Just got mine in today. Opened it up and filled it to see what the out of the box experience was like. HORRIBLE! The stock wick doesn't bring up hardly any juice, and every single hit tastes burnt and caustic. You can even see the coil begin to glow red while vaping; completely dry!
Took it apart and removed that awful wick and wire. Wound a strip of 400 mesh about 2" long x 1/2" wide around a paper clip and bent it in a u-shape. Oxidized the mesh, and wound my coil on the mesh, then pulled the paper clip out, leaving me a u-shaped mesh tube and coil. Simply inserted the mesh ends through the top plate just like the fiber wick, hooked it up, and filled with juice. Aaaah. MUCH better. To fill though, had to turn it upside down and slightly pull out the bottom to get a small crack, then inserted my syringe through the crack and filled it almost full, then simply pushed the bottom cap in place and I'm ready to go.