• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

A New Way to Tune Spokes

KXcam22

Husqvarna
AA Class
A torque wrench is nice, but once you get some corrosion inside the nipple it is not very accurate. I typically tune by ear, making a nice musical note. I think most people do this. Here is a modern version. I clamped my "snark" guitar tuner to the spokes. It is a simple $15 tuner that detects vibrations and displays the musical note. By loosening/tightening my spokes I can play any musical note. My spokes are the correct tightness at E. Cam
snark spoke tuner.jpg
 
Not the worst idea I've seen . Given important (drag engine conrod) bolts get done up to a measured stretch as opposed to applying a turning force to the head I rekon it's pretty valid .
 
May be unusual, but if a guy was deaf, tone deaf, or like loud music while tuning spokes, it would work. Cam.
 
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