Part 2 of my Reload RTA wicking guide
Step 5 - time to start putting the wicks in the well. How I cut the cotton means there will be barely any showing in the inlet (green circle below), instead nearly all of it sits just above this behind the threads. Because you raked a fair bit of material away earlier it should make it easier to plug the well in two halves fairly easily (see my blue line for the mid way mark). I’ve already fed one side down for this pic below.
When feeding the wick in; start from the bottom of the cotton and push it all the way down each pass, this will pull more cotton in as you go...keep going until it looks like my cotton on the left side.
The cotton should not be feeling really tight in the well when you’re done feeding it all in (if it does pull it back out and go back to the earlier raking step to rinse and repeat.
Step 6 - check your work. I like leaving the area neat and tidy, this means when you done moving the wick it should sit nicely over the raised post block (blue square). The other critical area to watch out for is making sure you haven’t left gaps at the sides (green arrow)
When your done the cotton should be filling the well up from all angles, not be too tight (rather a fluffy plug)
Also you won’t see much cotton sitting in the juice inlet
Step 7 - juice up the cotton ...if it looks like this after you juiced it (not the colour rather the way it swelled) you are good to go! ..notice I have removed any cotton from the threading carefully sculpting...you don’t want to undo your hard work because of anything hanging over the threads
Step 8 - put the top back on, reverse thread it just to make sure it’s not snagged any cotton in the threads, then screw it down...if it feels scratchy you have cotton in the threads...stop remove the cap just to check and sort the problem out before trying again
Once the chamber/tank is secured back on fill the tank a quarter way just to check it’s wicking ok. If you did everything right you’ll be chain vaping the whole tank no issues.
Hope it helps