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Originally Posted by XTRazzer
I won't hold honesty against anyone. 
I guess I just wanted to have the current humidor be usable versus sitting and collecting dust. I can deal with the Rubbermaid cooler.
I will have to ponder the wine more as I typically keep the wines around 57°F right now for serving. Although most reds serve well at 65°F to 68°F so I might not notice. |
You could use the wine cooler as intended for wine, and put your cigars in a rubbermaid container with beads.
A humi won't work if you put it in there at a low temp. The fridge will dry it out like a popcorn fart because you'll have to leave the drain open.
The fridge will run at or under 40%RH and without an excellent airtight seal, no wooden humi will withstand that for long. Especially if it's not incredibly well made. They're not designed or intended to sit in a refrigerator. It's not what they're for, so that's reason enough not to do it.
It's a long story as to why, but it's not a good idea.
A rubbermaid container would work great, but it'd look ghetto.
Mind ya, I'm coming at you from a $500 budget, which would make a damn good looking piece of equipment that you can look at with pride and smile.
But that's the way I like my stuff.
I don't know you well enough to know what would make you happy, so all I can do is tell you what I'd do.
The reason I suggested you lean on Chuck is because he's got the same sort of perspective on "what looks nice" as I do. He's incredibly anal and wears a tinfoil hat, but he's a craftsman of the highest order and he'll do ya right.
The long story short is that you can keep wine in a cigar fridge that's converted to a humidor, but you can't keep cigars in a wine fridge that's a wine fridge (unless you can make absolutely 100% sure that the humi you put in there will hold, and as I mentioned earlier, a wood one is highly unlikely to withstand the atmosphere, whereas a rubbermaid container would.)