I have been searching for quite a while for the right cabinet humidor so that I could part with my 5 desktop humis. I am glad that I was patient and waited to pull the trigger, as two days ago I came across a very nice, slightly used Aristocrat. It was located in South Florida and I am in northern Florida. I immediately contacted my TRUE BOTL, MandyPI, who visually checked the humidor out for me and provided two enthusiastic thumbs up. Yesterday morning I made the 650 mile round trip down south, made the purchase, loaded it in the Xterra and drove home. Got it home and cleaned it out a bit with a dry cloth. The prior owner indicated that the humidification system, from Habitat Monitor, had not been used for some time. This was apparent by the condition of the wick, just nasty. After changing the wick, which was also supplied, and cleaning about 1/8" of brown gunk from the canister and on the fan, I plugged her in and started the wonderful process of break-in. I conservatively set the humidity to 65% and about 12 hours later, it was there. This humidor is like new and I am so proud to be the NEW owner of a piece of Bob's work. Next job, filling her up!
). When I do a wick change, I wash the cans with hot soapy water, rinse very well with hot water, then wipe 'em down with isopropyal alcohol and blow them dry with canned air. Clean wicks and a fresh bottle of distilled water then go back in and they hang in there really well with that treatment.
