What to do about my smokes - dry!!

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Kreth

If the cooler's leaky, sure they would.
To the OP: Don't add water to the beads. just dampen a sponge slightly with distilled water and put it in the cooler. You want to rehydrate your cigars gradually. If you do it too quick, the wrappers can split.
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That's exactly right.
You wouldn't think a cooler would leak. I have a 70 quart cooler upstairs that I used to precondition beads. I started having all sorts of trouble trying to keep the beads at 65%.
Somehow it warped along the edge where the lid seals.
I had to put weatherstripping all around it and put a couple brass catches on it. Now it works pretty good.
On top of that, one of the latches it had on it snapped off. I'm not real impressed by the quality of the cooler, to say the least.

There's a thread over in accessory discussion where you can download the instructions, and I know Michael has them at his site.