Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Equipment => Topic started by: Hank on March 26, 2008, 09:47:42 PM
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:bash: I bought a Jonsenred chainsaw. It is one of the best saws I have ever owned. The best purchase I ever made was an electric chainsaw sharpener from Lowe's (it only cost me $30). It cut my sharpening time by 80%, and what an edge it puts on a chain.
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I purchased a dremel tool last year to sharpen my husky. It is the best purchase I made aside from the saw itself.
Pete
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I bought one of those sharpeners at Lowes also. Does a nice job. ;D
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Does that Lowes sharpener automatically give you the perfect angle? I have always sharpened by hand. Although the chain is sharper when I'm done than when I started, I am never sure I'm getting the perfect angle to bring my file across at.
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Cal,
good question. I just bought a file and guide and even with it, its hard to tell whether I'm getting the right angle.
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there are marks on top of file guide.if your chain has a flat side it is a full chissel chain file on 25 deg line.if chain has rounded side it is a semi chessil chain file on 30 deg mark
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yeah but that doesn't mean your hand is going to stay steady at that angle (human error). I can keep the lines on the guide parallel to the bar for the right angle but if I move just a hair one way or the other it changes the angle I'm sharpening at.
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practise makes perfec. i put mine in a bench vice
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practise makes perfec. i put mine in a bench vice
Ouch, bet that's ruff on your knuckles
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Pete,
Did you have to purchase a special kit for your dremel tool to sharpen chains? It would be nice to have something that showed sharpening angles like a file guide.