Tips for a new grinder user

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Use the grinder to take down the rakers. It's the most consistent and quick tool you have for this job. You can always round off the leading edges with a file afterward, if that's important to you.
I had problems using my grinding wheel on the rakers. The rakers are wider than the wheel and I had to hit each one several times which left them uneven. Do you grind each one a few times and then even it up with a file or do you slowly move the rakers while you grind? I've been using a flat file on the rakers but I'm slow at it and I have to measure each one. For many guys, sharpening by hand is the best way to go but I would't be able to sharpen my own chains without a grinder.
 
I had problems using my grinding wheel on the rakers. The rakers are wider than the wheel and I had to hit each one several times which left them uneven. Do you grind each one a few times and then even it up with a file or do you slowly move the rakers while you grind? I've been using a flat file on the rakers but I'm slow at it and I have to measure each one. For many guys, sharpening by hand is the best way to go but I would't be able to sharpen my own chains without a grinder.

Flat file and the gauge tool make it quick and easy. Using a file makes it easy to keep the shape of the rakers as well. Or switch to a 1/4" wheel on the grinder and go 'round again after the cutters are done. But your rakers will get "flat-topped" doing it that way.
 
Here's a milling chain and the way I do all my chains.



 
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