[TheForge] OT - tried to pull a Frosty

[Jerry Frost]

This is what I was referring to as "Floating the Rakers." It's what the 
woods rats I learned from called it. I use a smal single cut file.
Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
To: "theforge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT - tried to pull a Frosty


> Yes, I have a guage for setting the guide height and file them every other
> sharpening. I should check to make sure it is the right guage, since we 
> got
> it for my son's saw, it may leave the guides too high.  The power 
> sharpener
> has a way to set them, but it requires redressing the wheel to have a flat
> bottom, which is different than when sharpening the cutters.  The wheel
> would ware out pretty fast if I had to redress it every time I changed
> operations. The best solution would be to get a second wheel which was 
> only
> used to grind the guides.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
> ----Original message----
> From: Kim George <klgeorge at kent.edu>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT - tried to pull a Frosty
>
> Did you remember to take the guides down too? Between each tooth there
> is a guide that keeps the cutters from digging in too hard and bogging
> the engine down. If you sharpen the chain after a few times the
> clearance  thins the cut down to nothing.
>
> -- 
> Kim George
>