keeping glue in your car

[Clyde Hollinger]

Carol,

I keep my glue and such stuff in a small picnic cooler about the size of a
6-pack.  That insulates the contents from wild swings of temperature both in the
summer and winter, but it may not be enough overnight if your car is parked
outside during extreme cold.

Or, is your vehicle in a garage at night?  I have a thermometer in our
(detached) garage and was able to determine it never got below 45 degrees
Fahrenheit even in the extended cold winter last year.  It is well insulated,
though.  If your situation is like mine, I think you have no worry at all.

If you're like me, there's not much to carry into the house at the end of the
day.  If you really need to take the glue inside for those few weeks when it is
too cold to leave it in the car, keep it in something that's handy to carry (my
cooler has a strap) and just grab it along with the other things.  I can usually
take everything that has to go inside in one trip.

Regards, Clyde

"Carol R. Beigel" 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