I live between the pig pen and the creek.

Was up your way today hammering away next to the priory,twas f'in freezing that's for sure.

sven360 wrote:I live between the pig pen and the creek.

Was up your way today hammering away next to the priory,twas f'in freezing that's for sure.

Hasnt been that bad on the coast mind. far more grim inland judging by the trudge to work each day.
Windy though.

Surf was a bit xtreme (to the maxx).
Wind chill must have been a bugger im you were set to swing tools all day.

My old mother swims in a lake every day, of course these weather's mean that she need to cut opening to ice before she can swim, but that does not stop her every day ritual

3 bricks sounds quite bad insulation indeed, I'm consuming 12 cubic meters of firewood in a year, that is 18 000kWh and that is heating only, hot water is 600kWh top of that + there is also around 2000kWh of electricity for heating and those are not the worst numbers at all, even with better fireplace I could cut heating to half, I don't know if house without insulation in there consumes more or less?

Firewood costs in this area 20 euros / cubic meter, so it is not very expensive, electricity is much more expensive to be used for heating.

Everywhere we are told to save energy consumption, but often our leaders seem to forget the weather outside when they pull up graphs how much more we use energy compared to rest of europe, there are countries where negative temps are missing from thermometers

I have a new problem Jani....

Gun oil in *all* my locks now, shed padlock... and it's awesome. Locks no longer even notice. However, new problem is the rubber door seals are frozen to the doors! Any suggestions other than lean on it, which as we all know how strong a 300 door handle is...

Vaseline or a silica based spray.

Definately not WD though.

I had this problem over 2 weeks ago at -8C.

I just break the seal with a good few leans. Failing that, kick it?

Actually, what about linseed oil?

At the creek the 5 day forecast shows a high of 0C,low of -8C.

Factor in some wind chill and it's fair to say it's goin' to be cold.

There's gonna be some healthy old heating bills when they start hitting the mat

Chris_C wrote:I have a new problem Jani....

Gun oil in *all* my locks now, shed padlock... and it's awesome. Locks no longer even notice. However, new problem is the rubber door seals are frozen to the doors! Any suggestions other than lean on it, which as we all know how strong a 300 door handle is...

Breasts come in handy here, silicone is stuff that you need to apply to seals, so you just need couple of breast implants, for door seals

We have these almost every food store, but I don't know how it is there, stuff is used to keep door seals soft, idea is to squeeze stuff into sponge and then lubricate the seals with goo in sponge:




Of course it is more than likely that your door seals are tired and old, so in that case you would need to get new seals, there are companies that make general type of seals, that fit perfectly to 300 as it is general type of seal which it has, putting new seals to my 3 door was under 50 euros.

Here is some cad pics from products, that shop sells all tools, chemicals, and parts for industry, they don't sell poor quality stuff so for common man prices might be bit of shock, however it is easy to get 20% off from prices
http://tuotteet.etra.fi/main.html?nodeU ... 666&path=1

Cheers dude We can get silicon spray's over here, I'll see if we can get silicon goo too.

Chris
Other people asked me for VW Polo same problem sticking seals in freezing weather

Any more info on which silcone spray would be appreciated can it be any silicne based product - would Pledge furniture polish work ?

cheers mickt

We went away at the weekend, left central heating on to come on twice a day for a few hours (but on low). In only 36 hours the house had dropped to only 8 degrees C in one room. Never seen anything like it here before. Log burner on full blast now with loads of coal too. -10 last night and a high of -5 in the day with frost all day long. Heating oil companies are overcharging people in the UK due to the high demand for oil with the cold weather so it's cheaper to burn coal at the moment with as much wood as I can be bothered to cut.

Blow torch for the gate padlock each morning (must find some of this gun oil!) and heater under the transit for half hour. Battery went flat again before it started. I bet the 340 would start straight away. It did the other day when I started it for the first time in over two weeks. Even the battery was fine despite standing through all that cold and snow.

Despite managing to start my ropey starting 6 volt DAF, late morning and having to defrost. (no hot air blower assistance other than what the engine fan manages to put through the heat exchangers), the car refused to start tonight. Was offered assistance with a starter pack (12V, who cares? More oomph! ) and got going, nice and slidey before getting onto the motorway.

Citroen GS is out of action due to a poxy clip (the round wire circlip used to hold the outer CV joint to the driveshaft).

Still RWD Volvo action is only around the corner. If my plane actually departs as planned on Wednesday night.

Chris_C wrote:However, new problem is the rubber door seals are frozen to the doors! Any suggestions other than lean on it, which as we all know how strong a 300 door handle is...

Baby powder worked for me! That talcum powder stuff ... Gets rid of any moisture, which means it can't freeze ...

Loving the slidey stuff, no problems starting the 360, pity it's at the garage ATM for a new windscreen ...

Tom

Its cold.
My door seals are freezing every night. But not the locks!!?
Washer jet system (including the tank) has been frozen for as long as I can remember.

Getting hard to start now.
But still chugging.

Mine takes ages to start, maybe I should change the glow plug after all. Talking 15sec of cranking. Also the head unit won't play CDs until it's warm LOL.