Dr. Xikar
The Knife Doctor
As for distribution of beads, I have a few recommendations (of course this varies on the size of the humidor)
First of all - IT's always cheaper to buy the beads buy the pound or the half pound (because then you aren't paying for the container, and you have more beads to use! Hell, if you can't use them, you can always sell them in the Trading Section. Everyone needs more beads!)
Second - For containers. Run out to Wal-Mart or Target, and buy a set of nylon stockings (yup, you will get weird looks.) The shearest, thinnest stockings they have. You can use these to make the bead pouches. IT's $.97 at my local walmart, and you can make 15-20 baseball sized pouches out of just one pair.
Third - Size of pouch. I've used heartfelt beads in everything from 25ct humidors to 28 bottle wine coolers (and that's just me. Some people use standing fridges!) In my experience (and by general consensus), the more surface area of the beads showing, the better. That's why I don't make one big 1lb log of beads. I have 9 pouches per wine cooler. In my wine coolers, the bead sacks are a bit smaller than a baseball, and I have 9-12 per humidor. In the 25ct humidors, I used a single golf-ball sized sack, and in a 100 count humidor, 3-4 golf ball sized pouches. This allows you to distribute the bead sacks around so that humidity is more normalized throughout the humidor (only one of my wine coolers has computer fans built into it, so many small pouches of beads is the only way my humidity spreads through the whole humi.)
Any other questions?
First of all - IT's always cheaper to buy the beads buy the pound or the half pound (because then you aren't paying for the container, and you have more beads to use! Hell, if you can't use them, you can always sell them in the Trading Section. Everyone needs more beads!)
Second - For containers. Run out to Wal-Mart or Target, and buy a set of nylon stockings (yup, you will get weird looks.) The shearest, thinnest stockings they have. You can use these to make the bead pouches. IT's $.97 at my local walmart, and you can make 15-20 baseball sized pouches out of just one pair.
Third - Size of pouch. I've used heartfelt beads in everything from 25ct humidors to 28 bottle wine coolers (and that's just me. Some people use standing fridges!) In my experience (and by general consensus), the more surface area of the beads showing, the better. That's why I don't make one big 1lb log of beads. I have 9 pouches per wine cooler. In my wine coolers, the bead sacks are a bit smaller than a baseball, and I have 9-12 per humidor. In the 25ct humidors, I used a single golf-ball sized sack, and in a 100 count humidor, 3-4 golf ball sized pouches. This allows you to distribute the bead sacks around so that humidity is more normalized throughout the humidor (only one of my wine coolers has computer fans built into it, so many small pouches of beads is the only way my humidity spreads through the whole humi.)
Any other questions?
