Thank you putting out some of the best content on RUclips.I when to my local Stihl dealer with the stock number for there progressive raker gauge….Nope they don’t stock them in North America🙄…so long story short I got one from Westcoast saw ….works great
Not set in my ways with hand file . Its just im back in the woods and my hand file has to be done and sharpen or walk a mile back to the truck to change chain.
Bukin Billy Ray that filled back to the limit mark all the teeth on one side of the chain, the other side was like new, he used a progressive depth gauge and the chain cut straight as a die.
@harry8506 the Husqvarna ones work good the Stihl ones are more aggressive with an attack angle of say 5.5° and maintain that angle to the end of the witness mark
On soft setting the raker depth will be .15 mm lower than hard setting. A new 3/8 standard chain shows .65mm brand new at end of life on hard setting it will be 1.2mm lower on soft setting it will be 1.35mm max depth. I have measured this many times. If you have a powerful saw I then use soft settings. Say 72cc for a 20 inch bar full chisel. While you can get some very small variation to these values they are pretty spot on. Hope that helps
Why is this such a dark science. Our D and B saw shop told me that they do not file rakers when filing a chain. I think it's a lawyer thing. An aggressive chain is more dangerous?
I dont like that you need a different gauge for each size chain with progressive gauges, but thats a minor annoyance. I wonder how far off one would be if they used the incorrect progressive gauge to set depth?
Thank you putting out some of the best content on RUclips.I when to my local Stihl dealer with the stock number for there progressive raker gauge….Nope they don’t stock them in North America🙄…so long story short I got one from Westcoast saw ….works great
Thank you for providing some of the most detailed information available!
Yeah, they think like that.(money). Buckin Billy Ray uses progressive gauge. Maybe Oregon and Stihl will come around, maybe.
Keep the great videos coming
Thanks
Not set in my ways with hand file . Its just im back in the woods and my hand file has to be done and sharpen or walk a mile back to the truck to change chain.
Yes understand that
Bukin Billy Ray that filled back to the limit mark all the teeth on one side of the chain, the other side was like new, he used a progressive depth gauge and the chain cut straight as a die.
Yes I only use a stihl progressive gauge to set the rakers
@@ChainsawUsers I have the Husqvarna ones, I will have to try the Stihl version, I only just learned from you they made one..
@harry8506 the Husqvarna ones work good the Stihl ones are more aggressive with an attack angle of say 5.5° and maintain that angle to the end of the witness mark
What is the depth differences between hard and soft depth? For the slanted-progressive guage
On soft setting the raker depth will be .15 mm lower than hard setting. A new 3/8 standard chain shows .65mm brand new at end of life on hard setting it will be 1.2mm lower on soft setting it will be 1.35mm max depth. I have measured this many times. If you have a powerful saw I then use soft settings. Say 72cc for a 20 inch bar full chisel. While you can get some very small variation to these values they are pretty spot on. Hope that helps
About .1 of a mm
Why is this such a dark science. Our D and B saw shop told me that they do not file rakers when filing a chain. I think it's a lawyer thing. An aggressive chain is more dangerous?
I dont like that you need a different gauge for each size chain with progressive gauges, but thats a minor annoyance. I wonder how far off one would be if they used the incorrect progressive gauge to set depth?
@Maciej_Jan_Dlugosz it's not the expense. It's having more stuff in my already cluttered workbench. 😁
@@hosocat1410supposed to be wearing it on your suspenders! 😂
sensitivity?......lol