New Workshop visit 9 July

[e72phil]

Its been a while since we had a Club Workshop visit on a Saturday morning so the plan is to meet at Kane Hearns new workshop - Zuffenhaus Classics, on Sat 9th July at around 9.30am to witness some dry ice blasting techniques on some cars and engine parts.

Address is: 273 Dundas St Preston which is virtually opposite Paint & Custom and just down the street from AutoArt (another porsche workshop).

Kane has set up a special area within his new workshop with a hoist and the dry ice blasting equipment and will have several cars to work on to demonstrate how the process works. He also has a regular sand blasting cabinet there so members can also see the difference between the processes and the finishes obtained.

Kane has a reasonably large collection of his own cars in the workshop including several G series and a few long hoods as well.

There will be hot coffees plus some Kripsy Kreme doughnuts to nourish members who attend and it should conclude around noon giving plenty of time for demonstrations and discussions about the dry ice blasting process and general Porsche maintenance etc.

If you have followed the thread on Peter Demos's yellow Targa you will have seen the transformation of the cars undersides and hopefully the car might still be there to see it in person.

All members welcome and please indicate if you think you will be there so we have an idea of numbers.

Also if you have your own set of ear muffs, I suggest you bring them along as the ice blasting is extremely noisy.

[damianroyce]

Sounds great. I'm in.

[reedminor]

So finishes around noon Phil?

JR

[Polorot]

Count me in. Thanks Phill

[e72phil]

So finishes around noon Phil?

JR

Justin, yes we expect to finish around noon to let members get away for other family duties.

This should be more than enough time to witness the process and see various items get the treatment including some engine parts.

I hope to also play some videos we have recorded on other cars of the process.

[reedminor]

I expect to be there - but may need to leave earlier than the rest.... other commitments that day.

JR

[e72phil]

Any other takers ?

[Paul W]

I'm in

[Harry]

I should be able to make it Phil.


Cheers,

Harry.

[HughH]

Pencil me in. I would love to see it but not sure of logistics on the day yet

[Mick Case]

I would love to go. Negotiating a leave pass.

[911ex2]

Spotted that building recently with a couple of g series out side, thought it was autoarts overflow facility, at this point I'm in Phil

[MrUpwey]

I'm in. Thanks for organising Phil

[e72phil]

I dropped into Kanes workshop this morning to discuss the Workshop visit again. Kane has a good line-up of cars and items he will be blasting including Fuchs wheels which come up a treat with the dry ice treatment.

There will also be several videos run on a large TV showing various cars being blasted as an introduction to how it works , and also so Kane to talk and not get drowned out by the noise of the blaster once he starts his demo.

Hopefully he still has Peters yellow Targa there on the hoist to show teh results of a thorough underside blasting. There are several other cars including a G series with the entire front trunk area done, plus Kane will show an unblasted G series trunk area then proceed to blast some areas so members can see just how it cleans up these areas of 30+ years of grime etc.

I asked Kane to be able to give some realistic estimates of costs for various items so members know what they might be up for using this process.

This will be a different workshop visit to others we have done before with a real emphasis on this (relatively) new method of cleaning up cars like ours, quickly and with little mess.

He also suggested he might do a part area of a floor inside a G series car where glue and sound deadener have crusted on over the years and is extremely difficult to remove - for anyone who has ever tried.

Certainly a very interesting Saturday morning for members to attend.

[e72phil]

For those maybe hunting for the earlier thread on dry ice blasting, here it is:

http://www.typ901.org/showthread.php?t=6421