How to square file

[RI Chevy]

The stopwatch don't lie. Nice job.

 

[Spladle160]

Here's the same saw with out of the box 33RS in the same wood. I didn't do any fancy frame counting or anything but I'm seeing about a 1 second gain.

 

[RI Chevy]

Still looks good...[emoji106]

 

[mdavlee]

New off the roll 33RS was 6 seconds in the same cut. I converted it and am about a second better. That's nearly 20% gain which seems like a lot to me. That being said some of my cutters look as good as Dolkitas and some don't and the angles and tooth lengths aren't as consistent as I'd like.

I measured the rakers with a depth gauge and they were 35-40 thousandths. Then I remembered why that chain had been hanging up. I set the rakers on the grinder and the bump stop wasn't quite where I thought.

All in all I'm pretty happy with it but know there are still significant gains to be had. Another second off? Maybe with full blown race chain and the saw having more than half an hour of break in. year plus aged red oak is not speed wood.

20-30% is a good improvement on a work chain. Race chain I liked to see 40-50% on them.

 

[Spladle160]

I've only done 4 or 5 chains but 20-30% and 40-50% seems about right. This is just a quickly converted work chain. I'm sure with a little more consistent angle and tooth lengths it would easily be in the 20-30% faster than out of the box range and it didn't take that long to convert maybe 30 or 40 minutes.

 

[N8TE]

Ima stay in the shop and keep workin this square stuff I think....

 

[RI Chevy]

You NEED a chain vise from Mike.
Take your hand filing to a whole new level.

 

[N8TE]

You NEED a chain vise from Mike.
Take your hand filing to a whole new level.

Is it one of those must have, make your life easier deals?

 

[RI Chevy]

Yes it is.. lol

 

[Wolverine]

Is it one of those must have, make your life easier deals?

No, you can use a vice grip and do one tooth at a time.

 

[N8TE]

No, you can use a vice grip and do one tooth at a time.
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Yup, I've done that more than once!

 

[Spladle160]

I love my chain vise from Mike but there are some benefits to the vise grips as well such as having more clearance, not hitting tie straps, access the the front of the raker if you want to take it down.

I think the chain vise is faster overall but if I was trying to file a race chain it would be vise grips all the way.

 

[Mkinslow]

I modified my vise-grip version

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[Wilhelm]

Hi. If you wants to cut fast you need a Huski.

LMAO. Yes Bjorn. Too funny.
They just gotta be fixed first after using metal detector to find all the screws that fell out after warming up the saw.

Dolmar FTW

 

[Wolverine]

Dolmar FTW

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Meh.

 

[Dolkitafreak]

 

[RI Chevy]

Awesome job. Looks ground, not hsnd filed.

 

[Dolkitafreak]

Awesome job. Looks ground, not hsnd filed.

Thanks! I wish I had a grinder...one can dream. Left all the filing dust on there for you

 

[RI Chevy]

Lol. Just funnin ya. Very nice job. You put it in wood yet? vids please.

 

[Dolkitafreak]

Lol. Just funnin ya. Very nice job. You put it in wood yet? vids please.

I have not. Going to test this chains vs a stock chain tomorrow for time on a ported 550xp. Can you add videos on here without them being YouTube videos?