Chain sharpening with file in hand drill

I looked for a magnified image of a round file with no success. If you could see how the teeth are, you'd maybe understand the how and why his method is so wrong. I'll keep looking.

 

I think I will stick with the round filing for now. jon1212 gave me one of these and some files so that is what I will continue to use.

 

Perfect. Hard to beat a file-n-joint.

 

In the vid I thought I heard him say that round files are made in a circular spiral pattern. I always thought they were concentric type rings. I guess I could get one of the files and look at it under a high lens to see.

 

Yes, I had my doubts about the method. I did not go looking for it, it showed up in the suggested videos for some reason. I had never seen that before so I thought I would post it to the forum.

 

Spiral cut isn't what I'm trying to convey. What I'm trying to explain is that during a backward draw of the file, you knock down the crisp edge that does the cutting, making the file less efficient. It very quickly destroys that fresh, sharp cutting edge. Try to get in the habit of never drawing the file back across the tooth, always lift it off the chain and only contact it on the push stroke.

 

That is a fantastic tool and great to learn with. Use a red sharpiee to coat the cutter of the tooth then use the give it 2 strokes and make sure it is taking off what is needed. Once you learn the tool well you should get each tooth almost exact. And to measure the tooth length a set of needle nose vice grips works perfect. You can pick it in to the length you want and it will just slide on to the tooth with the point sliding into a groove as soon as the tooth is short enough. If you go to far it is sloppy and has excess space. Just leave it and go to the next. One or two shorter teeth won't hurt.

 

I used micrometers for a long time and stumbled on to the vise grips some how and quickly found that it was faster and easier and more accurate do to you never habe to 're measure and it stints on the tooth better.

 

That is an excellent way.

 

Practice. More practice.

Just actually doing it and not analyzing and considering it all over and over. Keeping the chain out of the ground.

With the amount of wood you actually cut, surprised that you need to sharpen already.

 

Why do you feel like you have to comment on my posts, don't you have anything better to do?

 

I think I understand this...so you are using one half of the jaws to slide into the tooth...kind of a depth guage?

 

I will try and get a vid up or photo. I have a few chains to sharpen this afternoon.

 

I will be the first to admit that I am poor at sharpening chain saws.

I am only passing on the information/advice that others have given to me over the years...actually, decades!

The way I have gotten better at sharpening is through repeated tries and practice.

 

Easy there girl....I heard too much nutella can be bad for you!

Better back off a bit.

 

Never seen this method done before but certainly willing to try on one of my older chains. What should I type in the searching the web for videos?