keeping glue in your car

[Don]

Hi Carol,

I suggest using very small bottles of your various adhesives. That way they
can travel into the clients house with you and into your home at the end of
the day.

The picnic cooler/warmers can make only about a 40 degree difference from
the external temperature (degrees F.) so in my area they would not fill the
bill for most of the harsh winter. They generally draw about 1 to 2 amps so
starting your car after a 2 hour appointment would not really be much of a
problem.

You might get more "bang" for the buck out of gel pouches that are designed
to be warmed up in a microwave puting them and your glues into a styrofoam
box to slow down the heat loss.

Another option would be to have an interior car warmer and ask the client
if you may plug in your car. If you did the same at home you could leave
the glue in the car year round.

You could also build a small box with a DC rod in it and as the DC people
say for "only pennies a day" *grin*. I believe there smallest bar is an 8
watt unit. It would not be enough where I live. Perhaps they have short
bars with greater wattage? 

At 10:16 PM 11/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestions about keeping a small ice box or cooler in the
>car to store glue.  This will probably work fine if the temperature is no
>lower than 30.
>
> I once saw at the arboretum the way they kept blossoms from freezing.  They
>used a sprinkler to spray a fine mist on the blossoms as the temperature
>dropped below freezing.  Something about the very act of ice making created
>enough heat to protect them - even under all the ice that formed.  Strange
>thing, this property of thermal dynamics.
>
>So I was wondering about anti-freeze.  The same stuff in my car keeps the
>engine from overheating in the summer, and freezing up in the winter.  If I
>were to surround a container containing my glue in a container full of
>anti-freeze, would this prevent the glue from cooking in the summer and
>freezing in the winter?  Would it help to pack the glue bottles in
>styromfoam inside this container?
>
>So just how stupid is this idea?
>
>Carol Beigel
>
>
>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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