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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
SM630 white plastics
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Good luck, with the portions of the bike i did on the picture above I used two cans. I wanted to put it on pretty thick, maybe three layers on each piece.
RDTCU
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Did you use any kind of primer or just wipe it down with alcohol?
I know plasti-dip has their own type of primer, but it only comes in liquid form.
Also, how well does it match the finish on the tank shrouds? I've got the black-red scheme on my SMS and would probably leave the red decals alone, at least until they start fading...
No primer, all I did was take off all the parts I wanted to spray and cleaned them with a generic all purpose cleaner in my sink, let them dry and spray away. Very simple the only thing that takes any time is waiting for the stuff to dry in between coats.
The cool thing about this stuff is when you're sick of it and want to take it off, it peels off fairly easy and mostly in one piece and does not damage your plastics. In fact your actually protecting it by spraying it having a protective coating on it another perk for when it comes time to sell your bike to get a new one.
RDTCU
Husqvarna
Pro Class
No primer, all I did was take off all the parts I wanted to spray and cleaned them with a generic all purpose cleaner in my sink, let them dry and spray away. Very simple the only thing that takes any time is waiting for the stuff to dry in between coats.
The cool thing about this stuff is when you're sick of it and want to take it off, it peels off fairly easy and mostly in one piece and does not damage your plastics. In fact your actually protecting it by spraying it having a protective coating on it another perk for when it comes time to sell your bike to get a new one.
Hmmmm, could I just spray right over the decals without showing the decal lines, and then leave them behind after peeling it off? That would be about the best thing ever...
Like a spray-on body wrap...
I did spray over the decal on the front fender, if your close you can still see the outline of the decal under the plasti dip but it didn't really bother me. I'm still not sure what will happen when I peel off the plasti dip covering the decal worst case is I mess up the decal but I'm thinking if the plasti dip stays as one piece while its being taken off and I go slow over the decal it will hopefully not rip the decal or stick to it. Hope that makes sense. Guess I could have just said I don't know....
