Date:         Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:24:47 -0400
Reply-To:     SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
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From:         SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM>
Subject:      Re: it will actually freeze
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At 06:59 AM 10/10/03 -0700, you wrote:
>David,
>       Maybe but I do not think it freezes that way.
>More of a soft slush that would melt quickly when the
>engine is started.   Perhaps Mark or someone in the
>cold climate can fill us in when this happens.

It's a soft slush at about -5 C.  It's a cool/weird slush that you can't
really squeeze/shake out of the jug at -10.  It's kind of fun trying to
pour it, shake it, squeeze it from the jug into your car's radiator on a
nasty day, when you're not wearing gloves.  It may not cunduct heat as well
as water, but it can suck the heat outta your hands pretty darn well first
thing in the morning when you buy a frozen jug that's been in an outdoor
cage overnight at the gas station.

I swear to god, one of these days, I'm going to weld up a little basket
that will fit under the hood of my Golf and hold a jug of windshield
squirter juice, so that in the winter, you can fill the squirter from a
bottle that doesn't make your fingers feel like they're going to
shatter.  Bless the vanagon, the fact that it's storage space in atop the
warm engine lid (No un-heated trunk) and the ability to fill the squirter
out of the wind with the doors closed if staying warm is important enough
to do the under the driver's seat contortionist act with the door closed.

Oh how I look forward to the next 5 months.  :(