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				 Re: Shilala Beads 
 
			
			Updating my situation:
 I swapped out the hygrometer from my cooler with the one in the glasstop, and it still read 50%.  So I took out the bottom layer of sticks in the humidor, placed a bowl of water in with the beads, put the top tray back in, and sealed her up.  Over the past 10 days, the humidity has slowly climbed by about 1% per day so she's sitting right now at 70dg/67%.  I may go a tad higher before returning all the cigars to their previous positions.
 
 Not sure what caused the drop.  I resealed this last year, and it had been holding steady for some time.  Could be that my stepson, who spends a lot of time in that room, or one of his friends, have been poking around in the humidor, but I won't ever know that for sure.
 
 Anyway, the problem seems to be fixing itself, so that's the important thing.
 
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