[AT] 430V Freeze plug

[Stephen Offiler]

I hear "sales gimmick" and I run screaming for shelter.  Best reason yet to
quit saying "freeze plug" and go to "expansion plug".

SO

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 12:43 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I once read that the term was part of a early car maker sales gimmick...
> So far I have found nothing to support that but it sounds like something
> they would do.  :-)
>
>
> .
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 2:33 AM Thomas Martin <tmartin at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> But the condenser came first, then *Capacitor* replaced the term
>> condenser (coined by Alessandro Volta in 1782) to disambiguate it from
>> steam condenser. The coiner is unknown but the change was recommended in
>> 1926 by British Standard Glossary of Terms in Electrical Engineering.
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 03 February 2020 at 15:39 Howard Pletcher <hrpletch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect the freeze plug term originated about the time a Model T first
>> froze up, whether that one protected the block or not and to people not
>> having a clue about how blocks were made, the term seemed to make sense and
>> it has stuck for 100 years.  Not unlike the capacitor in your ignition
>> system that everyone calls a condenser.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 8:57 PM Stephen Offiler < soffiler at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I tend to agree with Thomas that the true purpose of the plugs is related
>> to the cores used in the sand casting process; but I have to wonder - where
>> did the term "freeze plug" come from?  The proper terminology, based on the
>> online parts outfits like Napaonline and Rock Auto, seems to be "expansion
>> plug". That strikes me as pretty close to "freeze".  On the other hand,
>> every cracked block I've ever seen was equipped with plugs, which does not
>> speak highly of their effectiveness to protect from freezing damage.  It
>> strikes me that the term "freeze plug" perpetuates a myth.
>>
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