tert in seattle wrote:
> Gary wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "Steve Freides" wrote:
>>>> Julie, if it says it's not designed to operate in less than 55
>>>> degrees Farenheit, that's your problem. I know it sounds like a
>>>> freezer ought to be able to function in freezing temperatures but
>>>> perhaps not - the motor, etc., isn't in the cold box.
>>>>
>>>> -S-
>>>
>>> Guess I simply can not operate it in the winter then.
>>
>> Not knowing myself at all but that sounds like total BS to me. A
>> freezer should be connected and controled by an INTERNAL
>> thermometer, not go by outside temperature. I know many people with
>> freezers and fridges in their garage and I've never heard this
>> nonsense.
>
> my (Kenmore) 5 c.f. chest freezer spent its first few years in the
> unheated shop - never had a problem

There certainly were no problems with it the winter before and it was pretty
full too. But maybe we had milder weather? I do think we maybe had one
snow day but I don't recall the freezing weather for weeks on end like we
had this past winter. I say past because it seems like spring today. Not
sure when the official start date is.