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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

MH restoration - metal plating questions

Rosco400

Rosco400

Husqvarna
AA Class
Trying to restore my '70 400 Cross but I don't have much knowledge about metal plating.

Most of the nuts n' bolts will get a zinc & clear chromate coating, but what do I do with things like the seat base, rear sprocket, brake pull rod, and other items that would not look correct with a bright shiny mirror - type coating?

Are there any members out there that are very knowledgeable about what processes Husky used
back in the late 60's / early 70's ?

Thanks
 
Clear or straight zinc is what you want. It is only shinny if you polish it. Probably paint seat base semi-gloss black.
 
The seat base on this bike is in really good condition and seems to have been plated at the factory.
It may have been galvanized or electroplated, but I am not knowledgeable enough to know the difference.
Anybody out there know for sure? Would it be zinc, tin, cadmium etc. ?
 
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