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A Couple Of My Coolers
dpnewell Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 03-16-2009
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This is posted for diecinque and glongoria who made a request.

Coolers are cheapo Igloos, available at Walmart for $18 and under. Wash them out with baking soda, let them dry in the sun, and then hot glue old cigar box tops to the sides (for your cedar lining).

Bins are also from Walmart and cost 50 cents each ($6 total). You will need 12 of the 6-1/2" x 10-1/2" size.

Next you need 12 21" lengths of 1/2" x 1" hardwood. I think 6 48" pieces cost me around $8. Using either low profile truss screws or hot glue, attach 3 bins side by side to 2 lengths of hardwood.

Now attach felt furniture pads to the top of the bins in line with the wood strips. This increases capacity to 3 sticks high per bin, and allows the wood rails from the bin above to rest on the pads, and not on your sticks.

Lastly, add a digital hygrometer and beads.

With hygrometer, you're around $40 - $45 per cooler. Each bin will hold 21 churchills long ways. You can fit 36 Robs up to 5-1/2" long width wise, or 40+ Coronas. You can also mix sticks going in each direction for maximum storage. Right now I have around 350 to 400 sticks per cooler. I plan on making dividers for the bins to further increase capacity.

Of course you can use this system in larger coolers too. Just grab a pack of the bins from housewares before heading over to the coolers. That way, you can try the bins out to make sure they'll work in the cooler you want.
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05busa Offline
#2 Posted:
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Look at you fancy nancy!!!
fishinguitarman Offline
#3 Posted:
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SAWEET!
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#4 Posted:
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Way too over the top for me.

My method:

1) Buy Rubbermaid brand cooler (hard refrigerator plastic lined, little to no odor from the start)
2) Wash it out & dry it.
3) Dump cigars boxes in. Place loose cigars in older boxes.
4) Add one 4oz jar of humi-care gel
5) close lid and go open a beer.
tj2001cobra Offline
#5 Posted:
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My cooler is crying and says it wants to be like your cooler!

Damn OCD neat freaks! LOL!
MACS Offline
#6 Posted:
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Or... just forego all that work, clean out the cooler, get a hygro and some beads, and put BOXES of cigars in there!
AR Offline
#7 Posted:
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Yeah my cooler is a mess
Secondz Offline
#8 Posted:
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#4...yea I like the sound of that better...lol
DrafterX Offline
#9 Posted:
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I think I see a beetle...
hnixon12 Offline
#10 Posted:
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DP, how many of these coolers do you have?
delarob Offline
#11 Posted:
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I tried the cooler thing one time. I came home and my beer was preparing for a frontal assault to take back their coolers.

I bought a cabinet humi and solved the problem.
delarob Offline
#12 Posted:
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Nice job though.
pacman357 Offline
#13 Posted:
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Man...my OCD salutes you...but that is just too friggin' much work right there. BTW, tubs at Wally's only run about $4. Then again, perhaps y'all need to worry about heat more than I do.

I'd love to be that organized. Drives me nuts when I want a specific cigar and don't know where one might be. However, I just don't have the time to be this anal.
izkeh Offline
#14 Posted:
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Posts: 457
Dude, niiiiice setup.

I, however, find TG's method very similar to my own.
roadlaw Offline
#15 Posted:
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nice job brotha!
huntero1975 Offline
#16 Posted:
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can you build me one.. i would be happy to pay you the 50.00 for one....
dpnewell Offline
#17 Posted:
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Thanks all, but personally I think these are a mess in desperate need of re-orginization. Now I understand how some of you "find" a stick or two you forgot you had. I know what I have and where it is, but that’s just the way I am.

Nixon,
Right now I have 3 coolers, 1 - 250 count desktop and 1 - 120 count desktop. Trying to figure out how to set up #4 without the wife freaking out.

Huntero,
And what, another $50 to crate and ship it? Though I used screws, you can do one in under a half hour with a hot glue gun.
t33bone Offline
#18 Posted:
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cool and creative

u dont want to see my mess in a cooler. LOL
05busa Offline
#19 Posted:
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HeHe!!
huntero1975 Offline
#20 Posted:
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50.00extra it better come full of cigars why you have to be so greedy. i was trying to be nice and support your new bussiness not looking to let you take my head off with profit..lol..

just kidding those are great man...
glongoria Offline
#21 Posted:
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Thanks, dpnewell, I'm gonna give this a try.
05busa Offline
#22 Posted:
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Make me a special Torano one will ya!!
selfevident26 Offline
#23 Posted:
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wow! Very nice. Its a HELL of a lot more organized than my stuff, that's for sure.
pacman357 Offline
#24 Posted:
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#17 Hey, don't knock the self-surprise route. A week or two back, I found an old Perdomo2 maddy in a tub. Not the ones they are selling now, this is from the original Perdomo2 lines. Had to have at least three years on it. Damned good cigar, that was.
pacman357 Offline
#25 Posted:
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BTW, if I organized my stash this way, I'd likely need a couple of weeks of vacation to do so. I'd like to be able to take the time off, but that's not my idea of a relaxing vacation.
kleick Offline
#26 Posted:
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Stage 1- collect underpants!
Stage 2- ...
Stage 3- PROFIT!
05busa Offline
#27 Posted:
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Hmmm
duwan Offline
#28 Posted:
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Wow!! Those make my coolers look like ****. Maybe I need to get a little more organized. NOT!!!
goldberg580 Offline
#29 Posted:
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Very nice and creative. I keep a snap lock tupperware bowl, with the o-ring in the lid, from wal-mart and a Boveda pack in my desk at work. Boveda will last 6 months.
05busa Offline
#30 Posted:
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woop woop
whodeeni Offline
#31 Posted:
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I'm with #4, but i like the slats and tray concept....
05busa Offline
#32 Posted:
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maybe he will build you one cheap!!
Nicar Offline
#33 Posted:
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#26

You stole my business plan!!
plinytheelder Offline
#34 Posted:
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Way too organized...

Nice though.
derfladnar Offline
#35 Posted:
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Damm I just spent 600 bucks on mine. and it ain't looking that organized.
on63 Offline
#36 Posted:
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I used to be organized like so. But my method now is exactly like TG's except that lately I'm not keeping as many cigars onhand.
blueboy Offline
#37 Posted:
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Nice collection of Kristoff's!!
dpnewell Offline
#38 Posted:
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^Thanks Blueboy. I'm down to around 30. It's hard to tell in the photos, but most of those bins are stacked 3 sticks high. Oh, and that bin to the far right, the one that looks like it's full of Diablos, well that's just an optical illusion, lol.
05busa Offline
#39 Posted:
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HeHe!!
gmdrews Offline
#40 Posted:
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Saw this and went buy everything to make one. Not even close to having enough cigars to justify it but one day I will
05busa Offline
#41 Posted:
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Hmmmm
njstone Offline
#42 Posted:
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Cool bins, man! I like the trays a lot.

I use bins too, but rather than "make" anything this cool, I just put all my cigars in cedar cigar boxes inside the bins. I also just use beads for rH.

I think bins work GREAT. I feel like my sticks are aging faster, if anything. I might actually start putting some in plastic bags instead of cedar boxes because they are aging too fast, lol.
gmdrews Offline
#43 Posted:
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are beads easier than buying an electric humidifier?
05busa Offline
#44 Posted:
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sure
gmdrews Offline
#45 Posted:
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Imgonna try to take a picture of mine and post it
05busa Offline
#46 Posted:
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HeHe
dubleuhb Offline
#47 Posted:
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To organized, but looks good. I need an assistant to organize mine, every time I start I find a good cigar that I forgot about and go smoke it and forget about what I started.
gimbel Offline
#48 Posted:
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I too have gone the way of Coleman. $52 for a 120qt at Walmart and it hold 600+ by the box plus some additional bags for loose storage.
hvega1986 Offline
#49 Posted:
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very nice setup indeed. I have a converted wine fridge that im trying to get organized. It looks purty enough on the outside that the wifey lets me keep it in the living room. I dont think she'd let me get away with a coolidor in the living room.
05busa Offline
#50 Posted:
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dubleuhb wrote:
To organized, but looks good. I need an assistant to organize mine, every time I start I find a good cigar that I forgot about and go smoke it and forget about what I started.

Ill help...send them over
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