less than a month. We had the factory produce plenty

@Randy Holding down the button worked perfect this morning, that was definitely my issue! I do put the pen in a baby wipe warmer on medium heat overnight which I think helps with the flow (29 gauge). But my primary reason for using the wipe warmer is it eliminated the subQ lumps I was getting when injecting cold.

@bobbish That was a good idea. It turns out though that my root issue was that the URL for the COA was too long. So I used tinyurl to shorten it and now things work fine

Thats a good question for @randy … I think he swaps them but when i was doing 4 peptides like bpc, TB, KPV, Ghk in all different pens i would use the same needle and toss it when done. Got the blend now so not needed. However i never mixed the needle with my RETA

@cmastro I use the phone soap.products, but they are more of a contained box product.

@researchcat yeah, check out @southernaminos they still have SS-31, Randy said so in his last email.

The China sellers on Amazon have dropped out for the most part. My last purchase was from a HK seller. Search amazon for Biomed Solution Sterile Syringe Filter.

@Steve Im pretty much of a pen connoisseur as well. I have bought all of Randys pens and some others. So in my personal view i love my V1, why? Because it has a clicking action that i like. The V2-V3 practically, you push and its goes so you need to be more of an intermediate user if your trying to go slow. The new auto Gausen pen, is were i keep my Reta, its pretty bad ass, but i dont think i would swap pen vials or have 10 auto pens either. Randy just got a new Gausen pen not automatic im going to test out.

https://amzn.to/49WhVRd

@Bubba, the pens go down to 1 unit; not sure why you would want half a unit. Just double the back water when you reconstitute and use 1 unit. I think Jeff covered this on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geNpx5sJH3k. Basically, if you use as little as 1 unit, the little drip at the end of the needle contains more peptide than if you were using 5 units. I normally reconsitiute things so i'm doing 10units....Unless it's GHK-CU or something that stings, then maybe 20 units.

@mrjoshua44 It’s funny, I have cut my drinking by 90% or more since going on tirzepatide. My wife moved from Ozempic to Tirz and she hasn’t seen any reduction in desire for booze at all. The variability in these effects fascinates me. Think of the money we’re saving! Well, I am spending all that money on peptides and peptide accessories, so maybe not saving that much.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks. I do research almost immediately out of the fridge. I also misspoke and meant to say the needle I use to transfer the peptides from the vial to the pen cartridge is a 25 gauge.

https://peptidecritic.com/store/5-3ml-glass-cartridges-for-v2-reusable-pen

@PeptideEd Yeah, but you can easily simplify this by figuring out where you want to get to and backing into it. If you want to get to 1mg, you just reconstitute with the same 1ml, round to 11, and at 91 units you’re getting ~1.032 mg per shot. I tend to be very precise in doing my recon math, but at the same time, when I am arguing with friends over whether they should research 5 units or 6 units, we’ve gone overboard and should either add more bac water(if possible) or worry about it less. (If a difference of 1 unit is going to make you sick or otherwise impact our research, imo, we should definitely be taking a step back to reconsider our process.) The good thing about this is that you can adjust the math a few different ways to get as precise as you want to if you don’t mind a little more work on the front end.

Randy, thank you for the feedback and direction, much appreciated!

Thank you, both!

I am in a hotel right now as my first time traveling with peptides. I bought this from Amazon and the freezer packs lasted the entire 6 hours from my house to the hotel and were still frozen and solid. I had it in my carry on and TSA never blinked or asked me to remove it. In the hotel I put it in the fridge. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLC8YF6F?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Thanks. I looked again on Amazon but still could only find 30g or 32g luer-lock needles. The only 31g I could find were the needle/syringe combos. Strange. Oh well, I decided to buy the 32g 4mm.

I have a 1.5 year old v1 thats lived in the fridge its entire life. Still as accurate as day one.

The sodium from each most likely forms a bond then. Thanks!