At 11:52 AM 6/28/2015, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>It's been running in the upper 30s (C) hereabouts for the past few days
>and into the foreseeable future. I would not want my household
>refrigerator to be ammonia-based. Esp. since we do not have
>air-conditioning in our house.

I can't say how it would have worked in that weather, but the
household-type gas fridge that I grew up with at my grandparents'
camp in New Hampshire kept ice cream perfectly well.  To a kid it was
no different from the electric one at home, except quieter.  If the
grownups gave it any special treatment I wasn't aware of it.

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