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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rust never sleeps

Hwy

Hwy

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I could not find a decent pipe and an affordable price for my '90 (I know it's not vintage but bear with me) so I decided to build one myself.
I bike is a '90 250 WXE and looked to replace the stock pipe I thought weighed 8 lbs or so - in fact the stock OEM Husky / Cagiva pipe weighed in at a svelte 3 lbs 14 oz.
Anyway, since no one would make me a pipe for anything under $500 with shipping both ways, I proceeded to fabricate my own using the stocker as a template. The diameter is 3mm more at the widest point.
I used a light weight steel and stole the mounting tabs from the OEM pipe. When finished it weighed in at 3 lbs even, almost a pound less!

Since we (vintage guys) are always looking to get rid of rust, I embraced it and put the "gunsite" logo in rust.

The method or rust used was my home brew of Hydrogen Peroxide, vinegar and salt. I dabbed in on through a stencil made from sandblast material.
Next is to seal the rust to stop further acceleration with acetone and oil.
 

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Motosportz;68591 said:
You made a pipe!!! :notworthy:
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Yup, photographed original pipe in 3D modeling software. Wire frame results gives me the x,y and distance coordinates. There is a total of 9 sections at 180 degrees each. Water jet cut. About 8 hr on the English wheel and 2 1/2 hr more with a mallet before welding.

As you can see, I'm not the best of welders:excuseme:
 
Very cool. Would love to see some build photos of that pipe if you took any during the forming process.
 
I suppose CAD is much like animation.
The hard part was figuring out the size of cuts. After the welding was done, a primer was used to keep the parts rust free until I was ready to mount the tabs.
I must have used enough material for three pipes before I got it right!
 
Just....WOW.

This vintage forum is blowing my little mind!

Good to know craftsmanship is alive and well.
 
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