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how to make a coolidor?

ironhorseironhorse Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 469
There have been numerous references to a coolidor on here and I am wondering how you make one. Obviously a cooler and some kind of humidification. But can someone take me through how to set it up?

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  • bass8844bass8844 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 416
  • alienmisprintalienmisprint Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,961
    If you really want to get jiggy with it, you can break up some cigar boxes and line the inside of the cooler with spanish cedar. I actually covered the bottom of my two coolerdors with loose tobacco, I find it helps hold the humidity (and it smells great).
  • Renaissance_ManRenaissance_Man Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 972
    alienmisprint:
    If you really want to get jiggy with it, you can break up some cigar boxes and line the inside of the cooler with spanish cedar. I actually covered the bottom of my two coolerdors with loose tobacco, I find it helps hold the humidity (and it smells great).
    Where do you get that loose tobacco from?
  • alienmisprintalienmisprint Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,961
    Renaissance_Man:
    alienmisprint:
    If you really want to get jiggy with it, you can break up some cigar boxes and line the inside of the cooler with spanish cedar. I actually covered the bottom of my two coolerdors with loose tobacco, I find it helps hold the humidity (and it smells great).
    Where do you get that loose tobacco from?
    I got mine from boxes of La Vieja Habana. The cigars come packed in loose tobacco in the box. If you go to a B&M that sells the LVH line, I imagine you could talk them into letting you get the old boxes (the boxes themselves are cardboard) which have the tobacco in them.
  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    You may want to check the seal on the cooler as well. When I first purchased mine the seal was great, but somewhere along the line it got out of whack and I could not maintain humidity. It was a simple enough fix, I just lined the lip of the lid with some rubber tape, but I'm not sure how long it was like that before I caught it...the cigars don't seem to be affected, so maybe all is well.
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