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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Reusable oil filter

My thoughts on why auto manufactures don't use reusable oil filters. The extra time and material a lube shop, dealer, etc. would need to clean the filters wouldn't be profitable. Same with air filters. Some here may have never cleaned a reusable/ss oil filter, but most have probably cleaned an air filter. It is much faster/less labor intensive (less $) to just toss the old filter(s) and open a box for a new one.

We have 4 Husky 4t's that have ss filters. We change the oil often and all the bikes run strong and trouble free. I am sold on the ss for our bikes as I have the desire and ability to clean and reuse them and have been rewarded with my effort. If I had a ss filter in my truck I would clean it and reuse it. Until then I will have to go the not green imo. approach and take my trucks old filter to the lube shop I take my old oil to.
 
XLEnduroMan said:
My thoughts on why auto manufactures don't use reusable oil filters. The extra time and material a lube shop, dealer, etc. would need to clean the filters wouldn't be profitable. Same with air filters. Some here may have never cleaned a reusable/ss oil filter, but most have probably cleaned an air filter. It is much faster/less labor intensive (less $) to just toss the old filter(s) and open a box for a new one.

We have 4 Husky 4t's that have ss filters. We change the oil often and all the bikes run strong and trouble free. I am sold on the ss for our bikes as I have the desire and ability to clean and reuse them and have been rewarded with my effort. If I had a ss filter in my truck I would clean it and reuse it. Until then I will have to go the not green imo. approach and take my trucks old filter to the lube shop I take my old oil to.
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When I was going to school I worked part time as an aviation mechanics assistant helping to maintain a couple DC-3's and a handful of single engine general aviation aircraft. I've spent quite a bit of time at the parts washer disassembling and cleaning screen filters with Stoddard Solvent. I agree it would be cost prohibitive for the quick lube places to do that.
 
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