• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Husqvarna wheel lacing instructions

Watto please tell us about your re anodizing of the Nordisc. My experience is that they will spilt open at the weld if left unlaced for a nanosecond....well after a few days at least. How did you tackle it and what did the colour come out like? I am after all your secrets!
 
Most of you do not seem to know that there is only a 50% seam weld in the manufacture of these rim. The rim is in no way impaired when the unwelded ends of the seam separate from a heating process or from a perfectly timed and place hit to the ends of the seam from riding.
 
Yes, exactly that happened to my front wheel...I pulled the wheel apart....then a couple of days later noticed the seam had come apart... anyway..... made the bracket in the pic... bolts together 4 spoke holes.. "v" out the inside of the rim and weld...do not weld the face of the rim.... as fas as the re-anodising.. well.. as our French friend suggested in his "Black is beautiful".. I sand blasted the rim..then cleaned it up with a small plastic wheel brush that fits in a hand held drill... the polished on a bench grinder with a rag mop wheel and bar of paste polish..got reasonably happy with the shine..off to the anodiser....he wasn't really thrilled about doing the job... oh.."if it is 7000 series alloy wil come out blotchy.....blah..blah....took two weks to get it done..he had to remove the rest of the old anodising in a acid bath as the sand blasting did not remove it all... in the end .. I was pleasantly suprised with the colour match.. I had a sample 84/85 rim for him to get a colour match... cost me $100 per rim...which is pretty expensive...but... they don't look half bad now...
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You could contact them.. money talks I guess.. guys name is Brian.. Camera Dynamics in Landsdale , Western Australia.. (08) 9302 1316..don't forget the time diff..;)
 
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