Cutting torches in cold weather

Should I be keeping my torches out of the cold when not in use? I went to use my torch today and one of the torch gaskets is leaking. Its the original gaskets on a HF heavy duty torch. I'm going to put in new gaskets this week from the smith dealer. I'm just wanting to try my hand at gas welding and don't want to have to be messing with gaskets constantly or be undoing the hoses and keeping the outfit on the dinner table for no reason.



I'm just curious if it was the HF gaskets. I don't use it enough to justify a better outfit, yet.