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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Your favorite cable lubes.

bower100

bower100

Husqvarna
AA Class
WD40 seems to work as well as any fancy "cable specific" spray, ( actually better in some cases).
How about just a light oil? Or a dry lube like graphite?

Dave
 
Really. I remember when Bel-Ray was extreamly popular with a broad product line. Times do change. I still have a case of Bel-Ray MC-1+ and 1/2 case of their blue air filter oil.

Anybody remember the cable lube Dri-Slide? Graphite in an evaporating solvent?

Dave
 
bower100;20321 said:
Really. I remember when Bel-Ray was extreamly popular with a broad product line. Times do change. I still have a case of Bel-Ray MC-1+ and 1/2 case of their blue air filter oil.

Anybody remember the cable lube Dri-Slide? Graphite in an evaporating solvent?

Dave
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I probably still have some somewhere in the garage.
 
+1 for the BelRay 6 in 1 lube. I've always had good luck with it. My shop continues to carry it. I also use their filter oil and waterproof grease.
 
Fellow husky dude Brain gave me some of this to try one day, his wife works there. I usually could care less about lubes, i just grab one and use it but this stuff I love. Almost no smell (great for use in the house as well) lubes AWESOME, stays put. Great stuff. Non-toxic, non-flammable, Biodegradable.

It is the best stuff i have ever used.

http://www.lubegard.com/automotive/allpurp.html

K
 
Here is a little trick that I do. Find a very little funnel, Craft/Gardening store etc.... Take your cable off and suspend it (Kids love to hold these in the air for you for hours). Take the funnel and trim the end to barely slide over end. Take black electrical tape (About ten times) and seal the funnel to the end of cable. Use a little WD40 to fill funnel and start working cable up and down. Watch all the black ooze come out. Keep doing it till clean WD40 comes out. Let cable sit for a while till it stops dripping. Then take what ever lube (Cable life or something like that) and fill the funnel (Work cable) till the lube comes out of bottom of cable (Should be clean/clear). You can also cut a corner off of a zip lock bag to make a funnel. So the next time your with SO in a craft/gardening store sitting on the bench. You can have some fun and say hey, " look at this neat little funnel I found"! Don't say it's for the bike, though!
 
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