Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-30
CAR NEGLECT NOW MEANS
COSTLY WINTER DRIVING WOES
: Some Timely Suggestions for Avoiding
Trouble and Repair Expense in Cold
Weather Motoring

bill ensues, 1t gives the owner and
a number of his friends an unfriend-
ly feeling toward that machine, even
although 1t may be all his fault
Therefore the automobile makers
have made great progress in the
past few years in scientifically pro-
tecting their vehicles against owner
abuse and many of them are now
recommending that owners allow
expert garage and service station
people to perform all OF the simple
and inexpensive service that the
modern car requires. The incursion
of thousands OF women into the
motoring world has increased the
feeling that car service can be per-
formed by qualified experts better.
more cheaply, more quickly and with
less effort and untidiness than it can
at home.
Look Out For Freezing
This, however does not relieve the
owner of the entire responsibility of
| fitting his car for winter use. The
first precaution is to make sure that
the water in the cooling system can
not freeze. A neglect of this detail
until after the first sudden cold
snap may result in hundreds Of dol
| lars of expense for electric welding
of the engine where the internal ice
has burst it. This means either that
! the radiator must be emptied out
every night and whenever a long
stop Is made in cold weather or that
some anti-freeze solution must be
put in the radiator. There are sew
| eral of these. Alcohol. the most
popular, has advantages and dis
| advantages which are well-known to
the average motorist. There are
| several new ones however. including
glycerine, whose characteristics are
not so well-known but which have
| much to recommend them for engine
| protection in cold weather.
Glycerine, q by-product Of SOAP
manufacture, has been suspected OF
| a tendency to eat into metal and
rubber hose connections. This is not
| true, according to a lengthy report
| by the L. S. Bureau of Standards
! when the glycerine is of the chem
ically pure neutral type, free from
acids and alkaIis, as prepared for
| radiator use by the larger soap
makers. The fallacy is doubtless
due to the fact that glycerine. will
SSep Out Oh Tiny openings through
| which water could not pass or, if il
| did pass would be evaporated i'm
| mediately by the engine heat and the
| air. Glycerine will not evaporate
| and therein lies one of it's greatest
| values to the motorist. You can fill
your radiator with the proper solu-
| ton of glycerine anti-freeze solution
and water and never give it another
thought throughout the winter ex-
| cept to replenish with pint or sc
of water every few weeks.
The great precaution that must be
taken before glycerine is put In is tc
have the water circulation system
completely frightened up and, II
necessary, new hose connections in
| stalled.
| Several other advantages of glyc-
crime are that it has an extremely
low freezing point, a boiling point
somewhat higher than water SO it viii
not cause engine overheating, it viii
not harm body finish at all and is
free from Objectionable odor. Its
i flow, even in the coolest weather
never becomes sluggish enough to
interfere with the cooling properties
of the solution.
There are several other commercial
anti-freeze mixtures on the market
which have similar advantages but