Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Dry Ice Cleaning Abandoned Ferrari 512BBi after 12 Years Sat Outside - Only 6420 Miles ! - YouTube

[BRITT ROTHMAN (britt2asa]

Hi Francis

He seems like a nice guy with good skills. It would have been fun to meet him 
back when I was in the UK. I gather he lives down near Slough?

Regards
BR in Stockholm 

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> On 27 Apr 2021, at 20:37, francis newman <francis.newman [at] webshot.co.uk> 
> wrote:
> Hi Britt
> 
> I have know Scott (Ratarossa) for abiout 20 years. He’s a good bloke and 
> lives a few miles from me.
> 
> I today visited the bodyshop in Maidenhead where the BB is currently, to 
> inspect progress. The visit was arranged a couple of weeks ago. The ice 
> blasting was only ever intended as a general cleanup of the engine and for 
> that purpose it worked fine. He will have specific parts vapour blasted at a 
> later stage.
> 
> He is currently taking the body to bare metal which will be the feature of 
> the next video.
> 
> Francis
> 
>> On 26 Apr 2021, at 07:54, 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 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>>> 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)
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wkvNWAzNVo
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