It is 12F and you feel like working on your car?

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softdown Solar Expert Posts: 3,896 ✭✭✭✭
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What to do? So many things that need to be done but cold steel and thin nitrile gloves don't work so well. Plus I suspect it may harm the hydraulics in the floor jack. May be sunny but I suspect the ground temperature under the vehicle, where the jack is, may still be about 0F. Too cold?
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  • Marc Kurth
    Marc Kurth Solar Expert Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2019 #2
    No thank you. I had my fill of cold weather in Alaska. I do like a good cold snap now and then, but not for more than a few days at a time. We had 24F Wednesday and Thursday morning this week. 18F for a few hours is the lowest that we seen here, but it hit 52F the next day, then 70's a week later.
    Next week will be warm, so we will be taking sunrise coffee cruises and sunset cocktail cruises on the lake. At this point on my life, I will travel to see snow and cold - but I won't live in it.
    One of the truly great things about this country is that we choose where we live! How cool is that?!
    Marc
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    softdown Solar Expert Posts: 3,896 ✭✭✭✭
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    I'm half  ready for spring while winter is about to show up - tomorrow. Though I am already getting negative temperatures lasting until 10ish. 

    Felt like working this morning but it was too cold. Took a nap then my get up and go got up and left. All I had left in me was a dog walk. Still not doing bad for this time of year. 
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