Magna Latch Frozen

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Wolfepack88

Wolfepack88

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Anyone else experience your magna latch freezing in the winter? Key mechanism works fine but the top pull latch will not budge. Come on, can't we make a mechanism that is freeze resistant? I found an old thread on how to manually get it to release by taking the safety cover off but its 12 degrees out and I needed to get into the backyard. PITA. This reminds me of the escalator at the PATH Station at Exchange Place in Jersey City. Every other week one side or the other was torn apart. Didn't we perfect that technology 100 years ago. Ok rant done.
 
You have a heat gun to blow on the latch for a while?
 
Nope that's a tool I don't have. Found the emergency release so will try that when it warms up a little. It is bone chilling cold as you know today.
 
I wouldn’t know. I am in Hawaii, sunny and 80s today.
 
Hey Wolfe !!! What about a hair dryer ? It'd be a bit slower than a heat gun but do the same.

You could take turns with the latch. One for you *wooooooooooooosh* one for me *woooooooooooooosh*
 
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Mine has been doing this recently. Luckily i don’t really need on the pool deck for anything during frigid temps so i just plan according to the weather incase i may need to move my cover pump around. If emergency strikes & i need access I am prepared to climb over. I thought about squirting some kroil oil in there the next warm day to see if that helps. I can only assume water got in the mechanism & froze. Maybe lubrication will help prevent that. I’ve never had an issue in past winters. They have a lifetime warranty if this continues to be a problem.
 
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Mdragger88 said:
Mine has been doing this recently. Luckily i don’t really need on the pool deck for anything during frigid temps so i just plan according to the weather incase i may need to move my cover pump around. If emergency strikes & i need access I am prepared to climb over. I thought about squirting some kroil oil in there the next warm day to see if that helps. I can only assume water got in the mechanism & froze. Maybe lubrication will help prevent that. I’ve never had an issue in past winters. They have a lifetime warranty if this continues to be a problem.
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The asked for some pics so I took pics and shot a quick video and sent to them. Amazing that the key mechanism turned no problems but the pull mechanism, nada. Curious what they will recommend (heat it or just wait until spring thaw!
 
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Wolfepack88 said:
The asked for some pics so I took pics and shot a quick video and sent to them. Amazing that the key mechanism turned no problems but the pull mechanism, nada. Curious what they will recommend (heat it or just wait until spring thaw!
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they just send u another one.
 
revitup said:
Although it is often used incorrectly as a lubricant, this sounds like the very purpose WD-40 was designed for.
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Kind of a tangent, but relevant to the WD-40 suggestion...

When I was in college, in the fluid power lab, we had a bunch of pneumatic test boards, that had a bunch of different switches, actuators, motors, etc, so you could build simulations and see how your circuit would function. They had been donated by some company, I can't remember who now, probably like an Eaton or someone like that. Anyhow, they were about 10 years old or so when I was there. The semester I was in that class, we could not use them because they were all being 100% dismantled and cleaned because over the years, the only thing people had used to lubricate them was WD-40. The actuators and pneumatic motors quit functioning because the WD-40 had turned into a glue.

It was at that point that I stopped using WD-40 as a lubricant. The only thing I think I have used it for since then is to remove tar from my vehicles, when I can't avoid a patch of road construction.

--Jeff
 
Turbo1Ton said:
Kind of a tangent, but relevant to the WD-40 suggestion...

When I was in college, in the fluid power lab, we had a bunch of pneumatic test boards, that had a bunch of different switches, actuators, motors, etc, so you could build simulations and see how your circuit would function. They had been donated by some company, I can't remember who now, probably like an Eaton or someone like that. Anyhow, they were about 10 years old or so when I was there. The semester I was in that class, we could not use them because they were all being 100% dismantled and cleaned because over the years, the only thing people had used to lubricate them was WD-40. The actuators and pneumatic motors quit functioning because the WD-40 had turned into a glue.

It was at that point that I stopped using WD-40 as a lubricant. The only thing I think I have used it for since then is to remove tar from my vehicles, when I can't avoid a patch of road construction.

--Jeff
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Yes I think WD-40 was created to protect metal from moisture, I think WD stands for water displacement.
 
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