Cold

Post by **TOONGA** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:04 am

well it is official it was cold this morning

how cold?

frozen brumby

frozen liberty

liberty moved to garage to thaw out

now while for some this is a normal morning ritual here in WA it doesn't happen that often (or it didn't) this isn't the first morning we have had ice but it is the coldest so far with the most ice, normally just the windscreen gets iced but this morning both cars looked like giant popsicles

and at 8 am it was 3.5 degrees celcius

TOONGA

Post by **Alex** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:24 am

yeh my car had a frosted windscreen this morning.

The weather lady said this morning it was 2 degrees but with the wind it was -0.4degrees.

then i had to walk down the terrace in the city..fark me my balls were like sultanas!

alex

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:55 pm

SOFT or what ! Man, I normally get this greeting when I knock off work and the ice scraper seems to be in the other car (why not another scraper I hear you ask?) or scraping does stuff all.
I have tried insulating blacket on screen but as you drive it just finds any moisture in air and BAM - IT'S WORSE.

Need to idle quietly in the 'hood or drive with head out window, other window down, into quieter spot to warm up. Very handy are the 15 dollar snowboarding gloves from ALDI - and all I really want to do is get home to bed.

You have now put me off the idea of migrating to Perth for a warm city near an economy, beaches, state pride etc

Hope it does not happen to you again !!

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:01 pm

*chuckles* welcome to winter

We get that here all the time...
Cheers
AP

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:03 pm

Just wait til you can't open your door due to ice freezing it shut! You'd be surprised how much your window will flex before the ice gives way - haven't had one break yet and hope never to have that happen! I guess the bits of window will be frozen together so it'd be an easy clean up!

I've got a few frost photos if you want me to share

Steptoe, you can't call these boys soft - you've got a SNUGGIE remember! That puts you lower than soft in the cold scales

Cheers

Bennie

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:13 pm

yeh its been geting cold here last day or 2.... we got -2 in jandi....but i been using the ice scraper on a regular basis for the last 4 or so weeks now....seems to be colder earlier this year

davo

Suby Roo · Post by **Suby Roo** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:18 pm

Pah it's like that basically year round down here! This time of the year by the time you get the window de-iced it's iced back up again!

Corax · Post by **Corax** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:19 pm

There was no ice where i am dude, though I will be the first to admit it was bloody cold riding to work this morning:o.

Cheers,
Corax.

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:38 pm

sure there is colder places in this vast land...LOL....but i live in perth!! not spose to be so frikkn cold ehre!! ahahaah

davo

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:07 am

Actually had 8 degC to 15 degC today, not far off a nice day in the middle of summer in Halifax UK

Gannon, did you not get my PM? Your kind offer of your preloved (erk) snuggie was declined. Cheers Jonno

1111giles · Post by **1111giles** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:14 am

steptoe wrote:Actually had 8 degC to 15 degC today, not far off a nice day in the middle of summer in Halifax UK

Gannon, did you not get my PM? Your kind offer of your preloved (erk) snuggie was declined. Cheers Jonno

Oi ! Watch it!! ... what you mean 15 deg ??? it was tropical here today mid 20 s. Very nice too, plus sorry to say this but getting gradually warmer - could hit 28 29 this weekend (hopes!)

That there frost is a barstool I can tell you!
Best (and cheapest - Yorkshire man speaking here) way to rid it off ya motor is.......
tepid water NOT BOILING just warm enough to shift the ice away and get the wipers on quick to shift melt away. ( I have to do this all thro winter in the dark)
Lots cheaper than de icer and doesnt smear the screen.
Pour it from a PET bottle or similar then I hurl that back into the garden/yard before screeching away in the car.

Then lots of (getting hotter) air blowing on the screen. Full blast.
Frozen door seals/ locks/windows - very annoying but the tepid water again is the best quick fix.....no use tugging the door and breaking somthing or buggering up a key / lock.

QUESTION..
How do you guys manage with some brumbys with out the choke in the cold?
Its just that I was offered a choke free carby conversion when I bought mine from recarb.

I had sort of imagined that down under you had 365 sunshine / warm weather to enjoy.

Post by **TOONGA** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:53 am

yep its warm and sunny all day and it rains from midnight to about 4 am Elle Mcpherson is a really plain looking girl and we export our acting and singing flops to anywhere but here

ice again this morning this time the wheelie bin was nearly frozen shut

TOONGA

T'subaru · Post by **T'subaru** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:38 am

TOONGA wrote:yep its warm and sunny all day and it rains from midnight to about 4 am Elle Mcpherson is a really plain looking girl and we export our acting and singing flops to anywhere but here

ice again this morning this time the wheelie bin was nearly frozen shut

TOONGA

lol

man, Im a wimp, its averaged about 50 degrees and rained forever, the last couple days have hit just over 80 degrees and I get to work in it all day long and im looking for sunscreen:)....hey, whats a wheelie bin?
Cheers

Post by **TOONGA** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:45 am

a big green bin with wheels so you can fit a weeks worth of rubbish in it then drag it to the curb so a truck can come and empty it

they stink on high

here is a good use of one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5di2cGi4EpA

as for the brumby with out choke the holley left puddles of fuel in the manifold so it didn't need a choke but I do know that if you don't have one then you have to have a good battery
as you will be restarting heaps before you go anywhere
TOONGA

T'subaru · Post by **T'subaru** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:59 am

ahh, we have those here and they are used for recycling...very big thing in the large cities, even where I live.
haha, someone threw away a perfectly good caucasion guy

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:10 am

Made by SULO in some parts , so called a SULO bin. We have gone to once a week garbage collection in street by the 'dustman' UK and QLD term? or "garbo's" in NSW, whereas when we had tin garbo bins had twice weekly. I have one for household (oh yeah, right) waste, one for recycling paper, bottles tins and one for green waster recycle.

Cauacasion guy recycled? Was he missing any vital organs? Hope he only went in the night before decomp got too serious !!

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:15 am

TOONGA - you are not knockng my childhood hero are you? No one else in the world can use a wobble board like Rolf Harris !!

One day, just one day I will prepare self with thermos of hot water that will be tepid by the time I come to need it to defrost. I uselitre jug of tepid water, one of those coloured sponges the size of a slice of bread and a squeegee to remove before refreeze - when I am at home and prepared.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:14 pm

Well, its been no warmer than -4 today

Only problem is there's no moisture in the air so no snow. But you get a good exfoliation on your walk to work in the morning with this gale that's out there now...

Current temp: -4.4 >:D Last night I saw the gauge at -6.5! Still no moisture in the air, but the snow making making machines were going nuts!

Cheers

Bennie

dibs · Post by **dibs** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:39 pm

im never eating sultanas again and i love em to stuff you alex

n i welly been down at the club

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:07 pm

My dad recently reminded me of when I was a little fella we lived in a house that got so COLD - by morning the condensation on the inside of the bedroom windows was frozen so hard you needed to dig fingernails into it to remove it ! House was built before insualtion was heard of in walls or ceiling. 1000m above sea level, snowman country.