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Unread 10-27-2010, 06:42 PM
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like I've said before, when we winterize, we switch from beer to burbon.

All seriousness, my old boss when I first started working on boats, told me to think about how cold it would have to get to freeze a bucket of water. He said to keep a 5 gal bucket of water on your porch, kick it each morning, the time you break your toe on it is the time your motor is frozen and busted. The point he was making, it has to get below freezing, and stay there for a while before it will freeze enough to bust a block, smaller items, like fresh water fittings and outlets will freeze quicker, but it still has to get below 32 and stay there for a while. Think about how long it has to stay below freezing for that bucket of water to freeze. If you are woried about it, the light bulb thing will keep you from freezing, make sure to use two bulbs, in case one burns out, and use incandesent, not flouresent or LEds, they wont make any heat( I've seen the results).

BTW, it was 82 and humid here today

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