Some amateur sharpening questions

[ZeroJunk]

I am not sure if there is any advantage to sharpening in or out . Some old loggers did one side of the chain one way and the other the other. When I came up you had no choice. You did it by hand, no guide, no nothing.

It is not rocket surgery. File it whatever angle suits you, 30 degrees maybe. And down whatever suits you. 15 degrees maybe. I promise you it is not critical within a few degrees ad long as they are the same.

If you cannot file a chain consistently at the same angle then there is no help for you.

Pay somebody to do it for you.

 

[SteveSr]

I am not sure if there is any advantage to sharpening in or out .

I think that you want to always file inside to outside. The reason that I was told that if you file it the other way the first thing that the file touches id the hard chrome plating which will ruin a file in short order.