Re: Dry Ice Cleaning Abandoned Ferrari 512BBi after 12 Years Sat Outside - Only 6420 Miles ! - YouTube
From: Rick Moseley (ramoselpacbell.net)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 06:58:06 -0700 (PDT)
Right now the problem in that industry is getting Dry Ice...   most of the guys doing it can't get the materials.

After dumping way too much money (couple new Ferraris worth) into our pool remodel, I started in on the pool house.   Long story about the construction but the bottom line is the only way I could clean up old wooden beams in the pool house ceiling was going to be Dry Ice blasting.   Took me while but when I found a guy in my region who did Dry Ice blasting,... it was early last year.

I knew from engineering work I had done the Dry Ice was a byproduct of oil refining, so when Covid hit and everyone was staying home, the gas/diesel demand went down and the "available" Dry Ice dried up.   The guy couldn't get what he needed to do his job.  What was being made was going to big industrial clients.    The end of the year, things were looking up and people were driving more and more Dry Ice was being made...  Then around October the Gov't put a lock on supplies.   With the Covid vaccine needing to be refrigerated almost all of the Dry Ice is being made now is committed to the transportation of vaccine. 

On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 11:55:02 PM PDT, BRITT ROTHMAN via Ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> wrote:


This guy Ratorossa has become well known in the UK for fixing Ferraris and restoring them in economical manners. If you watch his earliest videos it’s interesting to see the progress he has made since he quit his job in IT and now funds his life with YouTube videos about his cars.

What caught my eye here was the cost of the machine, (15k pounds!) and the finish was not as great as using glass bead in a shot blaster. Yes, glass bead makes a mess but the expense and availability of the ice makes you think this is only a machine for a shop and not for the home whilst I can do home shot blasting to a better finish for a lot less money.

Of course the biggest and maybe only advance of the ice is that you don’t have glass grit everywhere that needs to be completely cleaned out. I wish it was cheaper however. 

BR in Stockholm 

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On 25 Apr 2021, at 03:36, Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca> wrote:


I had never heard of cleaning an engine with dry ice.
Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)
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