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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Boo Boo Buttons

Jughead

Jughead

Husqvarna
AA Class
I got the urge to plug the holes on the frame where the swing arm pivots. The opening measures 1.25". Guess what, you can buy a pair of the exact size chassis plugs (Boo Boo Buttons) for less than $3 at your local hardware. A little Krylon and you're set.


 
About to print in black:
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The steering head plug is a tad bit looser than I wanted but they fit! I'm thinking of either putting in an o-ring groove in v2.0 or just use the ones I printed and putting on a thin bead of hot glue or silicone and letting it fully cure to proving a friction fit (and provide a water tight seal much like the oring would).
 
kjackbrown said:
The steering head plug is a tad bit looser than I wanted but they fit! I'm thinking of either putting in an o-ring groove in v2.0 or just use the ones I printed and putting on a thin bead of hot glue or silicone and letting it fully cure to proving a friction fit (and provide a water tight seal much like the oring would).
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I can size the steering one up in makerware to fit, so no worries there. I'll test them out when I get home. If I may make a suggestion, hollow them out and add a couple slits around the base just like the OP's buttons. PLA and ABS should have enough flex so that you can oversize the plug by a mm or 2 and they'll snap in snuggly.

I'll see if I can't throw them in Blender or SketchUp later and do that.
 
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