On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Peter Rebbechi wrote:
> Amazed at the reports of cold weather.
> We do not get those temperature extremes here. Melbourne maybe, just
> mytbe gets to a temperature below 0 C once a year. The max in summer
> is around 40C, with real temperatures averaging 20 for most of the
> Admittedly, in the outback, temperatures can top 50C, and you have to
> do people get to work? I have followed the thread on heaters, and
> venture to say that if it gets that cold, why not heat the garage, and
> not fiddle about with the other stuff?
I'd find temperature of 50C as hard to stand as -30F, maybe even harder.
I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, before air conditioning was
widespread. The upholstery of my Anglia 105E was not meant to withstand
the 130-140 F reached when the car was closed; it turned brown in a sort
of controlled spontaneous combustion. I borrowed my father's black
Renault Dauphine one day when the temp hit 107F, and when I returned to
it that evening, the tail lamp lenses had distorted and the dome light
lense had distorted and fallen on the seat. -20F is lots easier to live
with. I admit -20F is not top-down weather, but neither is 100+F.
As far as heating garages-- I find it isn't a good idea to keep your daily
driver in a heated garage; the heat really speeds up the oxidation of
steel. If you put your snow and salt covered car in a heated garage, it
practically disappears before your eyes.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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