today I will be showing you how to use the Harbor Freight electric chainsaw
change rpenter at first it looks a little confusing however it actually is
fairly simple for starters mount it on a nice solid
surface I just have it mounted on my old work table here
simply put insert the chain into the slider now you want the cutting edge
facing you or facing away from the front unit and this unit actually swivels our
session say facing you you want the cutting edge facing the right so if I go
like this it would take chunks out of my finger go the other way it does not it's
a few components you have the adjustment bar here which is a little knob on the
top side this adjusts how far down it goes so you don't end up cutting your
chain in half this will end up hanging stopper there this along with this bar
adjust how far over towards the grinding wheel that the chain will go this right
here blocks the chain in place now since I already have the wheel this are the
chain base in this direction now I have to set how many degrees the cutting edge
is at right now it's at 25 which is actually the wrong cutting angle and
they see xxx
in this chain would have a 30 degree edge okay so now I have the angle and
now when you switch it around which I'll show you in a minute
then you switch it to the degree how many degrees facing the other direction
to cut because the edges are different directions so first time or all the way
around we're going to only cut the edges that are one direction and then we'll
switch it around and then cut the ones that are the other direction so now we
have to set how much we'll be taking off right now it's not set far enough as the
cutting edge will not touch the blade so that's when you turn this righty-tighty
brings it the chain ting and it's closer to the blade and get it just barely
touches now we turn it a little bit more
until that cutting wheel just just barely shaves off the edge of the
cutting a little bit of the cutting edge you don't want to take too much off
we're off the chain quicker we just want enough to bring it back to sharp and
that's the spot right there so now we're going to lock the chain in place
get yourself a permanent marker and what you want to do is you want to mark the
tooth that you're starting with that way you don't go all the way around just to
realize oh I forgot where I started I'm just going to keep going at it so the
first one
I remember and I you the next one is a different angle skip that one and then
go to the next one and it looks like I need to adjust my work light socket it's
a little loose
now sometimes the story is for a loop and have two of the same in a row
carpe attention
quite literally is that simple
and just takes a quick little touch doesn't take much to sharpen me unless
you really let let it get bad
nice and sharp
this one's been sharpened a couple times already would say got maybe four or five
more sharpening before this one needs to get replaced
getting close to the end of the first night
Oh you know
and you can see I have that one marked that was the first tooth we did turned
the knob on the underside now you can swivel that was 30 degrees
so we just go back to 30 degrees mark down here on this side so now instead of
cutting the tooth that goes this way it's now going to be the tooth that goes
that way so loosen that up now when you switch sides sometimes wear can be a
little uneven so when you switch sides you want to just double-check with the
cutting wheel and you might have to readjust the the distance this one's
right spot-on we don't need to make another mark since
we know when we get back to that black mark again or the first tooth you did
before that you're done and you are ready we'll just go at it again
so now one thing to keep in mind before you start sharpening your chains make
sure your chain is clean not dripping with bar and chain oil try and get as
much you know get the sawdust off of it
if your chain is heavily rusted do you rust it first clean and be rusted before
sharpening
now there are similar products to this one you can get them at Northern Tool
Home Depot farm and flee my nards low just about any hardware store a lot of
different brands sty pretty much they're all the same design i've probably
sharpen 200 chain so far and this wheels still going good I'm still in the
original wheel I've had this thing for 10 years and I've actually just started
selling my services on Craigslist sharpening chains
yeah guy prank break 20 change tomorrow
at 4 bucks a chain fine with me he said he could get the machine and do it
himself but he said he'd rather just drop them off pick them all if all done
the next day fine with me in about 4 bucks a chain and then
someone brings in bulk and there is our black mark that means this chain is done
and it feels nice and sharp I always keep a board over here and lay them out
flat that way I can inspect them make sure there's no damage flip them around
and here's the next one which I'm not going to do on video there's no reason
to but well as long as I have it here now once you're done with the chain if
you have another one just leave the angle you know the side you're already
working on we see what the
angle is in this chain no reason to swivel it all the way back around if
you're this one depth was a little too low for this chain there's no reason to
switch everything all the way back around cuz you're gonna just have to
turn it around anyways so now this one is all set for sharpening let's just put
it this way my dad does not know how to maintain equipment ever nothing snow
blowers lawn mowers chain saws chains so he's got a fairly nice step so what I
ended up doing some of you got rusted he rusted I have a his special rest roomer
compound I use first ID Grissom so on and so forth make sure they're all free
moving no damage just really don't I mean literally he runs his change until
instead of cutting you just create lots of smoke and I can start yourself a
campfire so he goes I get him in that baby fresh diaper white box clean them
up sharpen them and what I do since he's got so many changed and if you are doing
chainsaw you know landscaping something for a
living or you just use a chainsaw a lot is that these containers are actually
really nice for that and what I ended up doing started this a couple years ago
got a nice cheap can of silicon spray these are about two bucks liquid wrench
makes a nice can also great for spring on your snowblower shoot to keep the
snow from sticking is I take the can
it's almost empty I do a nice spray in there close it and just leave it all in
there and it's a nice nice slick coating on the chains keeps them from rusting if
there was you know maybe a little bit of a stickiness in one of the the chain the
chain joints freeze that up makes it nice and good
and knocking storm without having to worry about you know arrest rusting away
and seizing up saying it was back to the Harbor Freight chainsaw chain sharpener
this one's like I says about ten years old
item number is nine three two one three you can tell it's cheaply made I think
the ryobi has one where it's all nice heat sink two fins but I mean it's cool
I mean it's nice relatively cool it's 90 something degrees out right now really
have a humidity but in for 39 bucks $39.99 and of course Harbor Freight 20%
off coupon plus your free item so you know once you add that on 20% off coupon
and $39.99 that's two four six eight dollars off you're getting and
save some money get one of these buggers in for 32 plus tax compared to the
competition I'm seeing competitor units while they might look a little nicer
they do the exact same thing maybe the last longer I don't know like I said
I've done plenty of chains and I've had this thing for 10 years it's working
like a champ and they're all competitors a senior going for about 100 plus I'll
take 30 to over 100 plus works great might not have metal everything like the
others but actually like the idea of plastic for something like this
it's also got a nice lip that helps you line it up with the edge of your
workbench or cable I gotta tighten these little nuts down I mean they're both I
got six-inch long carriage bolts holding this to my bench wasn't anticipating I'm
leaving this up all the time but turns out like I said I got like 20 chains
coming tomorrow morning the gentleman's dropping off I did 15 for somebody else
today it's the end of the summer a landscapers are finally catching up with
stuff plus we're going into the heating season so not a lot of people are
cutting up their firewood so anyways if you need a chainsaw sharpener for the
price get this don't even waste your time doing it by hand forget that just
get this this thing's lasting it's doing a great job very impressed this is K
man's 8 plus rating this passes the Harbor Freight tool text so I mean it
does not pass the Harbor Freight tool text these long screwdrivers they just
seem to fall apart and round off so I use these for
dipping and hang up my Chin's in my rust remover and degreaser baths solemn smile
cheese