by bgsengine » Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:31 am
ahh those good ol' "Hard Chains" .. actually they been basically heat treated from being abused (you ever "smoked" a saw chain trying to cut hard wood on a dull chain? - That... ) , without getting tempered (eases the brittleness which allows it to be filed.. brittle stuff won't file easy) , is what usually happens.. sooner or later they catch something and one or more cutters break off.. typically I would advise the owner that A) I won't sharpen the chain because it's been trashed, and B) they'd be better off getting a new chain instead.. about 25% of the time, they get the new chain, 70% of the time they took the chain home to try and sharpen themselves (and about a third came back in a week for a new chain) , and the other 5% got totally PO'ed , said I was fulla sh**, trying to rip them off, and never came back again... (they never bought anything else either anyway - they came to me because I was the cheapest chain sharpening and cheapest chain loops in the area.. so I didn't miss them one little bit... )
How poor are they who have not patience. What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? - Iago (Othello Act II, Scene 3)