Are you starting out as a pawn broker ?Balls x 3
Not sure whether they are cast steel or cast iron. Hopefully they are weldable.
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The chain will only last until the shortest cutters are scrap, so your not loosing much by sharpening to the same length, and if your sharpening it evenly by file it will all be about the same. The lidl one has enough slop in the pivot you dont need to adjust, it will do for each side of the chain. Some improvements will greatly improve it.Not quicker as you have to remove the chain to sharpen it on the Lidl unit. If the teeth are different lengths, either due to wear or having to file a damaged tooth you'll find yourself constantly adjusting the jig to get all teeth sharpened. It also leaves a ragged edge that requires finishing with a file anyway if you want a nice smooth razor sharp edge.
It only takes a few seconds per tooth to give each tooth a couple of strokes with a file with the chain on the saw. By the time you've removed the chain & set it up in the grinder you'd have it sharpened with the file!
Let us know how you find them, have my eye on a set for my mobile tool kit.
I got to use the pry bars yesterday and they’re really good to use. Plenty of grip at the handle, didn’t detect any flex but wasn’t going overboard either. Bargain for the price
In Powerplant plant hire I used to make up as well as sharpen no end of chain saw chains , for the 20 fleet hire machines and those of professional chainsaw users using our Oregon sharpener . Most of the time the merest kiss of the stone was all that was needed to sharpen a tooth , it didn't seem to matter much if one tooth was slightly more ground back than the others so long as there was a decent cutting edge on the tooth .The chain will only last until the shortest cutters are scrap, so your not loosing much by sharpening to the same length, and if your sharpening it evenly by file it will all be about the same. The lidl one has enough slop in the pivot you dont need to adjust, it will do for each side of the chain. Some improvements will greatly improve it.
Ground teeth are far sharper than filed. The grains of the abrasive are much smaller than the file teeth. No neither of them really need the burrs to be removed as it will be stropped by the wood on the first cut. Theres a reason abrasives are used for almost all sharpening operations - knives, blades, tooling.
I have spare chains and they get swapped often, if they get dirty they need a proper clean anyway - soak in diesel for half hour. Recently been cutting a stump and plenty of mud has stuck in the links.
Got a link?Again, Friday.
I've a 30 or more year old Work zone scroll saw .......Again, Friday.
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I think the couriers here are trying to give me a hint to stop ordering machines/heavy'ish stuff. This is a protection piece which slots over the dust collector port for transit, to hopefully stop errant box chucking damage. Aye, that works.
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They'd managed to find the sweet spot for bouncing the box. That ended up bending the table bracket.
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Flattened & working now though.
A couple of modifications made. Brass spacer to bridge the thin air around the securing bolt between these two pieces, on one of the table brackets.
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Plus the obligatory brass thumbscrews on the side panel.
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Added a third at the rear end of the panel.
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Placed the hole that low so as to avoid the risk of running into the underside of the top, when drilling & tapping. That end of the cover is now well secured.
Got a link?
Surely that should be suspended from the head of a door frame so you can do your pull upsFriday.
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A tubular/greenhouse heater to try, in the workshop. Only a 55W unit. Main purpose is just incase temps drop, to try & stop the dehumidifier freezing. Happened a couple of times last winter.
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Got this to replace my welded up Record of a similar size that due to the welding the jaws didn't line up right on. This should be much better.
That'll be an interesting repair, weld and mill, I presume.....A brand new Clarke cold steel chop saw with coolant pump, i paid £30 quid for it , RRP £360 , with only one minor little itsy bitsy fault...
It was crushed during delivery to the warehouse and it's snapped in half .
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Aside from a suitable 16V psu, I'm assuming I need a docking station / port replicator to do much with this acquisition?
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