01-03-2009, 11:16 AM
I know what you mean about the cold. I worked with cryogenic refrigeration equipment in the Los Angeles Harbor back in the 1980's, and we had to make sure that any plumbing or fittings we used were either brass or stainless steel. If iron or steel was exposed to liquid nitrogen at -330 degrees f, you could drop the piece and watch it shatter like glass! I spent one winter in Buffalo, N.Y., one winter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and one winter in Syracuse, N.Y. & I decided I had had enough winter for a lifetime! It was past time for this So California boy to get back to the tropics!