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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My DIY skidpla

cosworth99

cosworth99

Husqvarna
My aluminium welding skills are pretty weak. So I thought I'd get some more practice on a crappy part that sees abuse rather than something that needs to be pretty.

So cut up some check-plate that was once the fender on my trailer. I don't like check-plate, but it was what I had laying about.

It was hammer time making it fit the unusual engine cradle. It it assymentrical of course. I ran out of acetylene trying to bend it quietly, ended up banging it into shape and forming the wings just fine. Cleaned it up and welded it all together. The flat black paint won't last long I'm sure. This may get powder coated down the road.

The blocks of aluminium have a 22.5mm hole that matches the frame. Split in two, they have a slight bevel on the bottom so once tightened they clamp the frame. With a big footprint on the plate, the will spread any load gently to the frame with worry.
 

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