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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TR650 Tool Tube

Chuffa

Chuffa

Husqvarna
Pro Class
The space left from the GPR single exhaust conversion cries out for a tool tube. Now I'm a bit of a numpty when it comes to manufacturing but I thought I would give it a go.

90mm pvc drain pipe painted black & coated in pvc wrap. I used a simple 50mm U shaped metal bracket fixed to the rear exhaust mounting hole (to get the tube facing slightly outward at the rear). A 100mm drainpipe bracket wraps the 90mm pipe snugly & offers a fixing point to connect to the small bracket. A curtain rod bracket with some thick handgrip foam slides over the exhaust hanger at the front. A couple of pop rivets, a couple of nuts & bolts and it's done.

I took it for a ride on some corrugated gravel roads & it held up fine.

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What's in it?

Question, what are the end caps? Can you show some details? The stuff I can get is bulky as all hell, but then again I am using ABS drain which is fairly heavy.

Probably stuff a tube, patch kit, pump, irons, matches, small amount of hand cleaner, rags to stop rattle.
 
mag00 said:
What's in it?

Question, what are the end caps? Can you show some details?
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The plastic is pretty thin really. One push on end cap.
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A threaded adaptor...
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Then the threaded end cap...
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As far as what goes inside… 1 tyre iron, 2 tyre spoons, 24mm wrench, bag of small tools (wrenches, sockets, allen keys, chain links…), a small spade, tube repair kit, tyre lube, plastic bag & rag. There is also a bit of foam filter stuffed down the base to act as a shock absorber. It all packs in tight so there is no rattle.

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I'm carrying my spare tube in my camelbak or another bag depending if I'm taking a pump or small air compressor.
 
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