AGA-T how to make refilling easier?

[lrage]

I have one on the way. It's my first rba. I've been doing this stuff for a long time, and think I'll get the wick and coil down OK. But I'm not interested in syringe filling at all. So from the start I need to do something different.

Can I just drill out the other wick hole to make it bigger and shove some cotton in it to plug it up or something?

What the best way to handle this "issue" for me?

 

[StaircaseWit]

I use a needle-tip bottle, although others are saying you can use a "standard" juice bottle tip and just press it firmly into the fill hole. I have yet to try that personally.

You could drill it but I wouldn't without first seeing how you get on. You may at some point want to carry it with the fill screw in place. Some are using this atty with the fill screw in place and reportedly getting good wicking (depends largely on your wick setup and what mesh you use).

 

[tartanraven]

An AGA-T with a wick installed is pretty much the most leak resistant gennie out there. Enlarging any of the holes will counteract this. At $1.00 a bottle, the needle bottles that StaircaseWit mentioned are invaluable...get one...or many.

 

[Thrasher]

yea i use a needle tip bottle myself. in an emergency i have done the regular tip against the hole trick and works ok.

 

[vapdivrr]

all those work ok, but what if you want to take out some juice? lets say you have just filled up your tank and for some reason you never quite got rid of a hotspot from an initial set-up, with all that juice in the tank it will be kind of hard to rectify. sometimes you will need to get the juice out and the best way is with a syringe.

 

[shortyjacobs]

all those work ok, but what if you want to take out some juice? lets say you have just filled up your tank and for some reason you never quite got rid of a hotspot from an initial set-up, with all that juice in the tank it will be kind of hard to rectify. sometimes you will need to get the juice out and the best way is with a syringe.

I just flip it upside down and use a juice bottle (needle tip or nipple tip) to suck it back out. Works fine.

 

[vapdivrr]

I just flip it upside down and use a juice bottle (needle tip or nipple tip) to suck it back out. Works fine.

i guess theres more ways to skin a cat, i guess if you are dead set against a syring, you can make due

 

[Thrasher]

I just flip it upside down and use a juice bottle (needle tip or nipple tip) to suck it back out. Works fine.

lol i did that at work with a juice bottle when icouldnt find my syringe

 

[CountSmackula]

I saw THIS today. It's the shizznit.

 

[eHuman]

You asked for easy, it can't get any easier than this:

 

[Viper8695]

I use these Needle Caps.

And a syringe to get liquid out of the tank.

 

[hoss1738]

Needle tip bottle should work fine

 

[k_s_]

You asked for easy, it can't get any easier than this:

Holy crap! Cool, thanks!

 

[Cyberslinger]

Yup. This works!

 

[Rader2146]

I take out the screw post that is next to the fill screw. Still works with eHuman's filling method and I haven't had any leaking problems. No need to fiddle with tool just to fill the tank.

 

[Conchord George]

I was able to top my tank off the other day by working a syringe down through the wick. I think the first time I tried it, I wasn't all the way through the bottom of the wick and some wicked out the top. Tool free, though!

 

[Ojen924]

Thanks for the tip.