Bob, this is good learning stuff for me. I think I get what you're saying in general but don't understand about negative rake? Could you elaborate on that a bit more?
You've convinced me; there is plenty of tooth left on that chain to grind to correct angles so that gives me something to do tomorrow.
I am switching over to the other chain tomorrow and hope to finish my sawing. Hopefully, I'll see even better performance. I'll post some close up pics of what I sawed so far with the incorrectly ground chain ( which ain't too bad in my opinion) and some that I saw with the correctly ground chain. I hope someone will post pics of something they have cut with a store-bought ripping chain (or by someone who actually knows what they are doing) to see how close I'm getting.
Also, it might have been my scrawny accountant arms that were getting dull and causing the slower cutting. Dear Lord, I could barely move today but I truly, truly enjoyed sawing up the lumber LOL!!
You've convinced me; there is plenty of tooth left on that chain to grind to correct angles so that gives me something to do tomorrow.
I am switching over to the other chain tomorrow and hope to finish my sawing. Hopefully, I'll see even better performance. I'll post some close up pics of what I sawed so far with the incorrectly ground chain ( which ain't too bad in my opinion) and some that I saw with the correctly ground chain. I hope someone will post pics of something they have cut with a store-bought ripping chain (or by someone who actually knows what they are doing) to see how close I'm getting.
Also, it might have been my scrawny accountant arms that were getting dull and causing the slower cutting. Dear Lord, I could barely move today but I truly, truly enjoyed sawing up the lumber LOL!!