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If you are still struggling to get a small bottle together there are some ideas here
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/diy-tubeless-sealant

http://forums.mtbr.com/29er-components/best-tubeless-brew-406115.html

Here you go, just put aside 3 days to read all 114 pages

It involves screenwash......

Buy a wrist support, lube, get someone to give you a helping hand

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the man is insatiable

A number of years I ago made some according to Stan's recipe, as available on the US patent site: http://goo.gl/aBwZV.

The recipe is:

3 parts liquid latex
7 parts water
6 parts polypropylene glycol (antifreeze)
0.25 parts "aggregate material" (cornmeal)

Worked fine. Only reason I've not bothered since is laziness.

For cornmeal, firstly you need really fine stuff, so you can't use polenta, which I've seen people suggest as a substitute, and secondly (and apologies if you already know this, but others might not), corn[i]starch[/i] is [b]not[/b] the same thing.

It's easy enough to get if you can't find it locally.

I just Googled for 'white cornmeal uk', and bought it online. I forget where, but I've just searched again, and there are loads of places knocking about.

Worked absolutely fine.

Yep, the recipe that I'm using is from the mtbr thread above, I think it was labelled as WSS V1 by a poster called Wadester:

1 part ATV Tubeless slime
1 part latex
1 part Propylene Glycol USP
2 parts deionised water

I only mix up 250ml at a time as it doesn't seem to have good "pot stability" in that the latex coagulates together into a "booger" (see the above mtbr thread for a long discussion on those...) when left in the bottle. But this doesn't happen when it's in the tyre, I guess the regular agitation of riding helps keep it separate.

Cost worked out at £6.26/litre which is pretty good compared to £27.46/litre when buying a 473ml bottle of Stan's for £12.99.

Works very well and the benefit of the slime is that it's green, so you can really see when it's working 🙂

2 parts deionised water

Have you tried with tap water? I wondered about that when I used the Stan's recipe, but tap water worked fine. It may well depend on where you live and whether or not you have hard or soft water, but whatever the water is here (I have no idea; it doesn't scale, does that mean it's soft?), it seemed to work fine.

3 parts liquid latex
7 parts water
6 parts polypropylene glycol (antifreeze)
0.25 parts "aggregate material" (cornmeal)