sounds mysterious to me, what was the consition of the break? Was wood broke or where there failures at the glue joints? If the failure was at the glue joints what kind of glue was used. I have not had this kind of failure in the cold but have had plastic parts break. On New Years Eve 2001 had my G/S Stinger broke a linkage (plastic) to the tailwheel on landing($1.35), loss of tailwheel steering caused the plane to fishtial (crosswind conditions) and eventually slide sideways tearing the foam off of one of the wheels ($12.50), the now wheel-less hub dug into the runway causing the plane to start to nose over breaking the carbon fiber prop ($75.00), the prop striking the frozen runway throws the tail back down to the ground breaking the Klett tailwheel ($45.00). All this to get in the last flight of the year.