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Re: Frozen Locks

Post by Sir Henry » Sun Nov 13, 2022 8:03 pm

graywolf wrote:
Sun Nov 13, 2022 7:05 pm
I don't have anything to add, just reminds me of the winters I was in Fairbanks, AK.
It was two degrees colder here than in Fairbanks today.
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Re: Frozen Locks

Post by BrokenolMarine » Sun Nov 13, 2022 10:45 pm

I park the truck in the garage, then it's dry and warmer by about thirty degrees than outside. If the locks were to freeze, which they did a time or two, when we lived in VA on the farm BEFORE we had covered parking. I heated the key and shoved it in the lock. It quickly thawed the frozen lock.
But, we also used dry lube to try and prevent the issue. Heated the key with the wife's hair dryer on HIGH just inside the kitchen door, walked out and shoved it in the lock, let it sit a minute and Boom, done.
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Re: Frozen Locks

Post by Hatchdog » Mon Nov 14, 2022 10:35 am

Back in the day remember our cars had external door handles? They were more exposed to the cold than the current recessed handles and lock of todays cars. In high school I used to have a 1957 Chev pickup that I drove to the local ski resort often. The locks would sometimes freeze while up there so I would use a cigarette lighter to heat the key and then shove it into the lock and work the mechanism until it released.

The old school door handles/locks I’m speaking of look like this.


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