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Having used desiccant in tea bags inside the PolyDryer boxes with some success, I wanted to see what happens with more exposed surface area:

The tray (jawbreaker boxes.py URL) is 2 mm chipboard with a quartet of additional notches fitting the protrusions in the bottom of the Polydryer box:

Although you’ll find plenty of printed trays, many with ingenious perforated lids, this was quick & easy:

They’re painfully prone to dumping their contents, despite the dividers which are intended to dissuade the beads from taking collective action and surging over the slightly higher outer walls. Fortunately, the dump occurs inside a sealed box and is entirely survivable.

Distributing 25 g of silica gel neatly fills the sections:

Now it’s just a matter of time …