# (Old) Buddying With Allies in the MMP

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Tags:** mmp
**Created:** [February 10, 2025, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118 "2025-02-10T08:14:52Z")
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### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-buddying-with-allies-in-the-mmp/1014118/377 "2025-02-17T03:10:37Z")

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> [@JaneDoe42](#):
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> We use hand sanitizer or canned air on frozen locks, would those not work when it is your kind of cold? Don’t need to know fast - or ever, LOL!

I’ve never heard of either being used. Probably not enough heat generated.

But, O Frabjous Day, when I went out back the latch was working again! I have no idea what the problem was, or how it fixed itself. (Wasn’t the heat, as it was about -26 when I tried it again.) May have been the ground shifting from the cold.

And I was able to pull the two broken Ground pins out of the outlet by my car, so I can plug in the block heater again! Double Frabjous!

Temp is down to -33C. Projected low is -40 tonight. (I’m not staying up to monitor it.). Put the back bathroom tap on “drip” mode and hope that prevents freeze-up.

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