Setting up coolerdor

JZerby

We're doing some budget retweaking and I may not be doing much cigar buying after the summer. So I wanna keep some boxes of my favs around but don't have the funds to buy a really big humi, so I'm doing a coolerdor. My question is this: do you need to season something like that or just throw in some humidification with the cigars and leave it? I'm going with the Coleman 25 qt Party Stacker cuz that will hold what I know I'm going to be storing, if that helps.

The Sniper

Diamondog

Not sure what the weather is like there but after washing just leave it in the sun for a few days, sun does wonders for getting rid of smells from plastic...

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JZerby

The coolers i've been looking at don't have the spout. But i check my cigars a couple times a week anyway, so that's not gonna be a problem. If one did leave a spout open, could you place something like panty hose material over the hole to allow air flow but slow the amount of it? Like...to sort of balance it out?

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Diamondog

Not disputing the leave the spout open option but I have had coolers forever and they need nothing more than what they get from me opening them....I'm not sure I would want to leave something "open" spiders I'm guessing would love to get in there and plugging it with something hmmm? Don't worry about that, opening it every once in a while will do just fine and if you really wanna outfit get youself an oust fan...

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JZerby

taythegibs

When i did my first cooler i added my gel a couple of hours before the cigars so that the air had a chance to get some humidity in it, moost of what ive read says to just chuck it all in at once, but i didnt want to take a chance then...when i get 4.0 done ill probably do the same. the plastic cant absorb the water so it really isn't liek the wood that you want to saturate.

Russ55

JZerby

It wouldn't let me delete this post...lol

JZerby

Russ55

JZerby

Another question: temp. How do you bring it down to an acceptable temp if it goes too high?

Vision

Mine is sitting in an AC'd room. The wife isn't happy its on 24/7.... I will try to get to the electrical bill first.

Russ55

JZerby:

Another question: temp. How do you bring it down to an acceptable temp if it goes too high?

I turn the AC on to a higher setting for a while. If I feel its dangerously high, I might take blue ice, or ice packs, and wrap them in towels and set them next to, or on top of the cooler for a while. You have to be careful though. You don't want to change the temperature too rapidly.

Gray4lines

I think the Copernicus wiki be the way I go soon, as well. I have another question about the temp: say you have the air on and it gets nice and cool at night, like 67°. Will the cooler hold that temp longer than say a humidor would? Basically, does the insulation of a cooler add any benefit?

Russ55

Gray4lines:

I think the Copernicus wiki be the way I go soon, as well. I have another question about the temp: say you have the air on and it gets nice and cool at night, like 67°. Will the cooler hold that temp longer than say a humidor would? Basically, does the insulation of a cooler add any benefit?

Mine do. I have two wooden humis, one's a glass top, next to my coolers, and the coolers stay cooler longer. Keep in mind there are a lot of variables that you could probably fiddle with to get different results. I would say in general, the answer to your question is yes, they tend to.

JZerby

Yet another question. When one puts boxes in a cooler, is it better to leave the boxes open or closed? This sounds like it is probably like the leaving the cello on vs off thing, but I just wanna know what people have had the most success with or if there is a certain way this should be done.

Russ55

I've done both, but it doesn't matter. The boxes breathe fine when closed.

jgibv

hairnutz

Thats the same exact cooler I just used to build mine last week - works out perfect for me. I bought 5 kiln dried spanish cedar panels from ebay for like 25$ and used hot glue to line the bottom, sides and top. I also used a plano flat and wide tackle box glued to the lid with heartfelt beads. I dont know how to post picks but shoot me a PM if you want some pics.