Lots of advice...choose to ignore it all.

Seriously...don't know why you bothered.

I always had issues keeping things steady even with seasoning and trying to check the seal. I had tried just about everything including beads and was hard for me to keep things consistent, especially since I travel a lot so was not always around to check if things were OK.

The large Boveda packs were my answer. One large 69% is good for my desktop humis in the summer with two in the winter when the air in house and office is a lot dryer. Doing this keeps them (according to my nice quality digital gauge) right at 65-66% which is what I like. Longer term storage (where I will not be opening up regularly) is in a tuppadore and, if the sticks are at the right humi to start with, a small Bovida works there. The packs are lasting a long time for me and they recharge several times.

Another thing I do when going to be gone for a while is place the smaller humis in a cabinet that I humidify with a spongy wick device with distilled water.

Drafter was just ordering a sandwich and got confused. I wonder if he held the pickle ?

Open the humidor lid and close it until about 3/4" is left til it's closed. Drop the lid. Does it slam shut? It should drop about halfway and then you'll hear a whoosh of air and it will slowly settle closed. If it slams shut the lid seal is crap.

I've bought two cheap 50 ct humidors on here for coworkers that were supposed to have sureseal lids they do not. The one humidor will not hold humidity, it currently has a brand new sponge soaked with distilled water sitting in a ziploc snack bag and that keeps it at about 63rh.

The lids on both slam shut, the lid on my 50 ct at home swooshes and then settles shut.

Had a similar problem with my main small humidor. Rectified it with cedar spills wedged in the corners between where the panels touch.