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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rim Coating

D

Don Bailey

Husqvarna
C Class
I am restoring a 1979 WR390 & 1980 WR390 back to original condition, both sets of rims are in reasonable condition but the gold is patchy and has faded....will need recoating. The rims appear to be powdercoated, what coating is the correct for period? anyone out can shed some light on this please?
 
Anodizing is best. Final shade of gold can be much different per shop you choose or how much prep. Remove all the paint first, chemical or soda blast. Now i still sand it out. but first i prep by taking to anodizer and have he dip the rim in acid. I take it home and now I finish it by polishing out a bit, or create a smooth brush light Al finish, with a white 3m scratch pad. It about 1000 grit, it done with water. Now I tale it back in to be anodized. Here is a bike I built thats now in Florida. It had a scratch pad finish. Not really polished And here are others , all seem to come out a bit different. Hope that helps. 56623219_3187999314559593_8919677261586628608_O.jpegIMG_1677.jpg
 
1979 and 1980 rims were painted. Not powder coated or anodized. If you are going for total original then paint. if you are going to ride it then I like anodizing best.

Marty
 
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