Bar Groove Cleaning Tool

[67 Mustang]

These work good too, This is what i always use. A painters tool.

OOps! Didn't see that one Stihl. Got an eye appointment next week. Maybe I nee some new glasses?

 

[slowp]

I thought I saw a tape on your side in one of those pictures. Use your spencer tape nail. Always at your side, never loose it.

That was phase 2 of yesterday, clean the rig inside and out and find the tape.
Taking stuff out to do chaser work upset the delicate balance of the inside of the Vortec. Translation: Things got buried in the back seat from digging out cotton gloves for chokers. Fingers were too cold after working on Twinkle. I'm not allowed to have keys to the heated shop. Only special people who usually take Fridays off have those keys. So my workbench is the tailgate and it is solar heated. There was no heat source yesterday. Poor Twinkle.

There's always pop cans rattling around in the Vortec, or beer cans to be found alongside the roads. Busch lite is the easiest to find.

 

[B_Turner]

Here's a real McCoy bar groove cleaning tool.

Those are my favorite tools for cleaning the groove of a bar. Are they still available anywhere? I can't remember where I got mine.

I also use the Oregon depth gauge tool (the "points"), but the long point one in picture does a better job of scraping out the crud at the bottom of the groove.

 

[Metals406]

slowp, this really should be in that metal fabbing thread

LOL... She would be guaranteed rep if she did.

 

[toddol1971]

I've used alot of different stuff over the years, & I'm telling ya that a used, or new for that matter sawzall blade works better than anything else. I use the butt end.

 

[HolmenTree]

Here's a real McCoy bar groove cleaning tool.

My Oregon hook tool looks just like your Stihl hook except mine doesn't have the oil hole /pad slot cleaning tail. Had a tailed Stihl one once but was hard on my pocket, plus getting poked in the family jewels didn't help either. The Oregon hook is great because it is gauged to resize .050 bar rails by hammering.

 

[slowp]

Well, I'll just improve my SW Warshington style bar groove tool and wrap some pink duck tape around the handle. That'll make it perfect and easy to find alongside the road.:greenchainsaw:

 

[spankrz]

lol....
i think im the only person on the whole forum that actually uses the stihl gap tool....

the stihl one is the same size that the gap is supposed to be, so you know if it is squeezed in.

they all do the job though.

 

[stihl sawing]

A small screwdriver, Flat tip of course works great too.

 

[turnkey4099]

This handy tool can be used to file rakers and has a bar cleaning end. One is thicker than the other so that you can clean .050 and .063 gauge. It allows you to really get in and clean out the impacted grunge in the bar groove.

JQ

I was wondering if someone would point out that many depth guages have the clean out points right on them. Mine is Stihl.

Harry K

 

[rngrchad]

I can't believe I took a picture of this just to post here, but all shame aside here is my bar cleaner:

 

[stihl sawing]

I can't believe I took a picture of this just to post here, but all shame aside here is my bar cleaner:

Really short saw for sawing tiny pieces of wood,...........Just kidding. If it works that's all that matters.

 

[rngrchad]

Really short saw for sawing tiny pieces of wood,...........Just kidding. If it works that's all that matters.

LOL, stihl sawing, this bar cleaner also doubles as a "limbing saw".

 

[slowp]

LOL, stihl sawing, this bar cleaner also doubles as a "limbing saw".

Well, it definitely isn't for limbing in the PNW. Must be an east coast limbing saw.

 

[thejdman04]

Looks good.

 

[JONSEREDFAN6069]

i use a 90 degree pick that i heated and flattened in the vise. works gr8

 

[rngrchad]

Well, it definitely isn't for limbing in the PNW. Must be an east coast limbing saw.

When I lived in Washington, my "west coast" version was made of an old two-man cross-cut saw. It sure was a pain to clean my bar groove with though

 

[slowp]

When I lived in Washington, my "west coast" version was made of an old two-man cross-cut saw. It sure was a pain to clean my bar groove with though

The one for falling or the one for bucking?

 

[landyboy]

I use a trimmed off end of a zip tie. Its almost the exact thickness of the slot, they can be found discarded on most garage floors, take up no space in a tool bag, and losing one is not a disaster.