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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Top Chain Snubber/roller... What For?

beemerphile

Husqvarna
I am wondering the purpose of the roller chain guide on the top side of the chain above the swing arm pivot. Can anyone enlighten me? It doesn't make sense to me to put anything in the tension side of the chain. Also, it is fairly high up. At what time would the chain come in contact with it - full suspension compression? Several have posted the need to gusset the attachment point because it breaks. I can understand that there would be a high force there if it ever did have to deflect the chain under power, but I remain at a loss as to why. ???
 
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