• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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.

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noob battery terminal question

shwaz

shwaz

Husqvarna
A Class
hi,

this isn't really a husky specific question, more of a motorcycle battery general question, but it happened to be on my '09 TE310 so i figured i'd post up here.

basically the ring terminal / eye terminal at the battery cracked in half. i need to cut it off, put on a new one and crimp it, probably solder it if i can find my soldering iron. i'm not sure what gauge the wire is or the size of the ring (common sizes seem to be 3/8, 1/2, 5/16 but i feel like those are larger and maybe not suited here?) and whether to go to an automotive store (probably fine?) or order something online.

any help appreciated, a link to something i can order or go pick up would be ideal.
 
Yes, auto parts store will have a crimp on terminal, but if you have access to a good size soldering iron, it would be best to solder it on.
The wire sizes are usually in mm or gauge. I have no idea what gauge you'll have, but if you measure the actual wire inside the plastic (ie -not including the plastic), that is the size you're after. The hole in eye on the terminal is 5mm from memory.
Hope that helps.
 
Flux is your friend when soldering (used to teach it at Jabil in Ayr(HP contractor) .
Slide a piece of shrink wrap over wire at top and slide back from terminal .
Get a flux pen,cut sheath,flux wiring ,insert,crimp.
Get iron hot, touch wiring at end of crimp, slightly Angle it up, it'll run down in with flux quickly, feed solder onto hot tip.
Slide shrink wrap over crimp,heat to shrink and seal.

Job done, no charge. :)
 
thanks to both of you, that's all helpful. i've done some soldering but in much smaller applications (metalsmithing/jewelery) but of course it's the same idea. my iron is smaller though, more an electronics/arts one, but should do the trick just the same.

i ended up ordering some marine quality 10-12 gauge crimp on ring terminals for 1/4" post, was the closest i could fine figuring 5mm post = 3/16, so a 4/16 hole would work ok.

appreciate your time and advice, will let you know how it goes once the parts arrive.
 
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