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Hey all today I'm gonna show you a tool that the blade companies probably don't want
you to know about let's check it out we got a cool one here from Chicago
electric power tools. I picked this up at the Harbor Freight Ran me about $59 so if this
works correctly I might be able to pay this machine off within two blade
sharpenings. now the model number on this is 96687 again picked
it up at the Harbor Freight for around $59 you can also find these on Amazon
it's a different name but basically the exact same tool it's a little bit more
expensive at around 60 bucks I'll put links in the description for both of
those but all-in-all this thing is actually built a little bit better than
I thought it would be. everything on here is basically metal other than some of
the plastic casing really simple to put together there is a little bit of a
learning curve which I'll show you we're gonna take some old blades alright and
we're gonna sharpen these now we can go up to 15 and a half inches on this tool
sharpener right here now everything else is metal on this you get a nice little
clip right here I'll show you that that's a little wonky but it does work
okay got a handle this handle is actually supposed to go over this way
but because I'm right-handed and I sit over this way
I go like this and not a big deal again everything else to base all metal you
can even bolt these down to a table if you want you're going to get some caps
here you're gonna get some springs you're gonna get some wrenches you're
also going to get not only the diamond blade to sharpen the wheels you're going
to get another wheel here these are good for 4-inch Emery blades now when I first
want to turn this on I figured it was going to be loud obnoxious noisy check
this out that is all the louder it gets extremely
quiet so here's what we're gonna do we are going to set this up we're going to
sharpen the blade and see how it comes out now two blades I'm really excited
about sharpening is one from the D wall table saw that I've been using non-stop
and one from my older 12-inch rigid miter saw I'm not trying to say I'm
cheap but I'm cheap and I have not used this you can see the dust buildup for
quite some time just because I did not want to buy
another freakin bleh now this is 60 tooth and it is older we'll cut
something here and then we will sharpen it and cut something else so I'm
actually excited about seeing how this actually works out all right let's take
a look and see how this thing actually works pretty simple once you fine-tune
it it's not bad but you have an arm here his left right and out swivels this is
where your blades going to go and over here is your clip this is where it
actually will sit inside of your blades here and it will catch and when you go
like the nail shape then over here this is basically your adjustment so it's
going to allow your blade go on there like so and it'll keep it up so it
doesn't start dipping like this I'll show you how to set that up then you
have your handle over here which if you pull this forward towards you and then
backwards that'll actually move the blade so that's pretty nice so what
we're gonna do is we're going to put the DeWalt blade on first this thing is a
freaking nightmare now because this is basically just dull and I've been doing
a lot of ripping a lot of cutting with this we're gonna put it on I'm gonna
show you how this sets up and we will go from there
all right so what we're gonna do is we're gonna put our blade on you can see
there's nothing there and we want the teeth to face it that way because this
is where it's gonna catch right in the notches so now you get this cone-shaped
piece that's going to sit down right inside the blade hole now you got to put
your spring on this comes with this so you put that spring on like that and
then you have a washer you're gonna put down a right like so and this piece
right here we're just gonna tighten it down tightening up get me honest with
you this is a heavier duty plastic feels really good I was kind of shocked about
that but it's not bad we're gonna tighten it down to the point that this
doesn't move like this at the same time you don't want to crank it to the point
that you can't turn that blade you're gonna have to turn it manually so just
make that snug and that should be good so that is your
first step so here comes the second step this is blue shooting I see this move
around like so what we gonna do is line that blade up like so right on that
diamond cutting look once you get that where that place is flush just like that
we're gonna tighten that down you can see that we have our post here this is
resting up top this is adjust up and down as well but now that we found our
area just like so we're gonna tighten that bolt down this will let you know
you can also loosen this here just by turning it and you can slide this so
basically everything is adjustable and you can actually bevel this a little bit
so that is also pretty cool and just a quick tip you want to make sure that
when you go to a justice that your blade is all the way in you don't want to do
it out there tighten it down and find out you're gonna cut into your blade so
we're all the way in right now
all right so now what this should do is actually prevent it from again coming
this way we're going to move that blade back because that's what we got to do
and go like this and that'll actually lock in there like so and now we should
be able to get that cut should be just lined up just like that
now when that will is turning it won't be sticking like that but let's go this
way again let me go there that should work perfectly all right let's try it
now all we got to do is turn this on and hopefully you can sharpen this up I
shouldn't put this on the left-hand side camera angle
all right so you can see the first one went and stood up so you guys can see
this and I'm Sal
I missed
so what should happen is I should be able to turn this and it should
automatically adjust to where I need it sometimes I want to get too far so you
have to be careful with this you can see that blade is a little bit too much so
we shut this up and we try to readjust here that blade you can see it's a
little bit wonky when you try to set it up what will happen is I'm gonna come
over and cut it right there now so that's a little bit irritating so let me
try to readjust alright so basically all I did was just loosen that up brought it
back over tighten it back down and then readjusted this why bring it up a little
bit let's try it again
that's where it gets a little irritating now this way I actually go on the nice
white a tooth that would be separately
and what I'm doing actually is just moving this over and then letting the
force of the blade move ice up once I bring this blade
you can see how I slid in
be careful equals as files again
was very frustrating sometimes
that was the first one little sharp in there
so now what we got to do is take this off and I can tell you right now just
from feeling this compared to where it was night and freakin day and this is a
10-inch blade again it will sharpen up to 14 inch blades 12 inches the biggest
I got yeah all right so let me zoom in and see if you can see these here I'm
not sure how well that's picking it up but you can definitely see some shine
right there and they are much much sharper than what they were before so
let's do the rigid blade real quick so a couple reasons again why I stopped using
saw one was it's a freaking heavy man and number two it's beast of a saw
though number two well I didn't buy another blade because I'm cheap so let's
try this here with the blade just how it was you can see it's rusty under there
you got a little bit of sharpness but you can fill the larmor actually dog so
let's check it out
gone bad through the wood finish that up
so you can see there's some burning right there on the wood just because
let's play time Tanya it's been used a lot
definitely got put some force down on that so let's see what it does after we
sharpen it holy crap pulling it out was freakin
tight on her all right so let's move this over here just like we did last
time all we got to do now is put our little cone shape call it right there
and we're gonna put our spring on we're gonna put our washer on and we're gonna
put our tightening knob down not too tight yet we gotta bring this
over here put it up on our leveler tighten this down a little bit more and
once we do that we're fine now we can adjust this blade right up to the wheel
it's stuff and I don't think that's going anywhere good enough got some nice
movement there all right all right just like we did last time or go at justice
blade so it goes up smooth make sure it's is all the way in by the way looks
like we're good right there so now we got to tighten this down to make sure it
doesn't blow on us now I'm actually thinking that this is going to work
better see how that went down in the notch right there
it actually works better when you're up against the teeth for some reason and
there's slots so let's turn her on and see what it does and I'll pull this back
real quick
make sure that were lined up
you can see how that went back a little bit so we're actually gonna have to let
justice
all right so we went back to the miter saw with the sharpened blade same two by
six we're gonna see if it takes as much force to bring it down this was not the
dullest blade that d won't blade it was very dull and I actually tried that put
that back on and it rips like nothing right now so I'm really happy with that
but let's see if it takes as much force to bring this way down through
that's real nice no freaking freaking burn marks on this so that's good
actually use this mitre psyching Oh No that up that's pretty well it's a nice
smooth cut you know is it as good as a brand new blade I'll say yeah I haven't
used it as much as I I should they give that comparison but I will tell you it
actually does cut very smooth really nice you know I moved out to the country
because the city was too noisy and I got more freaking dogs barking and more
people talking and more lawn mowers and weed whackers I gotta move back to the
city I think I just got to go back to the
city drive crazy how many times can you cut your grass in one day anyway so
here's the deal people if you have never swore cuss in your life you're probably
going to if you get this just because there's a learning curve to it once you
get the hang of it though I will tell you it's probably not gonna bring your
blades back to the condition of new but it will definitely sharpen them and you
will definitely save money with this tool now again I don't have anything to
do with Harbor Freight I really could care less about them but when you find a
cool tool it's a cool tool you know and I wanted to ring it to you I think I
think there's some things that could be improved but for the price and the money
you're going to say I don't think I got dog shut up I don't think you can beat
it you know I really don't you know I got a bunch of different blades here
that I sharpened the Milwaukee blade all the way up to 12 inch all the way down
to seven and a quarter and this right here this was another dull blade that
was just ripping the wood up and it actually sharpened this up to the point
that it cuts really really nice again so listen 59 bucks check it out I mean it
is not bad at all very quiet as far as bill goes it's okay you know it's not
bad it's just a $59 tool but what's cool about this is that if your diamond will
gets a little worn down you can just flip it over
now or you can go out and buy another one and it also comes with the emery
blade so that's cool as well so yeah I hope you liked this video I hope it
helps you I hope it's another cool tool that maybe
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