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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

DIY Tail Tidy

Nick780

Husqvarna
AA Class
Seen a few on here and thought I'd take a crack at it. It's destructive, but came out well IMO. I installed these integrated tag/blinker lights: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Licence-Numb...d-Indicator-Turn-Signal-Blinker-/171482111461

I was hesitant at first but they worked perfectly; No inline resistors are needed and the flash speed is unaffected. Can't speak to the legality of the signals but they are BY FAR brighter than the stock blinkers and shoot more light than stock. Tag lights provide more illumination as well.

I 'welded' a DVD case to the cut section of the tail. Open air and breathing care is a must, as well as a soldering iron you don't care about. I melted the perimeters together and followed up with a shopping bag as 'solder.' It worked surprisingly well. I didn't take too much caution to clean up the surface before plasti-dipping and that was it. Surprisingly strong bond.

Cleans up well. I figure I'd cut the tail before letting it break on its own. Surprisingly, the entire tail end is connected only to another piece of plastic by two screws...
 

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