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Vladislav

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  1. My walkout basement garage got cold enough not one but two pipes froze and then burst, had about 3 inches of water in the basement before someone noticed, I was in NC so the wood stove wasn't running like it is when im here and its cold out. Apparently the water running out the garage doors froze and created a dam and that's how it got to 3" of water in a 22'x42' space, needless to say ive been drying and cleaning since Friday when I got home. I try to keep my wood stove and a fan down there going to keep it about 40-50 degrees but with me out of town it was kinda hard to do, I am trying to get some wood toegether now for the next couple months and guess what, its been so wet I have almost no dry wood. I guess Ill have to prepare a little earlier next year, I already used up almost the same amount of wood I used all last winter, I wasn't ready for it to get this cold this fast and stay there, we don't normally do that in TN.

    Good luck on drying all that up.

  2. If you have an interest in the history of Mack trucks and the facilities they used to produce them I suggest you pick up a copy of John Montville's "Mack" published in 1973. It is an excellent book that does a great job of covering the formation and operation of Mack.

    I have Montville's "The living legend of the highway" of 1979, brobably a different edition.

    Haven't read it completey though.

  3. I used to observe such an effect in the cold shed, temperature here jumps over the freezing point many times during the winter.

    The last time it was -18 Celsias for a week and than came up to some plus. I saw all the heavy chassis parts i.e. hubs, springs and carriers were covered with ice cristalls wich later converted into little drops of water.

    The way to prevent it is to use inside heating or to insulate a room from coming wet air from outside.

  4. I'm off TV at all since I'm off my wife about 7 years ago.

    About 4 years back I got a TV set at home.

    Although to my great happiness there is no antenna cable or aerial itself in my house.

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