• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Another 3 1/4 Oz gone...well, 2.8+2.2 lb back on...

D

deepcdiver

Husqvarna
AA Class
I was installing the dirtbagz standoffs and husky rack on the 630 today, they weigh in about 5 lbs combined :(

The rack was interfering a bit with the left standoff, pushing it down, and needed an arc dremeled into it. Then I decided the metal between the two mounting holes on each side of the rack were surpuflous, so cut them away. On the kitchen scale, 3 1/4 Oz removed from the rack.

Now, I am wondering if the two "hand grip" arcs of stainless steel tubing are really doing anything, the top plate ties the two pair of legs together quite well. Am tempted to cut the horizontal arms off the rack and lose another half pound or so from the rack... Dunno. Bad idea?

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deepcdiver said:
Now, I am wondering if the two "hand grip" arcs of stainless steel tubing are really doing anything...
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They provide some standoff from the mufflers if you use a drape-over type bag, like a Cortech. Also some extra lateral support for duffels and drybags. Handy to have...
 
ContraHusky said:
They provide some standoff from the mufflers if you use a drape-over type bag, like a Cortech. Also some extra lateral support for duffels and drybags. Handy to have...
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My DirtBags standoffs keep stuff off the muffler. I to not carry much on the top rack, but could replace the aluminum top plate with a wider ABS piece for dry bag or whatever. Just wondering if removing those heavy stainless bars would weaken the rack much. The top plates ties it all together, the bars may eliminate some vibration but not much I think. That

would bring the weight from 2.3 down to 1 1/2 lbs for the rack I think, with what has been trimmed.
 
Ah...yes the DB racks give you standoff. But...extra tiedown points, wider platform for drybags. I dunno...I'd be reluctant to lose something I might want later.
 
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