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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Magnificent 7
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dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
This is about worn me out. I've hand dug that tractor out bout 5 times now! Yeah! You going to get hit again!
Been plowing since 5 am and broke my 3 point hitch blade. So in shop welding all new pieces in.
Damn snow drifts 6 feet high! Darn ice under all the snow and can't get any traction.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
u b careful with that row crop front end u have bikes to finish and brake peddles to make no squished CH'ers, what did you hit with that blade?
Oh yeah! Real careful cause that's how my grand pa died. He was on a farmall and it flipped over on its side.
Don't think I hit anything, but this snow is real heavy and so deep. So could be old age like the operator! Sometimes they get old and just break! Ha!
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Me Too! That thing gonna be one sharp missle.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I have no words for what's happening in your shop, Darin. So...
Where the heck you been? You got bikes that need done!
What you ever do with the older one you was working on?
Rossik
Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey we got hit with a UK version of a 'blizzard' overnight, I should be able to dig us out with my swiss army spoon though so probably a bit lighter than yours
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Coming back done in chrome. Wanted nickel but plater said chrome so it holds up good.
Plus had lower shock eyes done. Get that thing on, then can get air box flap done brake arm fitted good etc....
Will give me a chance to get shocks on too actually see color scheme overall.
Xcuvator
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I've been keeping up with your projects/postings and haven't replied much because you make me feel guilty for not spending enough energy on mine.
Well done Darin!
As a side note,
your parts are nickel plated most likely but the chrome was put on top (wisely) much like the way you put hard clear coat on top of your enamel to protect it.
The quality of chrome plating is determined by the amount of nickle. Nickle makes the luster and chrome protects the softer nickle.
You could softly brush the chrome to look like nickel.
Keep up the good work!
I'm a fan
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I've been keeping up with your projects/postings and haven't replied much because you make me feel guilty for not spending enough energy on mine.
Well done Darin!
As a side note,
your parts are nickel plated most likely but the chrome was put on top (wisely) much like the way you put hard clear coat on top of your enamel to protect it.
The quality of chrome plating is determined by the amount of nickle. Nickle makes the luster and chrome protects the softer nickle.
You could softly brush the chrome to look like nickel.
Keep up the good work!
I'm a fan
Ok Steve, good to know cause he kept telling me to stay away from the nickel, cause I would have to keep up with it and like to rust around the welds. See, ya learn something new every day.
Was hoping I would get my graphics proof by now but nothing yet. Guess it takes time since they are being custom made.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
chrome kool hmmm i once read in some jeeper rag that pretty chrome at least was not a good idea because it some how effects the strength of the partIDK but that's what it said
You might be correct, cause I read something like that as well.
I asked that question to plater and he said he has done tons of motorcycle frames and swing arms. But I said this is dirt bike and he said yes, we have done tons of them.
Said ok, let's roll!
Curious to get it mounted, then with shocks, Tm design chain guide, yellow tension wheel with yellow chain slider.
Then last but not least, get rear hub with sprocket on with brake stuff.
Will get pic of it all then have you guys give me feedback.
Not sure of the blue center on the head? But I have some new heat resistant stuff going to try on the pipe, silencer and possibly the head. It comes in titanium, black, blue, yellow, chrome, you name it.
There is a real sharp grey with hint of blue in it ( Called Jesse James Cold War Grey), that is sharp. Pipe and silencer, thinking of doing in titanium. Would be the color of the newer 4 stroke pipes. I want to do the Husky badge on the pipe then in accent color.
