just got my chain back from being sharpened.....

[swampy6]

Did they give you the wrong chain?

 

[Mat4644]

It's common, shops butcher them all the time.

 

[old and tired]

Did they keep the new chain for themselves, and just handed you an old one that was hanging on the wall??

 

[Industrial Toys]

I never sharpen a chain on a saw. I have a pretty good sharpener, copy of an Oregon, that I must start using on account of my friend/small engine customer that used to sharpen them moved away.

But I'm a guy that can't cut anything staright with a hacksaw or handsaw to save my life, so never thought I would get the angles right for hand filing.

 

[RandyT]

It's common, shops butcher them all the time.

And this is unfortunate. There is no practical reason for a shop to be taking off that much material in one sharpening. For a mower/saw business sharpening chains is a loosing money situation and there is very little to no profit is selling chain. There is no reason why the tech can't set up the sharpener to take off just the damaged part of the chain. In most cases there is no reason to take off more than about .010 per sharpening. Been doing it for 23 years, and I don't burn cutters, and have been known to get over a dozen sharpening out of a customer chain with an electric chain grinder.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Gosh, You almost make it sound like there are employees out there that still care, or even care to think about their work.

 

[YLee Kioti]

The HF sharpener has a big following on u-toob......on how to tweak and make fine adjustments prior to sharpening.......I like it because it let's me know I'm in good OCD company....
Also HF has a nice saw blade sharpener and yup, lots of videos on tweaking those as well.......
I just learned this, so don't jump on me, but there is a line on top of the tooth for the limit of material left for use.
Who knew???:confused3:

 

[Industrial Toys]

My friend showed me how to use mine before he left. I forgot almost everything.

You need the right wheel for the particular chain.

You need to keep the wheel dressed and use a plastic gauge thing for that.

You need to take down the guides too periodically.

 

[bobmisi]

When I sharpen I take off the minimum to get the chain sharp. What I hate is when someone brings me a chain to sharpen that they have hand filed and all the teeth are different lengths and every one has a different angle. Most times I have to sharpen the chain twice to get it right. There is no money in that. If you get your chain back and it is blue and the chain has burnt metal hanging off the teeth or just blue, the person doesn't know what they are doing and you should find someone else to do your work. Sharpening a chain is very simple and also most shops sharpen all chains to the same angles even though they should have different angles for different gauge and pitch chain. Not many places care about the customer or their reputation any more. When you sharpen to a set angle you have to grind more off a customers chain to get it to your angle not what the customer brought it.

 

[4570Man]

I could put a chain on backwards and cut a sidewalk and do as good as most of these “sharpening” shops. In their defense you can only sharpen a good chain. If it has damage or has already been poorly sharpened it takes a lot of work to make right without ruining it and the shops aren’t going to do that.