Yes, but if you’re educating people about a chain sharpener on a chainsaw forum, it might be good to get the terminology straight.
Don’t want someone sticking the wrong dressing stick into a $100 cbn wheel...
I think I misunderstood your initial question, as I noted afterwards, especially within the context of
@Haywire Haywood asking his question. Just to clarify again regarding dressing, where I use "dressing" to mean reshaping a grinding wheel such that it serves the following two purposes of a) creating the correct grinding profile and b) revealing fresh abrasive material:
our current wheels can be dressed, that is, it can be both reshaped and fresh abrasive material can be exposed.
Of course, CBN wheels (like the ones we have in development)
cannot be completely dressed without effectively
destroying them by that two-part definition.
However, technically you can "dress" a CBN wheel by
only doing the second part b, exposing fresh abrasive material. This can be done
without attempting to reshape the wheel or completely removing layers of CBN, e.g. using aluminum oxide to remove resin, which exposes fresh CBN. However, I've seen some people interchange this with "cleaning" as well. Whether one chooses to call this "dressing" or "cleaning" can be confusing.
Our current wheels can technically be dressed/cleaned this way, but doesn't really need to be. Practically speaking, it will wear with use, thereby exposing new abrasive through use. As depth is set on the FP1000 per use, the grinding contact is maintained by this calibration.
No matter the word choice, our current and our CBN wheel can both have fresh abrasive material exposed.
Cleaning as I have seen it used means removing foreign crap off the wheel, e.g. removing tree sap from the wheel. Usually, this is done through the use of solvents. I cannot recommend solvents be used on our wheels, as how they may affect the wheels can cause damage to them.
I'm still a bit unsure about which question you were asking, but I hope this clarifies the definitions I've been using. I understand there is room for confusion, but I hope this clarifies what I mean, particularly in regards to our products!
I bought one of these and received it last week. It works well except when it ground the wrong way on a tooth for no apparent reason and ruined the tooth. Good thing I was standing there and could stop it from continuing. Hopefully this was a fluke and doesn't happen again. Now I need to get out and dull a couple chains and try it again.
That's an odd interaction with the proximity sensor. I wonder what would have triggered it? If you can, please gather as many details as you can about the instance, e.g. distance cutter was from the proximity sensor (the little blue button-like circle), cutter size, which number cut it was on in the loop, etc. It's the first I've heard of the machine doing this and would like to forward as much information to our engineer as possible.
Also, thank you for your purchase! It's likely that I'll personally be calling you in a few weeks regarding your experience with the product in general, so if you do receive a call, please mention you're an ArboristSite member! Til then, please post any other thoughts you have on it here!