Go Back   Cigar Weekly Community Forums and Discussion Groups > Smoking Post > The Cedar Room

The Cedar Room A place for cigar storage and cigar accessories discussions.

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
Old 02-06-2007, 08:38 PM   #1
maduromadness
Banned
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 277
The Amount of Time Needed to Soak the Humistat Sponge with D

How long do you have to let the distilled water soak into the green humistat sponge when you recharge the humistat on a humidor?

The way I do it is I pour a generous amount of distilled water inside the top of the humistat where the slots are and I leave it laying flat with the water filled all the way to the top inside the green humistat sponge for 5 to 6 minutes. I then pour out the distilled water, then shake the humistat so all the water comes out and then I refill the humistat again for a second time with distilled water. The second time around, I don't let the humistat sit at all with the water inside it. After I fill it with distilled water for a second time, I just shake the water out and wipe down the humistat with a paper towel.
Then I place it into the humidor.

Is this procedure that I'm using alright? Am I overdoing it by placing too much distilled water inside the humistat's green sponge? I make sure that I always shake the humistat a few times so no excess distilled water is present inside the humistat in order to prevent any distilled water from getting on my cigars. I then wipe the humistat dry with a paper towle and put it back inside the humidor. Is this a proper way to recharge the green sponge in the humistat?

ALSO, do you think that letting the green sponge soak for 5 to 6 minutes with the distilled water in it will cause the humistat sponge to give off too much humidity inside the humidor? I currently own four of the 25 count humidors and two of the 500 count Salvatore Footlocker type humidors. I use the same exact method that I described above for all of my humidors to recharge them.

Please tell me if the method which I am using to recharge all of my humidors is acceptable or whether I am doing anything wrong that will result in my cigars getting damaged with too much excess humidity from my soaking the humistats with a lot of distilled water for too long?
Thanks
maduromadness is offline   Reply With Quote
 

Bookmarks
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 06:08 AM.