Ferrari Mailing List: Car related, but not specifically F-car content

[Martin Stark (MStark]

The recent New England snow provided an opportunity to test the ice 
melting cable that my son and I installed in a shady part of my 
driveway.  The cable is 1300' of 16ga. UF spaced on 2" centers and 
sandwiched between the 2.5" basecoat and the 1.5" topcoat of the 
blacktop.  The  reel of cable I found on eBay was about 2% of the cost 
of commercial, direct burial, ice melting mats. The circuit draws 
approx. 43amps at 240v.  That works out to about 50w. per sq. ft. 

When the test started there was about 2" of refrozen rain soaked snow on 
the driveway's surface and the outside temperature was in the low 
twenties.  It took about 3 hrs. to thaw and evaporate the icy mix to dry 
pavement.  The intended use is to prevent that section of sun starved 
driveway from accumulating ice from roof runoff water and turning into a 
skating ring.  Normal operating conditions will usually be with an 
outside temperature of  30-40F.

Fellippe Galletta wrote:

> There's only so much you can talk about Ferraris...let alone CARS itself.
>
> F1 season is over, and if you remove tech talk, what is there to talk about?
>
> Consider that the f-list is truly a family...cultivated in the late '90s and
> mostly the same today. So just think about what that means...we've all
> talked about a lot of stuff, F related..
>
> And thanks to a young FG who probably asked all that can be asked about
> Ferrari (and car) related stuff until he ran out of things to ask, everyone
> got a chance to air out their opinions too.
>
> Is it something that 7-10 years ago , F list membership meant 50-100 emails
> a day, and now it's what...3-5? There's probably a reason for that.
>
> I'm all up good ferrari content, but its harder to come by. I think good car
> comparison talk would be a good direction.
>
> And for obligatory F-content:
>
> WTF happened to Titanium Cavallino knobs & gates? Jenkins?
>
> FG
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 10:03 AM, Dennis Liu <bigheaddennis [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Really, are we this sad?  Are we going to see lengthy dissertations from
> > surely-duly-accredited-authorities on why such-and-such a caliber is
> > better/worse instead of talking about, oh, I don't know:  Top Gear has a
> > review of the Scuderia v Nissan GT-R, Lewis Hamilton tries to beat the
> > Stig,
> > Schumacher blows off Massa's wedding, and this is what we're reduced to?
> >
> > No wonder why this list is dying.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fellippe Galletta [mailto:fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:55 AM
> > To: Dennis Liu
> > Cc: The FerrariList
> > Subject: [Ferrari] Official Rifle Cartridge of the Ferrari List
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.308_Winchester
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