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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1740243" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>What do most of you use to sharpen a chain. I just use a file clamped to one of those guides, and sharpen it on the saw before I go out cutting firewood a vice on the back of my truck to clamp the bar helps immensely . I have got quite proficient at it and can keep them cutting well right to the end of the chains life. Keeping the rails dressed down so they are even is also important for a straight cut, I have been using a bench grinder for that these days, the foot keeps the bar at rt angles to the stone and I am carefull to only take off enough to get them even, I rotate the bar then. I have also recently bought a gadget that closes the rails so not the slop there. I don't muck around though and will replace a bar once it looks a bit tired and the chain before it is too worn, once it gets back a bit the width of the cut narrows and things tend to hang up a bit. A buy chain in bulk and make up my own, it is not expensive and worth it to have things cutting well again. Bars are not that bad price wise and worth replacing than trying to get more out of a worn one.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1740243, member: 16453"] What do most of you use to sharpen a chain. I just use a file clamped to one of those guides, and sharpen it on the saw before I go out cutting firewood a vice on the back of my truck to clamp the bar helps immensely . I have got quite proficient at it and can keep them cutting well right to the end of the chains life. Keeping the rails dressed down so they are even is also important for a straight cut, I have been using a bench grinder for that these days, the foot keeps the bar at rt angles to the stone and I am carefull to only take off enough to get them even, I rotate the bar then. I have also recently bought a gadget that closes the rails so not the slop there. I don't muck around though and will replace a bar once it looks a bit tired and the chain before it is too worn, once it gets back a bit the width of the cut narrows and things tend to hang up a bit. A buy chain in bulk and make up my own, it is not expensive and worth it to have things cutting well again. Bars are not that bad price wise and worth replacing than trying to get more out of a worn one. Ken [/QUOTE]
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