I started a thread last week looking for guinea pigs for some cedar humidification devices I am prototyping, and I just wanted to drop a picture here. I am running this in a 100ct humi and it's holding rock steady at 65%, with about 4oz of silica embedded.

I've already gotten plenty of volunteers and have my carpentry work cut out for me for the coming weeks, but if it seems like something you absolutely need, PM me and I am sure we can work something out.

Friends don't let friends drill drunk!


Nice, good luck.

Yeah, that was some freehand dremeling. I plan on making a jig for the versions I send out for testing. Can't have them looking like the carpentry equivalent of a crayola drawing...

Also, the hole in the end allows one to inject water directly into the silica, rather than maybe just soaking the wood through one of those tiny ventilation holes.

Looks like a rat trap

=d>

so that's! what it looks like.

Depends on what you're drilling (drunk)

That's my longest proven prototype. The ones Mikey1597 got were essentially solid cedar toros, which have also proven themselves worthy in my travel humis and ziplocks and whatnot. I also have toros cored out and filled with about 1oz of silica that are holding steady.

This one was was actually just rough hewn and cut with sawzall and a razor blade before I sanded 'er down for a picture. Like I said, I'll be finishing them with more precision for sending out. I need to get some silicon-oxide sheets for my sander. A sheet of garnet lasts like, three seconds on a power sander.

The lowest I have managed to drop my ambient conditions is about 45-50% RH by laying down a layer of fresh silica, and then sealing a humidifier and hygro in another tupperware sealed inside that one.

Nola is too swampy to push any limits. I could pretty much leave my cigars out on my counter and be all good. When the A/C is on, RH ranges from 62-70 unless it is pouring out or the temp has plummeted way below the dewpoint. I am looking forward to getting some feedback from everyone, (though a bunch of us are all in the same belt of neotropical clime), however these work out. Like I said, worst case scenario, it's another chunk of cedar for your cooler. Hell, whittle a doll out of them for your grandchilluns. 🌫

Drillin' beads into 05busa's rat trap is fair game, right?

Honestly, I might have to make him an awesome custom 1500ct humidifier full of fresh mouse corpses.

Gator bait

Don't you know anything? They only bite on mice in swamp cedar caskets, not spanish. Pretty sure it's not racist, it's just a cultural thing.

No tacowood swamp mice

Filled with silica beads, right?
Is there access to mist them if/ when they need a "recharge"?
Is that what the hole is on the left hand side? Or are the beads in a nylon hose and then put in the box?
It is much nicer looking than the dollar store nylon stocking I have filled with beads.
My wife laughs at me when I go to the dollar store to buy nylons...

But hey.....I'm comfortable with my manhood....
😎


Doc

Actually, misting silica just causes it to dust up faster. The rapid uptake of moisture causes hydrofracture. Ideally, you limit the actual surface area exposure to avoid pulverizing it all, so I use a syringe when I rehydrate silica. That hole on the left is basically just a way to inject into the silica while limiting its contact with the wood.

The silica is just loose in the box. I figured nylon or a plastic sheath would just be one more way to cause some festering mold issues.

This was my first bang up in the box form. I have a few more tweaks I will make to the designs, but they'll all basically be different renditions of what amounts to cedar blocks.

^ I gave up misting and or injecting my beads, I sit a shot glass filled with distilled in there along with my beads and it stays right at 65%.
Fillup the shot glass every three weeks.

Meh, works for me....

HA! So true

tongue and groove sliding lid would be the next logical progression as even those galvanized nails will oxidize

Very impressive craftsmanship. You're a serious artist. Love that hue of orange. Good color choice.

(Btw...what's the box on the right?)

Spanish cedar?
The mere mass of the box itself would tend to stabilize a 100-ct huni.

I really want to get into fastenerless carpentry, and I've never really done much with it before. I already ordered some spanish cedar dowel to start playing with that, but I don't think you can get very far into tongue and groove without first purchasing a table router.

Those nails are actually nice brass coated fasteners that were sanded over when I cleaned up the box. This one started super roughshod as proof of concept, and then I smoothed 'er out for a photo. Have you ever seen the hinges and latches on your cigar boxes corrode? I've got old cigar boxes from the '30s holding bits and bobs in my garage, and even their metal pieces haven't oxidized.