Gonna be a party pooper - See that folks are bidding up to and over $19.00 for the Don Salvatore Digital Hydrometer. I picked up 2 after trying to get them at the auction but geeez these bidders keep pushing up the price.

with info from my friends, i have made my own humidifiers. all the humidors had calibrated hygrometers (remember they are factory + or - about 4% to 7%, including digital. after several months, i don't even look at the hygrometers very often. when i do, they are 69% to 72%.

incidently a hydrometer measure specific gravity, ie the weight of something in relation to water. have you forgotten your Aristotle already? eureka!!

I always thought hygrometers measured 'relative humidity'. What relative humidity means, is the warmer air is, the more water vapor it can "hold".

Relative humidity is a measure of the amount of water in the air, compared with the amount of water the air can hold at the temperature it happens to be when you measure it.

What does gravity have to do with it?

Gravity keeps the cigars in place and also keeps us from floating around like leaves in the wind! Remeber Issac Newton and the apple?!?!?! Ha Ha, couldn't pass that opportunity to get in a little jab! Charlie

Isaac who and what apple? How the hell did he manage to keep the apple lit? Or even light it in the first place? Were there people overbidding on his apples? Were horses killed because of the overbidding? Did he leave the cello on his apple? I could go on, you know, inquiring minds....

If a hydrometer was in the woods, with no one to see it, and it fell, would it still be effected by gravity?

Who can foresee the unforseen? How is that for double talk? However, if the apple fell and nobody saw it, would they have seen the squirrel that would take the apple back to his humidor and add it to his collection of fine vintage stuff? Charlie

Oh the apple that fell on Issac Newton's head, had a worm inside and the worm sued Sir Issac for wrongful interuption of his journey! Won 2.5 Million bucks! That would buy a lot of junk including a hydrometer or whatever it is! Charlie

slimboli he called it a hyDrometer.

cjw3: do you see the kind of ire you caused. guys are smoking apples with the cello on. people are getting sued. squirels are hiding apples instead of their nuts. what hath cjw3 wroth.

I buy my apples without cello on them! Should I buy them with cello and give them to the squirrels and other critters. Do they make a maduro apple! Charlie

What in the hell did you all smoke today?

BE the hygrometer, Grasshopper!

Rick, if you're gonna split hairs then you should get your facts straight. True, the Hydrometer measures specific gravity, but what does Aristotle have to do with it?

It's all my fault !!!! But golly gee it's been a good time had by most. BTW - digital or not a good humi stocked with great cigars will automatically keep itself at proper H&T. I just like to have some modern day gizmos to tell me what my cigars tell me when I smoke one.

tailgator: i thought you alone would catch it. correct person Archimedes.

I still want to know cello on or off of Apples! Charlie

on, definitly on.

That's more like it. But isn't a cello a large violin shaped string instrument??