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Accessory Discussion / Reviews>Inexpensive beads?
colinb913 09:38 PM 03-12-2010
I am talking under $8.. Thats all I have at the moment, and am in dire need of beads. Any one have any good suggestions?

Thanks
Colin
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Mugen910 09:42 PM 03-12-2010
This discussion always comes up every few months...Let me save you some time and flaming brother...

1) Don't go cheap on taking care of your cigars.
2) Why spend so much $ on cigars and crap out on humidification? (kinda like shelling out hundreds on fine wine and drinking it out of plastic cups.)
c) You may not do it now but eventually your stash will outgrow how much you smoke, hence you'll start accidentally aging cigars. You don't want to smoke aged cigars that have not been taken care of properly.

Good luck
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Mpython24 09:44 PM 03-12-2010
http://heartfeltindustries.com/
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colinb913 09:45 PM 03-12-2010
mpython, cash. Thank you!
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Mpython24 09:50 PM 03-12-2010
Originally Posted by colinb913:
mpython, cash. Thank you!
not a problem dude. Just sharing what people shared with me.

glad it helped. :-)
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colinb913 09:52 PM 03-12-2010
Yep, just ordered up a few of the sheets and a tube!
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bobarian 09:56 PM 03-12-2010
Originally Posted by colinb913:
Yep, just ordered up a few of the sheets and a tube!
You wont be disappointed, the few extra dollars you spend today will protect your investment for years to come. It is well worth the sacrifice of a cigar or two. :-)
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jsnake 10:39 PM 03-12-2010
Spend the money and go with Heartfelt beads!

I had a friend who bought cheap beads. He sent me a pound of them. They are trash and do not even come close to the quality of Heartfelt beads. These things stink and I don't want that smell on my cigars. When I spray them to charge them they explode. It takes forever for them to charge. I have half a pound of Heartfelt beads and side by side the quality really is there.
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Tashaz 03:45 AM 03-13-2010
I have 2.5lbs of heartfelt's product. Have never looked back. Cost nearly as much to ship them here as the original cost. They are not expensive if you look at what your getting them to deal with. 6K in the wineador. 0.15K to humidify is cheap in comparison methinks. *S*
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colinb913 01:25 PM 03-13-2010
So true, has anyone had any experience with the Heartfelt sheets??
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jmsremax 01:52 PM 03-13-2010
I use shiala's beads now being made/sold by mike (cigarnut). I don't get why you would want a CHEAP product to protect and season your EXPENSIVE cigars. :-)
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Tenor CS 01:53 PM 03-13-2010
I have the sheets. I keep them in my vino, and only use them for temporary humidity control in travel humis. For that purpose, they work great!
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eber 02:06 PM 03-13-2010
I was thinking about getting some sheets to use in my travel humi when I will be gone for more than 1 or 2 days. right now I have a mix of heartfelt 65% beads in my Vino and and extremely overkill amount in my desktop (2-8oz bags in one 100ct humi :-)) just keeping them in there until my new 16ct wine cooler is ready.
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Darrell 02:07 PM 03-13-2010
If you're looking to cut corners, go ahead and put the boxes in your underwear drawer with a wet sponge, like your Grand Dad used to do. :-)
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icehog3 02:12 PM 03-13-2010
Originally Posted by Darrell:
If you're looking to cut corners, go ahead and put the boxes in your underwear drawer with a wet sponge, like your Grand Dad used to do. :-)
My GrandDad never did that.
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Emjaysmash 02:15 PM 03-13-2010
Originally Posted by Darrell:
If you're looking to cut corners, go ahead and put the boxes in your underwear drawer with a wet sponge, like your Grand Dad used to do. :-)
Originally Posted by icehog3:
My GrandDad never did that.
I was just telling Darrell that dirty underwear actually holds RH better than clean underwear. That, and there's a nice marrying of flavors from dirty underwear!

:-)
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colinb913 02:19 PM 03-13-2010
Lol calm down guys. :-) I got some heartfelt beads, and sheets, so I didn't skimp.
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Emjaysmash 02:24 PM 03-13-2010
Originally Posted by colinb913:
Lol calm down guys. :-) I got some heartfelt beads, and sheets, so I didn't skimp.
Nice.

Thanks for posting this thread, btw. It has made me re-think my current humidification devices and I am planning on getting some beads soon enough.
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colinb913 02:25 PM 03-13-2010
Yeah, I was tired of the horrible humidity fluctuation from just having the puck that came with my humi. So I figured drop the money now to keep them in good health.
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Tenor CS 02:27 PM 03-13-2010
I think I remember Dave from Heartfelt telling me that the sheets would hold their humidity for 10-14 days assuming your sticks were already properly humidified and you didn't open the travel humi too often.
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