sends me one.
If I knew a machinist versed in making small parts, it would be easy to replicate. The whole thing is cheap pot metal to start with and an accident waiting to happen, breakage-wise. It's a great design and no doubt the steel prototype was a fantastic little machine....good enough that Granberg made the cheap pot metal one as its imitator. 
Contact Homelite 410 that makes the file vises.Reviving this thread form the dead...anybody still out there??? I have an original G-107 that I bought from Granberg in the 70's. In the 80's when I contacted them, they had sold out all the existing models. I'm still limping along with it, but it needs severe help. I can't believe that no one foreign or domestic has made another jig to replace this old one.
I would think enough of us are still using chisel chain and this would be a lucrative venture for someone of machinist skills. Hell, I'd pay between $100-$200 for this little jig replicated in steel or decent alloy. You just wouldn't believe what I've had to do to make mine work over the yrs...I one time even threw the thing in the trash...but I can't find anything to replace for field work.
Kevin
Reviving this thread form the dead...anybody still out there??? I have an original G-107 that I bought from Granberg in the 70's. In the 80's when I contacted them, they had sold out all the existing models. I'm still limping along with it, but it needs severe help. I can't believe that no one foreign or domestic has made another jig to replace this old one.
I would think enough of us are still using chisel chain and this would be a lucrative venture for someone of machinist skills. Hell, I'd pay between $100-$200 for this little jig replicated in steel or decent alloy. You just wouldn't believe what I've had to do to make mine work over the yrs...I one time even threw the thing in the trash...but I can't find anything to replace for field work.
Kevin
Ask and you shall receive. OK, the first pic shows you the angles I use....don't know if you can really make them out; 20 & 35 degrees....pretty aggressive for chisel, but works well on large timber and I just got used to it. Third & fifth pic show you the jury rigging I had to do with the file after the original inserts broke into pieces. I made a permanent mark with red paint at the angle I wanted for the file itself...something like 8-10 degrees maybe. It would help if I could find the old literature to explain it better. In the seventh pic, the cutter stop is missing...this was a spring loaded POS, that wasn't supposed to move, but did and threw off your cutter length equalization. I think I just got mad and pitched it. It looks much the same on the present G-106B...but don't have one of those in my hand. The last two pics show you to what length I go to, to still use this jig. On pic six, if you look closely, you'll see some Allen screws into the base unit...that was after paying somebody to weld part of it, but couldn't get inside where the bar fits to do it proper. Basically, I can't clamp it anymore by itself....the old base just flares out. So I use those two clamps when on the bar and they work great, but limit your hand piece movement a bit.
