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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Plastic restoration

D

Dean Toensing

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi there,
I have a 77' 360 auto with original plastic in great shape except its yellowed. Can the plastic be restored/painted for a quality restoration? Or is it just replaced with new parts.
Thank you,
Dean
 

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Many people use hair bleach activated by the sun to whiten plastic. I've seen many gas tanks done that way.
 
there is a thread here somewhere...other wise you can try sanding it back using progressive grades of paper to 2000# then polish it. not sure if that will remove the yellow from fuel. it usually comes from the inside out.
 
just looked at your photo and realised its the guards so yes, sanding will restore them nicely. if they are really oxidised and powdery, you can scrape that off first using a blade.. then sand 180 400 800 1200 etc. hope it snows where you are, this can take time...
 
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