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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Still use files and a little jig and extremely happy with what they do. Last time I took a new chain to the shop after a day of fire wooding, it came out with about 2/3 rds of each tooth gone. Kid must not do a set up at all. Chain would have probably been gone if I'd taken it in a second time. That's the event that sent me back to my files.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Yup, and they'll hand you that totally wasted chain without looking at the height of the rakers. I've seen "shop sharpened" chains that would just generate fine sawdust,....nothing resembling a proper chip.
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Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
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I had some of the diamond stones for a Dremel but, they got misplaced in the shop and the local Lowes didn't stock them any more. They worked and lasted well. I used 'em in a cordless drill. I tried the Oregon carborundum stones and went through three before I finished sharpening a 16in chain. They're just junk. Pull a properly sized file from the handle and put it back in loosely, so it can rotate. Chuck the other end of the file in a cordless drill. Go to work controlling the long end with the file handle. Sharpening goes pretty quick. Works well for me.
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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Yup, and they'll hand you that totally wasted chain without looking at the height of the rakers. I've seen "shop sharpened" chains that would just generate fine sawdust,....nothing resembling a proper chip.
GTC Yup, once you file about half of the tooth down, you need to top off the rakers/drags, and then keep an eye on them each time. The teeth are on a slant, the height gets less and less.
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