Cold hangar - frozen products

[Marc_B]

For those that hangar in cold climates without heat, what lubes and cleaning products do you store at home vs hangar. Have a bottle of wash wax all that had some ice in it the other day.  Trying to figure out what I should migrate home with me and what’s fine just to leave for the winter here in Colorado.  Or just bring it all home and take what I need when I need it?  Any horror stories of specific products particularly adverse to winter?

marc. 

[Mark89114]

I had some car wash go bad during last winters freeze where it went to 0 Fahrenheit here in AArkansas.  That was the only product that was ruined.  Other random cleaners and fluids all seemed fine.

[EricJ]

Many products will have storage guidance on the labels, or sometimes there's a PSDS or MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) that has that info.

We have the opposite issue in the desert southwest, where heat can ruin stuff, so I usually check the label.   We get the occasional freeze here, too, but usually not enough to bother things.

Edited December 15, 2021 by EricJ

[Dream to fly]

A simple fix I use in ND is an old Coleman cooler. Keeps everything upright and safe from freezing temps. I had hanger temps last year at 01F a couple of times.

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[tmo]

How does a Coleman cooler keep things safe from freezing temperatures, if ambient temperature falls below freezing for an extended period of time?

[Dream to fly]

How does a Coleman cooler keep things safe from freezing temperatures, if ambient temperature falls below freezing for an extended period of time?

I don't know the science behind it but I have been doing this along with a few other people in the community hanger and non of us have had our waxes, chemicals, paint and even a bottle of water freeze. The hanger has seen zero degree temps and it is not heated. Maybe we are just lucky.

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[Unit74]

On 12/16/2021 at 10:24 AM, tmo said:

How does a Coleman cooler keep things safe from freezing temperatures, if ambient temperature falls below freezing for an extended period of time?

Hangar ferries…. I blame the hangar ferries. They also tend to fix things on the plane as well. 

[Hank]

13 minutes ago, Unit74 said:

Hangar ferries…. I blame the hangar ferries. They also tend to fix things on the plane as well. 

And here I thought them ferries were what moved stuff around when I wasn't looking . . . .