On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 15:13:53 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:
On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 3:18:58 PM UTC-6, wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 14:05:55 -0600, Muggles
wrote:
On 1/7/2017 1:50 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 01/07/2017 06:10 AM, notbob wrote:
On 2017-01-07, Frosty wrote:
I live in northern Michigan. We get almost daily snow and/or ice
from November through March. Never missed a day of work because of
it.
Big whoop.
I live in the CO Rockies @ 8K elev. There's a foot of snow on the
ground, it's
-12F, outside, and we gotta drive 100 miles at 7am.
I got yer "cupcake" swingin'. 
nb
Pussy. We had -19 Wednesday morning, missing the record by 2 degrees. We
also just missed the record for the coldest high temperature for
January. This global warming really sucks. This is supposed to be the
Montana Banana Belt not frigging North Dakota.
Yikes! How often do people have trouble starting their vehicles at those
temps?
When it gets down to -40 things turn over pretty slowly. At -20,
with winter oil and a good battery, generally not a problem starting.
Transmissions and differentials are a bit stiff and sluggish for a few
miles, and the springs and shocks complain, giving you a rough ride
for your troubles, but we get used to it - - -
You don't have engine oil heaters like the electric dipstick heater, the oil pan and battery heaters? Years ago, I serviced Stanley pneumatic doors in grocery stores and many of the operator assemblies had a stick on silicone pad that was an electric heater used to prevent the valves and regulators from freezing up. In real cold weather I sometimes put antifreeze in the air lines the keep the Star Trek doors working. All those doors have been replaced by 90 volt dc gear motor drive units by now so it's not a problem. I'm surprised that vehicles sold up der in Canada Land don't have engine oil and battery heaters as standard equipment, eh? ?(?)?
[8~{} Uncle Ice Monster
A coolant or block heater is more than adequate. Dipstick heaters
were just "emergency" heaters for cars without block heaters, battery
warmers were good too, but with PMGR starters only taking less than
half the current old bendix style starters used, we don't see as many
of them, at least here in the "interlaken" district of central
Ontario. Northern Alberta, and even Ottawa are a bit different.