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Old 5th August 2018 | 13:50
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Eric Janson
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Metals become brittle at extremely cold temperatures so the chance of failure will increase.
Also your seals will harden allowing things like Nitrogen and Hydraulic fluid to escape.

I don't know whether the above is the reason behind this.
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