The dreaded hardened tooth/raker

[jakethesnake]

I finally ran into a raker I can't file. It's hard as hell I don't have a grinder How you fellas get them set. Carlton chain If I keep swiping at it gonna *f-word my file up.
I'll get it one way or another but I know I've heard of this before

 

[Wilhelm]

Flat diamond file for precision?

A regular small angle grinder does the trick, no precision though.

 

[jakethesnake]

Yeah I've had a hardened tooth but the depth guage is a pain I was just touching it up Maybe have to pull a dremel or somthing out

 

[Gunn]

Got a dremel or something to grind the raker? They usually aren't hardened much depth wise.

 

[junkman]

I use a bar dressing file on the rakers ,it is about an inch or so wide ,works better than the thin raker files ,the 6 sided files for square cutters i have do not seem to do rakers either when i try them .

 

[jakethesnake]

I didn't finish the job but I am using a offers file all was going normal and I ran into that guy Hard as hell. I think if I grind it down with a dremel or whatever is near at the time I'll be able to file it from then on

 

[junkman]

The bigger ones are the ones i use for harder rakes ,the small one on bottom is reg raker file

 

[jakethesnake]

I was afraid to use one of my good files as I didn't wanna damage it. Worst thing is it was laying right on the other side of the bench. I will try that first

 

[junkman]

If you have the little 3 inch cutoff wheels ,should be able t eyeball close enough nipping the tips off ,if a file wont do it .

 

[hseII]

If you have the little 3 inch cutoff wheels ,should be able t eyeball close enough nipping the tips off ,if a file wont do it .

 

[jakethesnake]

The bigger ones are the ones i use for harder rakes ,the small one on bottom is reg raker file
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Good call Brian. I pulled a big file out today. While the raker is obviously way harder than it should be on this loop, they couldn't take the side edge of a "real" file seems like this loop may be hardened throughout the whole raker but I now know exactly how to approach this in the future. Funny I didn't even think to try it. Literally had to walk twenty paces to pick up tat file.