What happened to the guy with the Heartfelt Beads? His website says he's moving but its been like this a while. Have used those since forever and wanted to pick up a few pounds or so for another cooler I'm setting up. Any other identical product out there I'm not aware of?

Haven’t ordered from HF in a while but the last time I checked, I thought the prices had gone up. Not sure if it was significant or not but when I went back to the site, I did kinda rear back and go, “Whoa!” when I saw the prices. But probably ‘cause it’d been at least 5 years since my last order. I’m slowly switching to Boveda packs instead since maintenance, if done correctly, is a breeze. Every once in awhile, a rather well-known place will run a special on the big 320 gram packs. I bought a 6-pack last year and placed one in each of my coolers. Haven’t had to recharge them yet, whereas my beads need some looking at / refreshing every couple of months.

There's a similar product on Amazon that works well for me. Rh Shield I think it's called.

He caught the VID FROM ...HOCKEYDAD...
A.K.A
"THE HARBINGER" OF THE VID

HCM beads.

I know of a source where you can get kitty litter beads at $4.94 for a 8 lb bag. PM me for the source.

These appear to be identical to the heartfelt beads, plus they have the large empty tubes. Just ordered some. What I usually do is put about a pound of beads in a long mesh bag in center of cooler and rarely if ever wet it, and if I do, very little. Then I use two of the larger tubes of beads and thoroughly wet those, which are then laid on top of the large bag. This has been working great for me for many years. Boveda's are good although they're a consumable...beads are a time-time buy.

There is a method to recharge bovedas as Palama alluded to. I use a combination of the two in my humidors and straight bovedas in my cooler/tupperdors

As noted by numerous botl here and other places.......
The combination of Bovedas and beads is pretty hard to beat.
Stable, very low maintenance, both rechargeable.
Going on 6 years with the same beads and Bovedas.......and all I ever have to do is recharge 5 or 6 Big Bovedas......per year.
I have one big cooler and two desktops.

I do use the Boveda packs as well. Usually stick two of the small 65% 8 gram packets into my boxes of expensive stuff that are within the coolers. The last thing we all need are $300+ boxes not getting the best of care.

Looks like some other two way beads in 8oz bags on the jungle, gonna grab a couple and see how they do (only 70% though). But I had to pull about the same amount of HF beads a year ago that went bad. At that point I started augmenting with floral beads (one way). Should work fine.

epicurean lettuce is out of favor lately
Trying to setup a blackfriday cooler procurement
Final answer on which jungle bead?

Won’t be here until Tuesday, appear to be the same thing?

I’ll repost for sure

I know TW likes to shove beads up his rectum.
Not sure how that helps his smokes though.
You’ll have to ask him…

It’s the ONLY way he smokes.

To each their own. Embrace diversity, I say.
Just make sure you’re wearing an impermeable latex membrane…

If you’re not a “Party naked and take chances” kinda guy you’re not going to get your camping request pushed through the wait que. that’s quitter talk.

Ok so the two 8oz bags of 70% beads I ordered arrived today. They look in both color and texture to be identical to HF beads there is a LOT of size variation. Perhaps HF uses a flat sieve to achieve uniform sizing or maybe these cheapos just have little QC.

I’ll get these installed Friday or Saturday and update, lost my dad and my last grandpa in September and now my last grandmother is knocking on the door.

Call a family member you haven’t talked to in a while and say hi.

Bead review took a helluva turn. Sorry to hear, Z

Not surprised on this one at least, her health has been declining for a few years. Had emergency surgery 2 weeks ago for a twisted gut, came home hospice.