilution, like 2oz I use a set of plastic measuring cups. If I have to be very very precise, I have several syringes, some of them measure up to 12mL at a time and some of them up to 60mL (2oz) at a time. Approximately 30mL per ounce.

    A couple of plastic yellow funnels from AutoZone (about $1 each) are a big help when filling up spray bottles.
     
  14. agpatel

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  15. agpatel

    agpatel OD On Detailing

    Actually.....1oz ~= 29.5735 mL...come on Ken!
     
  16. Perfections

    Perfections Birth of a Detailer

    But it was fun to call it a measuring tool lol :)
     
  17. Kaban

    Kaban Welcome to Detailing

    Lol thanks for the help fellas! And yes this was a serious question....
     
  18. domino

    domino Welcome to Detailing

    i use the cup of my palms placed under each other

    also works for receiving holy communion at church
     
  19. kyoshiro

    kyoshiro DB Forum Supporter

    I eye the volume of the solution and the volume of the water as it goes into the container
    simply by measuring the flow * the amount of time lapsed, you can also tell how much vol is going in
    or you can choose to measure how many cm of liquid is going down * the width and length of the stream and come to an answer

    or when i simply too tired to do mathematics, i'll just use the markings in my kwazars
     
  20. billyblooshoes

    billyblooshoes DB Forum Supporter

    thats actually a really good idea ankeet. i had forgotten about them since high school chemistry i think.
     

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