It is super easy and so not time consuming. I can probably build a coil and wick it in less than ten minutes. I do build micro coils, which take a little longer. There's a great thread on micro coils here:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/reos-mods/389074-micro-coil-rba-your-reo.html
I wind my 30 gauge kanthal around a 1/16th inch drill bit. Around ten winds yields about 1.9 ohms. Keep the winds tight, put it in the Squid, check resistance, dry fire until coil is red hot then squeeze it together with needle nose pliers, let it cool, roll up some organic cotton, feed it through, soak it with juice and let it saturate for a few minutes, vape away!
I can usually get a few days out of a wick, but I usually re-wick daily, literally takes more time for the wick to saturate than swapping it out. I do dry burn the coil while the wick is out. My last coil lasted several weeks, probably would have lasted longer but I wanted to try one less wind.
I like the IGO's, except for the size. The big advantage I see is the juice well in the bottom. With the squid I kept over filling and it would leak out the air hole while in my pocket. My solution has been to put an O-ring covering the stock air hole, and drill a new hole a few mm higher.
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