Thoughts on new stihl rapid duro chain?

[tim361]

I brought a new saw this week and it comes fitted with stihl's new duro chain. It's got high carbon teeth and is meant to need sharpening four times less. All sounds great until you find out the price for a replacement 14" chain is £45. Does anyone have any experience of the chains and are they worth the money.

[Stubby]

I think once it goes blunt , which it will eventually , It will be harder to resharpen . Don't want to piss on any fireworks just my thoughts ./

[Eddy_t]

I heard it needs a grinder to sharpen

[Johny Walker]

I brought a new saw this week and it comes fitted with stihl's new duro chain. It's got high carbon teeth and is meant to need sharpening four times less. All sounds great until you find out the price for a replacement 14" chain is £45. Does anyone have any experience of the chains and are they worth the money.

 

you wont sharpen it wi a file ,not a stihl 1, any way , bench grinder job ,not realy practical in the arb job ,

[18 stoner]

Once its blunt, bin it, then fit oregon.

[Tilio-acerion]

Duro (carbide tipped) chain can only be sharpened with a grinder and you'll need the correct disk for such a chain.

 

Duro chain is worth it for cutting timber with a lot of soil/grit on it (ie skidded lengths, stumps down to ground level) as it won't dull as easily as standard chain, but for any other application I wouldn't bother.

[Figgy]

If you can get a diamond file the right size sharpening shouldn't be a problem.

 

Read a post not long ago about round diamond stones for handheld electric chain sharpener.

 

Figgy

[treequip]

If you can get a diamond file the right size sharpening shouldn't be a problem.

 

Read a post not long ago about round diamond stones for handheld electric chain sharpener.

 

Figgy

 

Have you tried that? Disregard that question, its rhetorical, you clearly haven’t tried it

 

I have a couple of diamond files and they are great for putting a killer edge on a standard tooth but they are a polishing tool, compared to a standard file they are completely unsuited to sharpening a blunt chain. I cant imagine the chore it would be to set about a carbide tooth with what is essentially a honing tool.

 

The only way to sharpen a carbide tipped chain is with a green grit wheel on a grinder

[treequip]

I brought a new saw this week and it comes fitted with stihl's new duro chain. It's got high carbon teeth and is meant to need sharpening four times less. All sounds great until you find out the price for a replacement 14" chain is £45. Does anyone have any experience of the chains and are they worth the money.

 

Its a specialised chain, not much good for evryday use.

 

 

Its unusual for a saw to be supplied with anything but standard

 

Bin it and get a standard chain

[Figgy]

Have you tried that? Disregard that question, its rhetorical, you clearly haven’t tried it

 

I have a couple of diamond files and they are great for putting a killer edge on a standard tooth but they are a polishing tool, compared to a standard file they are completely unsuited to sharpening a blunt chain. I cant imagine the chore it would be to set about a carbide tooth with what is essentially a honing tool.

 

The only way to sharpen a carbide tipped chain is with a green grit wheel on a grinder

 

With it being a carbide chain I thought it would only need honing,didn't think it would get mullered like a standard steel chain.

 

Figgy