sharpening problems

[Ty Korrigan]

(put my glasses on and everything) tried again, still crap.

 

That's where you went wrong, putting 'everything' on as well as your glasses...

Ty

[SteveA]

I'm pretty crap at manual sharpening but find a roller guide is a big help. Cheers, steve

[miker]

is the file biting into the tooth, you should feel it bite in, if you have hit a flint etc it will really harden the cutting edge and make it hard to sharpen, as others have said put a grinder on it or get your local shop to do it then use file next time you sharpen

[TGB]

I presume you're using the correct size round file for your given chain...

[pileswasp]

It just seems like the chain is really hard and the file ai t citting into it.

 

I had a brief foray with Carlton chains and had this exact feeling (Oregon files). Went back to Oregon chains and all is well again.

[needenginerunnin]

duff run of files, try a different brand or packet. give the chain to somebody else fresh pair of eyes and that.

[simplesmasher]

Gonna buy a grinder and give it a go.hit some dirt so rhis may have caused it to harden as per advice. The file doesnt bite at all it just slides

[kev7937]

i had a chain that a file just wouldnt touch just kept skidding about, ended up taking to the shop where they took it down on a grinder and then was fine after that...odd

not sure if thats whats happening to you?

carl

 

 

I've had the opposite, had a couple of 088 chains I didn't have the time to sharpen and dropped them in to a local work shop, when I came to resharpen them later it was like I had a knitting needle rather than a file.

 

Turns out they're been to hasty with the grinder and got them so hot they were too hard for the file to deal with.

[Stubby]

duff run of files, try a different brand or packet. give the chain to somebody else fresh pair of eyes and that.

 

Save Edge . Rob has them .

[devon TWiG]

On occasion the outer / upper layer of non shiny chrome extra hard layer on the surface can get bent down and the file seems to glide over it before getting a chance to bite in the area you try to sharpen , try some glasses or a magnifying glass for a close inspection at the cutters and the file ............. it is also true that good sharpening is a skill that seems to evade most pro arbs ... foresters are usually better !