• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

70 Tank color

dave400

dave400

Husqvarna
A Class
This may have been asked here before but want to ask anyway. I built a '70 Husky 400 to ride and race. I have a Hi-Point aluminum tank that I would like to paint as close to original as possible. Does anyone know of a rattle can color that comes reasonably close.
 
Don't use rattle can! Paint will come off soon as you spill ethanol fuel on it.
Color code is in some of the old husky club news letters.
You can get auto paint/clear down to pints. Just mix and spray.
There are a lot of generic lines out there like Nason etc.... That are cheaper than Dupont, Ditzler, etc.....
I use a lot of these for small jobs: cheap and you buy refill cartridges:
 

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You can also get yourself an HVLP touchup gun from Harbor Freight that does nice work and is commonly under $30.00. That of course is if you have access to a 1hp air compressor or bigger
 
This is the gun I use. I run it at 40 psi so it lays down a nice finish with no orange peel.
Mine is about 10 years old and I used it doing inside door jams and hard to reach areas.
Works great up in the tunnel areas up under tank because your paint cup isn't sitting on top of gun.
Use cheap lacquer thinner from home improvement store to clean after use.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/330647584338?lpid=82
 
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