dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Good Eye! Yes, giving the bike a so called lift kit in the suspension dept.
Oh, I helped your economy out over there via Chippys.
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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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Husqvarna
Good Eye! Yes, giving the bike a so called lift kit in the suspension dept.
Oh, I helped your economy out over there via Chippys.
ajcmbrown
Husqvarna
Pro Class
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Thanx!
The 42 mm forks said 82 490. But got triples off guy in Cali so really wasn’t sure of year.
Plus box of parts. I think the kicker is Square type with bolt all way thru. If you know someone?
Have whole new learning curve now.
I do like the bike!
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Yeah, kick start lever. Plan on staying with front drum but doing left side conversion with longer lever.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
These Maico cast covers are like trying to get gravel out!
Progress! I still have about 1 1/2 hrs left on rest then polish. Soon as I’m done, then the artwork begins on this cover.
It gonna look sharp when done. I have an ignition cover coming that gets polish and artwork.
Progress! I still have about 1 1/2 hrs left on rest then polish. Soon as I’m done, then the artwork begins on this cover.
It gonna look sharp when done. I have an ignition cover coming that gets polish and artwork.
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ajcmbrown
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Maico castings are very roughly finished alright, it looks like you are on the home straight with it though!
I used a KTM kick start lever on my 79 Maico 250MC, same spline, no more broken starter knuckles and folded away nicely, I think it was from a late eighies 250GS from memory.
Tony.
GaryM
Husqvarna
AA Class
Just sharing ideas
Would you consider a Vapor blast on the sand cast cases and side covers. It would trully give a sealed surface and be much less work. Also been using Acid cleaner ? Al has
has exposed carbon molecules along with boron. ( yes I have gone that far as any geek will go ) Now how much black do you still get when sanding , thats the carbon, It will keep coming and coming up.
So what do the anodizers do before applying there metal finish , dip in acid , it almost like a primer that folks do before painted surface ( acid etch surface)
Learned this staying all day in anodizer shop. Doing my tanks before painting and especially on the exposed panel areas. Oh the vapor blasting does the same with pressure with a water sand blasting on AL as the acid only in different manner. Now secret for all, there is nothing like this product, prior to painting it is much less toxic too - Cerakote has the best, best ever solvent in a different verison than you get at paint store its tert-Butyl Acetate Cleaning Solvent. It the best 29 dollars a gallon I have spent. Nothing preps the surface better. Only found it at Cerakote. again sharing idea s to finish prep some of you metal, gosh you have shared so much with us and me It smells less toxic, and has the highest evapration i have seen on solvent. And take a look at Cerakotes new clears for polished metal also I memtion these clears , as artists are using these the protect ther work on plastic, metal, and polished metal. Some of the new clears , dont even new a clear primer. And the thickeness is beyond thin. MUST wear the best masks you almost pass out just smelling these products.
Would you consider a Vapor blast on the sand cast cases and side covers. It would trully give a sealed surface and be much less work. Also been using Acid cleaner ? Al has
has exposed carbon molecules along with boron. ( yes I have gone that far as any geek will go ) Now how much black do you still get when sanding , thats the carbon, It will keep coming and coming up.
So what do the anodizers do before applying there metal finish , dip in acid , it almost like a primer that folks do before painted surface ( acid etch surface)
Learned this staying all day in anodizer shop. Doing my tanks before painting and especially on the exposed panel areas. Oh the vapor blasting does the same with pressure with a water sand blasting on AL as the acid only in different manner. Now secret for all, there is nothing like this product, prior to painting it is much less toxic too - Cerakote has the best, best ever solvent in a different verison than you get at paint store its tert-Butyl Acetate Cleaning Solvent. It the best 29 dollars a gallon I have spent. Nothing preps the surface better. Only found it at Cerakote. again sharing idea s to finish prep some of you metal, gosh you have shared so much with us and me It smells less toxic, and has the highest evapration i have seen on solvent. And take a look at Cerakotes new clears for polished metal also I memtion these clears , as artists are using these the protect ther work on plastic, metal, and polished metal. Some of the new clears , dont even new a clear primer. And the thickeness is beyond thin. MUST wear the best masks you almost pass out just smelling these products.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Gary,
Clutch cover is polished. Then ignition cover, when gets here, will be polished too. I did the newer Ktm trick with the Works, toilet bowl cleaner and scotch bright pad. I did top part as test below carb and turned out beautiful, with no effort. I’m not splitting the cases since rod and everything is in wear limits. Looks like fairly new rod. However, someone stuck a new piston in a worn out 2nd to last bore. Think gonna send cylinder out to power seal, to keep this bore and stick new piston in.
Wait till you see the Maico artwork going on both covers.
Good tips. I use Cerakote sometimes and good products.
I have part of the cylinder head polished as a test already. I have a thought of how I want engine to look but won’t know till get bottom end back in frame.
Lots parts coming.
Clutch cover is polished. Then ignition cover, when gets here, will be polished too. I did the newer Ktm trick with the Works, toilet bowl cleaner and scotch bright pad. I did top part as test below carb and turned out beautiful, with no effort. I’m not splitting the cases since rod and everything is in wear limits. Looks like fairly new rod. However, someone stuck a new piston in a worn out 2nd to last bore. Think gonna send cylinder out to power seal, to keep this bore and stick new piston in.
Wait till you see the Maico artwork going on both covers.
Good tips. I use Cerakote sometimes and good products.
I have part of the cylinder head polished as a test already. I have a thought of how I want engine to look but won’t know till get bottom end back in frame.
Lots parts coming.
ajcmbrown
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Toilet Bowel cleaner sounds very uncomfortable Darrin! And then a scotch brite pad! Your arse would never be the same again!
Tony.
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
ajcmbrown
Husqvarna
Pro Class
dartyppyt
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Good catch!
GaryM
Husqvarna
AA Class
Follow up .
Just for the heck of it, please check out the Cerakote new clears they have. Note only the oven baked stuff works - as a matter of fact only the colors that are baked work
But look at pics and how they cover the polished metals it tricky, its new , still experimenting but always looking for new stuff to preserve out huskies
Please note on Acid boat cleaner i use, Want to clean inside old gumly husky AL tank, pour some in and watch as chemical reaction happens - had in bubbling out the top melting away
the crap and gum. Oh dont drop the steel tank cap in the acid solution - Did want to pick in right out forgot and went back the next day and well it was gone ! it melted away, the rubber gasket was still there
Same thing happens at anodizer the little embeded metal bead tire holders can melt in anodizers tanks and ruin his batch of solution. go to get them out of the rims
Just for the heck of it, please check out the Cerakote new clears they have. Note only the oven baked stuff works - as a matter of fact only the colors that are baked work
But look at pics and how they cover the polished metals it tricky, its new , still experimenting but always looking for new stuff to preserve out huskies
Please note on Acid boat cleaner i use, Want to clean inside old gumly husky AL tank, pour some in and watch as chemical reaction happens - had in bubbling out the top melting away
the crap and gum. Oh dont drop the steel tank cap in the acid solution - Did want to pick in right out forgot and went back the next day and well it was gone ! it melted away, the rubber gasket was still there
Same thing happens at anodizer the little embeded metal bead tire holders can melt in anodizers tanks and ruin his batch of solution. go to get them out of the rims
