keeping glue in your car

[Jon Rhee]

The anti-freeze would not protect another material or liquid from freezing.
Antifreeze itself freezes at a lower temperature than water and boils at a
higher temperature than water but does not insulate per say.  Your glue
would reach the freezing point just the same...

Jonathan Rhee
Weymouth, MA 

> From: "Carol R. Beigel" <crbrpt@bellatlantic.net>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:16:19 -0500
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: keeping glue in your car
> 
> 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
>