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I do it all the time to hold those little 1/4" pitch trimmer chains with their .043 drivers

used and/or new chains, might try soaking them for a bit in a heavy weight/ bar oil so that the the internals of the chain are lubricated. the new generation saws are pretty skimpy on oil even cranking wide open. If the chains get to dry they tend to bind internally could be the difficulty. I...

simington $1599 T&S $2399

Some of the .050 stuff is getting particularly less robust on the complete assembly, needless to say stretching is a bad issue with that stuff. doesn't seem to be too much of and issue with full sized 3/8 but any of the half height verisons are pretty wimpy. Had a lot of problems last year-...

My shins are quivering just looking at that.

Seen a lot of 325 with .058- not always stilh chain . Just ran a bucket of chains for a customer, got to have a conversation with them as they are useing .325 but drive links are .050,.058,.063 all in the same drive count and all stilh- some one isn't paying attention I think.

same could be said of certain areas of city kids as well

possibly voltage limit /gate control, not every thing works on 5v, some areas only range from .5 to 1.5v,

Those hall effect circuits are noted for failing across everything they are put in. Kinda like when mosfets first appeared. If you looked at them cross-eyed they failed, or the cheap capacitors used by one particular computer mfg in 90's.

if you are just using an ohm meter to read voltage , you really need to see the current draw. You could have the voltage but lack amperage. case in point about a year ago I was having problems with a tool and cutter grinder, no grinding motor function yet all points I checked said voltage...

those are what i use on mine. works very well for across the width of the face, but not for truing out of round If the support you are using the truing stone on flexes you not acomplishing much in trying to get stone perfectly round. I realize that at the slow rpm it is not a big deal...

The stone that came on my WEN is out of round, not enough for me to consider taking it down to my shop and tossing it on the lathe with mutipoint dresser in the tool post. There is to much give in the fixture support arm to accomplish that kind of truing.

Not sure of the tormac but my Wen is a friction drive, so when not in use make sure to back the friction pressure off to zero to avoid creating a flat spot on the components.

take your wheel and check it for balance. easy to make a balance unit, hard part is finding an arbor of the correct size.

wen , clone of tormac