SUKI wrote:Well I getting use to using this grinder and finding a lot faster once I got use to making settings. I only problem was finding .030 gauge tool but AVB ordered the minimum from Oregon which was 10 of of them. They are a lot easier to use instead that little plastic gauge Oregon provided with the grinder. Sure makes doing chains a lot easier when you got the right tools. I did find it strange that even the local Stihl dealer didn't have a 0.030 tool.
The thing that is a little bit of a pain is having change out the grinding wheels. I might get a couple more units just so I don't have to change discs but that is a lot further down the road.
If you have not thrown it out yet, set up the HP plastic fantastic to do nothing but the rakers
THis saves a lot of messing around changing wheels
And be careful changing wheels as it is easy to hold them slightly off centre the when you tighten the retainer you chip the mounting hole and the wheel becomes toast .
I have 2 grinders and have done this makes doing chains so much easier.
As I mostly do domestic chains they all get ground the same because it is easier for me and most of the blades come back rounded because they don't know the difference between a chain saw and a Ditch Witch .
Just this week I took advice from another forum and counter ground the raking wheel with an old worn out .325 wheel so it grinds the rakers round as they were originally .
Looks so much better than the flat angled cut but the grinder still needs to touch the raker at an angle to prevent shuddering
Finally lightness is the way to go
I some times run a chain through 3 to 8 times before all of the cutters are the same length