• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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

What, no bikes in the back!:cool: Looks like dartyppyt has a couple.:lol: Will the marine stuff really work under powder coat and not bubble?

If you are going to powder coat, use high temp lab metal as a filler. You can also use Evercoat product called metal 2 metal. JB Marine is good to about 550 degrees. I think powder coat temps can get up to 500 degrees.
Check with your powdercoat guy cause sometimes they can use more powder and fill stuff. He will know if he sees what you need filled. He would know his temps and if he can powder coat over JB Marine Weld.

My preferred high temp filler is High Temp Lab Metal.
 

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Here is braking plate areas I filled, sanded then dusted with my bead blaster.
I use Advance auto Parts/Brake cleaner to rinse off before painting and baking. It has the right chemicals in it.
Paint work should come out like original.
 

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Well I got all my rubber, rim locks, wheel bearings, and Gun Kote. Lil skeptical on the color of the Golden Nickel, but whom knows till I paint a sample part with it. Now, I'm hoping that my spokes show up tomorrow.
If not, I got plenty of painting this weekend. I'm supposed to get more Husqvarna stencils and logos tomorrow as well.
 
Well I got all my rubber, rim locks, wheel bearings, and Gun Kote. Lil skeptical on the color of the Golden Nickel, but whom knows till I paint a sample part with it. Now, I'm hoping that my spokes show up tomorrow.
If not, I got plenty of painting this weekend. I'm supposed to get more Husqvarna stencils and logos tomorrow as well.
the rims with logos polished into them look like something from a fantasy husky products catalog...totally ridiculous. im sure the pics really dont do them justice.
 
the rims with logos polished into them look like something from a fantasy husky products catalog...totally ridiculous. im sure the pics really dont do them justice.

Thanx! I kinda slid one against the tire last night and think they will look good and tire gonna soften them a lil. Can't wait to see them surrounded with polished spokes, tires on, hubs/brake plates painted, then on the bike.
Think my son now wants me to do his modern Husky rims. I have a plan for the Maico now that should look cool. Thanx to Charlie, I will be having an aluminum swingarm for the Maico. Itching to get that all polished up and some paint artwork on it.
 
Christmas present for good friend of mine!

Figured since I was doing artwork today!

Oh! Dishwasher safe!
 

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Front rim done with brake plate and notice the brake stay arm....

Rear rim on!
 

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So, the time has come for me to close shop and relax!

Not bad looking old girl!
 

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