Question about Herfadors
Ok, so I was perusing the recent Ccom catalog, and came across the deal for 5 Camacho Pre-Embargo's + Herfador and jumped on such a sweet deal. So far so good - the sticks smell great and I was just about to head outside to smoke 'em, but when I looked at the herfador inside, I was a bit puzzled
Inside is the typical junk puck, so I thought I could just replace it with beads - turns out that the green foam is wafer-thin, and the room inside the puck is so small that there's almost no room to put the beads in. If I try to jam them in, the beads just fall through the holes in the puck - the puck is so small, I can't even insert a wire mesh to keep them in, because it uses up all the room. So now I have a herfador without any humidification inside
So I'm wondering - how do you guys humidify these things? Water pillow? Buy a bigger one next time?
Inside is the typical junk puck, so I thought I could just replace it with beads - turns out that the green foam is wafer-thin, and the room inside the puck is so small that there's almost no room to put the beads in. If I try to jam them in, the beads just fall through the holes in the puck - the puck is so small, I can't even insert a wire mesh to keep them in, because it uses up all the room. So now I have a herfador without any humidification inside
So I'm wondering - how do you guys humidify these things? Water pillow? Buy a bigger one next time?
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BTW, how'd you like the PE? That is a stick I really want to try, but cannot justify the price at this point, even for the samplers and can't justify a single when they can be had so much less per stick in the sampler
If you go for the Holiday sampler in the Ccom catalog, you could probably split it with someone on the forums; $50 is steep, but $25 for 2 sticks and a herfador/3-sticks and no herfador ain't too shabby
At any rate, I've been toying around with the humi and found a solution that doesn't take up any room/allows me to carry all 5 cigars with humidification. The water pillow is a great idea, but I wanna be able to carry churchills, which leaves no room for the pillow; and the tube of beads takes up a slot that could be used for another cigar
As I said before, if you take the puck out and remove the green foam, you'll see that 1) the slots in the puck are large enough that beads will slip through, and 2) the puck is so small, that you can't put a wire mesh over the holes to keep the beads in, else all the room will be taken up.
So after a little playing around, it turns out, that when you order beads, they come in all sizes (though you can only tell if you look closely) - most of the beads in the bag are so small that they slip through the holes in the puck, but some of them are large enough that they don't slip through. So what I did was go through my bag of beads bit by bit until I found about 10-15 beads that were big enough not to slip through the pucks holes (yes, there's only enough room for 10-15 beads).
Now, even with this method, there's only enough room for 1 layer of beads, but it should be enough to provide proper humidification for a week or so