1. Wash mesh before hand, hot water and a little dish soap, then rinsed thoroughly and let it dry.
2. Cut your strip of mesh so the grain is going vertically, I use 500 but 400 should do just fine.
3. Start rolling with a paperclip, once you have it started remove the paperclip and roll tight enough to keep it together. You want the wick to be solid-ish (not a log...just solid-ish).
4. Run your rolled wick through a flame (I use a bic lighter) enough to make it more rigid and burn off any skin or debris. You're not "oxidizing", just another cleaning method and a way to make your mesh easier to work with.
5. Wrap your coil using the Petar K method. Use a drill bit that fits nicely in the wick hole (I use a 3/32 on my AGA-T) and space the wraps out evenly.
6. Insert the drill bit and secure your coil to the negative connection first. Gently push the wire around the screw and tighten it down snug. Now for the positive post, bring the top end of the coil around the post and secure it. Give it a few brief fires on a lower voltage to ensure they are glowing nicely.
7. Cut power to your mod, then back to the wick. Make sure it slides into the coil pretty freely, you want it to just "set" in there. If it is difficult at all to put in or take out adjust accordingly so it feels like it may slide out.
8. Power on your device. If your device has a built in resistance check, it should read the same ohms as before the wick was in it. Test fire your assembly again on a LOW voltage (I start at 3.0-3.2V). Watch for hotspots IMMEDIATELY, and have a poking device on hand.
9. Adjust your hotspots GENTLY, if you use too much force you will most likely get a short. In that case, kill power to the mod, slide your coil around a bit and give the coil a couple pokes and turn the power back on...the short should be solved. If not, slide it around again and adjust coils (it gets annoying when you can't get it, but don't give up).
10. When you get your hot spots resolved, and your coil is glowing nicely you will notice the wick oxidizing where your coils are touching it. This is what you want. Slowly work your coils up in voltage in .4ish increments until you get to around where you'll be vaping. Fill your tank up around 5/8 full (don't over fill tank with a new wick, it prevents wicking from fully working from my experiences).
11. Tilt your mod around 90* and watch the wick, you're watching for juice about to drip out of the top of the wick assembly. Then burn some juice. I start at a lower voltage then work it up as I go...this helps with seasoning it, lessens break-in time I believe.
12. VAPE
All credit for this goes to Thrasher. Without him I would be lost!
