• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fuel tank question

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Alfie

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello,
Just wondering if anyone knows why Husky made tanks out of Aluminium and steel ? Why didnt they stick to one type of metal or did it just change over the years depending on the fashion at that time ?
Cheers !
 
My guess. Steel is cheaper, easier to make and less dent prone. Alloy lighter but more difficult to make so used on higher performance models.
 
Aluminum is made electrically. Eventually inert gas shielded, many chemical advances. Same with plastic or other synthetic material. They also are making a price point and have varying degrees of competition in the marketplace as time goes on. I assume the fuel tanks were steel from 1903 or whatever date you choose until my guess is somewhere in the 70's
 
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