Well I went right out and Googled it up and in the reviews one caught my eye fast. Basically it said I bought mine with the auto feed system, if I were to do it again I would not buy that option. He went on to say that you had to fiddle with it a bunch to get it to feed correctly. He said that you really have to practice how hard to move the mechanism that moves the chain or it would not move it far enough or too far. He said by the time he messed with it enough to get the feed right he could have feed it by hand faster.
I wondered how you got all that movement to go the correct distance?? and end up under the wheel where it should be. For a while I was a saw filer for a larger lumber company here in Maine. I used a couple big saw sharpener machines one for my 6' gang saws and one for my 40' double cut band saw. They both were operated by VERY precise cams that lowered the wheel and moved to the saw to the next tooth at the exact correct time. I can tell you with all the confidence anyone here could ever want, Most if not all of these grinders were being used WAY WAY WAY to aggressively. I would say they were on average removing 20-40 thousands' per chop. I would suggest 10 thousands per drop and no more.
You should try my rule of thumb lets call it the rule of sparks.
Pretend you have been tasked to count the sparks given off by each drop of the Grinding wheel. Lets say there are 3 settings on your grinder .First setting is 20 sparks, for a lite touch up and back into production. Second setting is 30 sparks, the chain was rocked and you are trying to get it back into shape without over heating the chain. This may have to run through the chain twice maybe more. Third setting is 50 sparks, broken teeth and the saw will be completely re profiled and stated over again only on band saws and gang saws never on a chainsaw chain. This is a case where less is more WAY more. Remember if you had to count the sparks you wouldn't want to make too many now would ya? This is an exaggeration but you should get my line of thought. Jeff
I wondered how you got all that movement to go the correct distance?? and end up under the wheel where it should be. For a while I was a saw filer for a larger lumber company here in Maine. I used a couple big saw sharpener machines one for my 6' gang saws and one for my 40' double cut band saw. They both were operated by VERY precise cams that lowered the wheel and moved to the saw to the next tooth at the exact correct time. I can tell you with all the confidence anyone here could ever want, Most if not all of these grinders were being used WAY WAY WAY to aggressively. I would say they were on average removing 20-40 thousands' per chop. I would suggest 10 thousands per drop and no more.
You should try my rule of thumb lets call it the rule of sparks.
Pretend you have been tasked to count the sparks given off by each drop of the Grinding wheel. Lets say there are 3 settings on your grinder .First setting is 20 sparks, for a lite touch up and back into production. Second setting is 30 sparks, the chain was rocked and you are trying to get it back into shape without over heating the chain. This may have to run through the chain twice maybe more. Third setting is 50 sparks, broken teeth and the saw will be completely re profiled and stated over again only on band saws and gang saws never on a chainsaw chain. This is a case where less is more WAY more. Remember if you had to count the sparks you wouldn't want to make too many now would ya? This is an exaggeration but you should get my line of thought. Jeff