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When to acuminate your chainsaw chain

Inspect the chainsaw chain to meet if its broken, needs repair or replaced. Your concatenation should be sharpened every fourth dimension you fill your chainsaw with fuel. If the wood debris from your chain looks similar grit (as opposed to fries), this is an indicator that your chain is dull and needs to be sharpened. Having to forcefulness your concatenation to go it to cutting is another sign of deadening chain.

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Top Plate
Cutting Corner
Slide Plate
Depth Gauge
Gullet
Toe
Heel
Rivet Hole
Clearance Angle
Depth Gauge

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Step by Pace: What You Should Do Earlier Sharpening a Chainsaw Chain

What You Will Need

Gloves
Protective eyewear
Chainsaw Filing Kit (Circular File, File Guide, Apartment File and Depth Approximate Measuring Tool)

Stride 1

If yous take whatever questions most sharpening your Oregon chain, call our technical services department at 800-223-5168 , Monday through Friday between 7:30 a.m. 4 p.grand. PDT.

Step 2

Earlier you acuminate your chainsaw, you demand to know the type of chain and sharpening angle specifications. Yous can find this information in your chain saw owner's manual or on the chain pack. The concatenation identification code is usually written on the driving link.

If you lot don't know your chain's blazon or number, ask your Oregon chain dealer or telephone call our technical services department 800-223-5168 . Refer to specifications for sharpening chain with an Electric Grinder or by hand with a Round File.

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Step 3

Put on your protective gear, including gloves and eye vesture.

Step 4

If you are sharpening chain while information technology is fastened to the concatenation saw bar, make certain it'south tensioned properly first.

Stride 5

Make sure your chain saw is turned off before yous perform any maintenance.

Step 6

Wipe oil and grease off the chain. This step will forbid build-up from occurring on the file's teeth or the wheel when grinding.

Step 7

Audit the chainsaw chain for damage.

Here'southward what you should look out for:

Proper installation of tie straps and drive links
Cracked or broken cutters, cutter top plates or necktie straps
Bent, cracked or burned drive links
Astringent annoying damage
Abnormally worn chain
Wear patterns that may indicate a worn bar or sprocket. Refer to the Oregon Saw Chain Condom & Maintenance Transmission for more than information.
Loose rivets (Endeavour rotating the rivets with your fingers – if you tin can do this, they are too loose.)

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Step 8

If you are filing your chainsaw concatenation by hand, select and use the correctfile guide and file for your saw concatenation. This is the easiest way to file saw chain.

Pace 9

If the concatenation is broken, repair or replace it.

Stride 10

Check and accommodate depth gauges.

Footstep 11

Acuminate your chain to manufacturer'southward recommendations, keeping it balanced.

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Stride by Step: How to Acuminate with a Round File

The goal of filing is to remove all damage, while keeping the chainsaw chain balanced.

What You Will Need

Gloves
Protective eyewear
Chainsaw filing kit
Chainsaw chain

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Step 1

Engage the concatenation brake, then lightly clamp the chainsaw bar in bench vice. So release the chain brake to be able to rotate the concatenation by paw (be sure to wear gloves when yous practise this).

Pace 2

If you are using a file guide, place information technology over the cutter with the file in the gullet (betwixt the cutter and the depth judge). Make sure the file guide has ii points of contact, ane point of contact on the cutter superlative plate and two on the depth gauge.

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Step 3

Hold the file in the right location and then that 1/v", or 20%, of the file's diameter is positioned above the cutter'due south summit plate. Using an Oregon File Guide is the easiest way to hold the file in this position.

Footstep 4

Cheque to see if the top plate filing angle should exist parallel to chainsaw chain centerline.

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Pace 5

Locate the cutter with the most damage. Sharpen using steady, even strokes (the "full file length") to remove the impairment while counting the number of file strokes.

You'll know the harm is removed when the cutter has a shiny, silver face. File all of the cutters with the same number of strokes per cutter from the inside to the exterior and so that the cutter lengths are equal.

Step 6

Complete all the cutters on 1 side of the concatenation, before turning your chain to switch sides.

File from the inside of each cutter to the outside. Complete all the cutters on one side of the concatenation. Once you are washed, plough your saw effectually to repeat the process for the other side of the chain. Recall, proceed all cutter lengths equal.

Step 7

File back to remove harm and keep tiptop plates equal in length.

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Recheck depth gauges.

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Step by Step: How to Sharpen a Chainsaw Chain with an Oregon Electrical Sharpener

These instructions are meant to be general guidelines. Refer to your grinder transmission for set-upwards use and instructions.

Grind your chain then that information technology meets the recommendations of the manufacturer. Use a quick tapping movement to minimize over heating of the ground surface.

Footstep 1

Bank check the grinder wheel shape.

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Footstep 2

Set vise assembly to the right meridian plate filing bending.

Refer to your grinder's transmission to acquire the best manner to do this.

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Step 3

Use the recommended top-plate cutting angle to prepare the proper grinder caput bending.

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Step 4

Cheque that the vise blocking handle is screwed in tight and that the concatenation is blocked.

Step 5

Plough on the electric sharpener.

Footstep 6

Sharpen the cutter by lowering the arm-motor unit.

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Step 7

When you are done sharpening the cutter, enhance the arm and loosen the handle.

Step viii

Run the chain forward to position the adjacent cutter to be sharpened.

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Step 9

Block again with the handle and sharpen.

Step 10

When all the cutters are sharpened, turn the machine off and unplug the power cable.

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Clothes vitrified grinding wheels often to maintain right shape.

Use either a rotary dresser or a dressing brick.

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Pace by Step: What You Should Do After Sharpening a Chainsaw Chain

Stride 1

Check and adjust depth gauges using instructions found here.

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Step ii

Clean off whatever debris, so lubricate the chain thoroughly with bar and chain oil. For the best results, soak the chain overnight.

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Step 3

Store the sharpened saw chain in a container with lubricant so that it'due south ready for its adjacent use.

Oregon strongly encourages condom work practices and always recommends the use of appropriate rubber dress. Persons demonstrating technical product information in videos or photography do not necessarily stand for proper safety habits for any given job.