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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Beefier Rear Rack Replacement Options...

Changed the design to a one piece main hoop (more strength). Got these two bent and the mounts cut out, deburred, and bevelled. Maybe tomorrow I can notch these out and start welding the mounts on.

I'm going to town Thursday to get a band saw I bought, some lumber and steel stock. Hopefully by next week I can have a few of these made. I'm keeping one for myself to torture test, and the others will be sent out to people who want to test them. I'm thinking $130 for the test models, including hardware (may be more if I have to ship it to a crazy location). Once these have been run through the ropes and beaten on, I will make some more if nothing has to be changed on the design and they will be closer to $200. I will guarantee the welds and material, but not the mounting hardware. I ordered a bunch of hardened bolts that should be stronger than the stock mounting bolts, but once again, I cannot guarantee they will hold up to the abuse.

I'm looking for 1-2 more people to test these for me, let me know if you are interested.

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