LeeBot
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2 years ago
I was recharging a handful of Bovedas in a Ziploc bag with some distilled water by sitting them on the radiator. The extra heat creates extra moisture. They were stiff. I wanted them moist. It works pretty well, but they don’t recharge to “like new.” They get more like 2/3 full. I don’t really care. I think I have 101 of the damn things and have never bought one in my life. Some were bigger, some were just the small little ones. They had softened a little, but it was going to take a while.

Anyway, my cat (“bless her heart”) apparently knocked the whole thing into the floor, and I didn’t notice until the next day, maybe it had been two days. The bovis were completely soaked in a pool of water. They were swollen and engorged. And moist. I put them on a towel for the paper to dry, only took about 15 minutes per side, and bam! Like new status. I couldn’t see any damage to the paper. I think I’m going to try it again with another I found that needs some performance enhancement IF I can get the cat to knock the bowel off again.
frankj1
2 years ago
swollen...engorged...moist

sorry. what was the subject?
Stogie1020
2 years ago
"I never thought it would happen to me, but one day..."
2 years ago
I submerge and soak mine everytime I recharge them. I've recharged some twice and never had a problem. Takes too long for them to absorb humidity. Just don't use more water than u need and dump water out that the packs have been soaked in because the chemical in Boveda dissolves in it so u would be throwing it out.
Jakethesnake86
2 years ago
I’ve got a tupperdor just for recharge purposes I just leave in there for months
I’m the snake
rfenst
2 years ago
Neo rehumidifying them for me. Toss 'em when they are dead. Boveda makes a ginormous humidification packet that is about 4-6 time larger than the typical Bovida. Well worth abot $12-15. I have had one in a 200 count humidor for over a year with out any issues and great RH control.
danmdevries
2 years ago
[gonzo] I've accidentally gotten bovedas wet while recharging. The ones that directly contacted water all leaked at some point.

I learned to do a combo hf beads and bovedas. Saturate the beads, bovedas eventually take up excess.

I lost about 20 cigars a few years ago when a boveda leaked onto them.

Some of my bovedas were 10 years old this year as I'm working on rebuilding my stock. I didn't want to risk it so I bought a new brick of them.
JGRAZ
2 years ago
I just buy new when I need them. Though like above I've just moved to the large 360g pack. Four in my Needone 300+ count and one each in my Tupperdors. all will last well more than a year. Just lowball a few auctions here and you can sometimes even get them under $10.
Palama
2 years ago

I was recharging a handful of Bovedas in a Ziploc bag with some distilled water by sitting them on the radiator. The extra heat creates extra moisture. They were stiff. I wanted them moist. It works pretty well, but they don’t recharge to “like new.” They get more like 2/3 full. I don’t really care. I think I have 101 of the damn things and have never bought one in my life. Some were bigger, some were just the small little ones. They had softened a little, but it was going to take a while.

Anyway, my cat (“bless her heart”) apparently knocked the whole thing into the floor, and I didn’t notice until the next day, maybe it had been two days. The bovis were completely soaked in a pool of water. They were swollen and engorged. And moist. I put them on a towel for the paper to dry, only took about 15 minutes per side, and bam! Like new status. I couldn’t see any damage to the paper. I think I’m going to try it again with another I found that needs some performance enhancement IF I can get the cat to knock the bowel off again.

LeeBot wrote:



Iffin’ you continue to soak the packs in distilled water, the outside material will, eventually, show signs of breaking down. Totally up to you but I wouldn’t do it again. I know ‘cause that’s what happened to mine. Another suggestion is to bite the bullet and buy the 320g packs instead of dealing with the 101 small guys. Like Dan and many others, I use HF beads and Bovedas together and haven’t yet had to recharge the Bovedas. Although I hafta recharge the beads every so often, I’mma used to doing it so no biggie. Of course ymmv.
Jakethesnake86
2 years ago
If someone would just teach me about these beads…. I’m so confused by them
I’m the snake
danmdevries
2 years ago

If someone would just teach me about these beads…. I’m so confused by them

Jakethesnake86 wrote:



Heartfelt beads work on the same principle as Bovedas. It's a salt based media encapsulated in a permeable membrane, but in a small bead shape instead of a paper bag shape.

When saturated they're clear, when dry they're white. You buy your humidity level, I run 65s. When I notice the bovedas shrinking, I fully saturate the beads. The beads recharge the bovedas without risking getting the paper of the boveda wet and hastening their failure.

I have a cigar box filled with a pound using women's nylons stretched glued and stapled over the top in my big humidor with singles/fiver n stuff. Couple bovedas just float around in there too. I have another pound in women's nylons in my box storage humidor so it can be made to fit regardless the tetris going on in there. A few bovedas in there too. In my desktop I have another tube I got from heartfelt it's sectioned off in the bottom and then I keep 2 bovedas mounted on the lid.
delta1
2 years ago

swollen...engorged...moist

sorry. what was the subject?

frankj1 wrote:




right?

and what's this "only took about 15 minutes, and bam" crap?


bombadocious...
Jakethesnake86
2 years ago
Need to buy some of these sacred beads everyone loves….
I’m the snake
KingoftheCove
2 years ago
Um………..getting your Bovedas “wet” when recharging them is a noob move.
As Danm noted, you are compromising the packet, and it will leak, probably at the worst time.
Just sayin…
LeeBot
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2 years ago

swollen...engorged...moist

sorry. what was the subject?

frankj1 wrote:



I could have just said "My p*ssy made my packets wet" but that seems to lose something in translation ...
Jakethesnake86
2 years ago
^ 😂 💀
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