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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Longer battery post screws

tool46n2

tool46n2

Husqvarna
AA Class
The number of connections to my battery is growing and the current screws can no longer accommodate all of them...anyone know where I can get longer screws?

Thanks
 
Get a fuse block. They aren't that cheap ($50-80 or so), but you run one line from the battery to the fuse block and then you have individual screw terminals for every device you wire. Some fuse blocks have a relay that allows for ignition on powering the line. Handy for stuff you want to make sure doesn't drain your battery. A fuse block really cleans up things and makes it easier to work on and diagnose problems. ...Says the guy that doesn't have a fuse block and has a rat's nest on several bikes.

A hardware store should have a bolt that will work. The trick will be getting one that is longer but not too long so that you can't get a tight fit.
 
There's nothing special about the battery screws, just go to a hardware store that carries metric hardware and find a screw of the same thread size, just a few mm longer.

Another far less expensive alternative to a fuse block is a terminal block from Radio Shack. You bus the +12 Volt across server terminals easily.
 
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Runner said:
Another far less expensive alternative to a fuse block is a terminal block from Radio Shack. You bus the +12 Volt across server terminals easily.
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Is there a Monthly Pass available? Or at least a Day Pass? Riding the bus gets expensive otherwise... :D
 
Runner said:
You bus the +12 Volt across server terminals easily.
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Wow, that was amazingly bad typing. I meant to type, "You can bus the +12 Volt side, along with the ground side, if necessary, across several terminals easily." This will allow unimpeded attachment of many accessories. These terminal blocks are available in configurations from two pairs binding posts to at least 12 pair.
Another one rides the bus!:D
 
The bolts are the same width as the one for are box 8 or 10 mm, I think it's 8 mm w/ 1.25 pitch.
 
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