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5th Aug 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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