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This is a quart can of Zerex, Still full, we would freeze it and put it in our lunch box for out in the field. Around mid 50's. Other item was to measure RPM on any shaft, but we used it to set the speed on a trashing machine or combine cylinder.
The L.S. Starrett Co. Athol,Mass U.S.A. Pat Mar. 28,1905. You would hold it on for one minute or 30 sec. Works CW or CCW. Dial is marked for each turn, and shows 100.
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Mom used to freeze a bottle of milk for me when I was strawberry picking- would be about three quarters thawed by lunch time, and very refreshing.

But freezing anti-freeze? How cold do you have to get it? Ordinary freezer should be at about zero, I wouldn't think that would be cold enough.
 
We would freeze a gallon milk jug of water and put in two paper seed bags and have ice water all day even sitting on the floor board of the tractor. Which is a pretty good thing as hot as it gets here in the summer.
Ron
 
It wouldn't freeze. But it would get cold. It would do the same thing as ice in keeping your lunch cold. Ever have to work on a fuel system in below zero weather and get the fuel on your hands? It is still liquid but it is COLD. I knew a family years ago that made home-made ice cream. They saved the salty brine and froze it in milk jugs. It did not freeze solid, just slushy, then they would re-use it to make more ice cream. They never had to buy ice or salt. And as it was already liquid it worked FAST.
 
Dad had one of those Starrett rpm meters for setting the cyl speed on the AC combine. I have it now, plus another that I got in an auction box. Very simple way to measure rpms.
 
I have a lazer rpm meter just put on the reflector tape point an read.
It will also read the frequency of your TV just in case you need that.
I pointed it at he wife to check her frequency and came up with Zero.
Walt
 
Actually, this is to be expected when one considers that ethylene glycol, the principal component of most antifreezes, freezes at 8 degrees above zero, Fahrenheit. It is only when water is added that the freezing point is depressed. The freezing point of an ethylene glycol and water mixture drops rapidly as the concentration of glycol is increased to a mixture of about 60% antifreeze and 40% water. Around that point, an abrupt turnabout occurs, and as more antifreeze is added, the freezing point rises almost as fast as it had previously dropped.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_would_pure_antifreeze_freeze_in_the_plastic_bottle_beside_the_radiator_and_the_radiator_itself_in_cold_weather_while_there_is_no_leakage#ixzz1tuvDBoAJ
 
Have a modern Starett speed indicator. Used it on sawmills & edgers to make sure rpm's were right
 
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