Let's talk race chain

[~WBF]

Grind

Gotta make it cut good before ya bother with the chassis

Well now I am confused. Getting mixed messages.

1)Doesn't matter if you know how to file, make a race chain, the more teeth the merrier.

2)Yet you know how to 'file' but you won't make a 'race chain unless it cuts good?

Lol see some irony here.

I'll figure it out. That's why they pay me the big bucks

I get it, that falls in line with my old fashion way of thinking.

 

[Deets066]

Well now I am confused. Getting mixed messages.

1)Doesn't matter if you know how to file, make a race chain, the more teeth the merrier.

2)Yet you know how to 'file' but you won't make a 'race chain unless it cuts good?

Lol

I'll figure it out. That's why they pay me the big bucks

I get it, that falls in line with my old fashion way of thinking.

Sometimes no matter what you do, you just can’t make a chain as fast as it should be. Other chains just wow you, those are the ones you want to sink your time in.

 

[Hedgerow]

Had to see if it would make a difference...


It didn’t...

 

[Hedgerow]

 

[old guy]

Sounds a smidge lean there.

 

[~WBF]

I bet that was interesting trying to hold it in your fingers lol. I can maintain a chain on the saw ,but not doing a conversion from round to square.

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Yeah, it was kinda like kissing 'your' sister. .It was a little awkward a first. J/k

Yeah I guess I was a keener. Think I did a few with beaks and figured I needed to carve it back with my raker file. I made a couple respectable teeth for what I had to work with and zero experience . I knew mentally the right profile.

I do round file a lot in camp on a bar in a vise
I don't even weight it down. Just tight rails and pinch right at the tooth
It's nice to have a spare ready to go in case it's raining real heavy. At least you have options. Start out in the morning with two good to go again.

 

[concretegrazer]

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Picco is supposed to be a no no. But...

Looks great but I think your heading the wrong way.

 

[Hedgerow]

 

[Deets066]

Looks great but I think your heading the wrong way.

Why is that? With the picco? Or angles?

 

[~WBF]

Why is that? With the picco? Or angles?

Hedge was going the wrong way. maybe wrong quote wasn't his chain on backwards. I thought

 

[concretegrazer]

Why is that? With the picco? Or angles?

I wouldn't beak it.

If it'll pull that I wouldn't mess with picco.

 

[Deets066]

I wouldn't beak it.

If it'll pull that I wouldn't mess with picco.

That’s the bad thing about a grinder. Some teeth beak more than others.

This one still has some but not bad

 

[concretegrazer]

That’s the bad thing about a grinder. Some teeth beak more than others.
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This one still has some but not bad

Use the stops on the first pass and the force on the final.

 

[Deets066]

Use the stops on the first pass and the force on the final.

I hear ya

 

[Deets066]

Should get a chance to try it out tomorrow, smallest sprocket I have is an 8 pin picco. Has done fine in the past with it though.

If that isn’t the ticket I can always put the 9 on.

Lol

 

[Deets066]

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Had to see if it would make a difference...


It didn’t...

Did you tunnel the cutters before you tried that?

May have similar effect as tunneling. But only need one?

 

[Hedgerow]

I hear ya

I just use the force..
The backs of the tie straps are lying bastards....

 

[Deets066]

I just use the force..
The backs of the tie straps are lying bastards....

That they are

 

[Hedgerow]

Sounds a smidge lean there.

Just a little run on...

It happens....

 

[Deets066]

Sounds a smidge lean there.

Just a little run on...

It happens....

Actually the idle screw was still turned in from stoning the chain.