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 08-18-2017, 02:28 PM   #1
xrundog
Contributing Editor
Herf Meister
 
xrundog's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Central, Iowa
Posts: 9,806
Kitty Litter Bead Incident

Had an interesting thing happen yesterday. I checked my humidors maybe a week ago and everything was fine except the coolerdor. RH was in the low 70s. That's a no-no. Should be 65-67%. I stuck some small containers of beads in there to take up slack. Checked yesterday and it was still high. Looking at the large container I could see beads on top. But after about 11 years they looked pretty grungy. So I pulled them out and gave them a stir. To my surprise the majority of the container held silica powder! I dumped that out, cleaned off the sticky container and refilled it with fresh kitty litter beads. The jug originally held seven pounds and I still have lots left. Anyway, checking today, the RH is back at 65%. The fresh beads are doing their job.
So, to answer a question asked long ago: Q: How long do kitty litter beads last? A: The kitty litter beads do in fact seem to have a finite life expectancy. And it seems to be around 10 years.
The humidifiers I have made with Climaxx or Heartfelt beads are older than that and are still doing the job fine.
And if you are reading this and thinking: Gee, I have one of Tim's humidors, do I need to check the beads? The answer is: Probably not. I always used Heartfelt beads in refurbs I did.
xrundog 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

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Kitty Litter ... how to use ??? N8DCJ The Cedar Room 7 08-01-2017 11:39 AM
kitty litter daggo66 The Cedar Room 3 12-23-2007 06:21 PM
Kitty Litter update vicsteele The Cedar Room 9 02-14-2007 01:01 PM
Kitty Litter? vicsteele The Cedar Room 18 02-16-2006 12:55 PM


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 02:45 AM.