If not why not
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I can certainly free hand file well enough to touch up a chain on the bar in the woods. If it gets damaged or needs angles reset after a while then it comes off, to be filed on the vive or fixed on the grinder. I can free hand file very accurately on the chain vice with the angle references marked - more accurately than my cheap grinder by far.I've one I've used since the late seventies. Still works great. With a little conscious thought the first few times you use it, it gets to be almost a no-brainer. Set the clamp on the cutter at the right ht, with the bar clamp at a good ht, then tighten the main clamp TIGHT.
Mark the first tooth with a marker pen as necessary. Stroke per tooth one side, then the other. Done. Forget setting the adjustable stop- that's only useful for doing depth gauges. Even-length teeth are over-rated.
Lots assume they can precisely free-hand-file. Yeah, and I can wali on water. Long as it's shallow.
I can certainly free hand file well enough to touch up a chain on the bar in the woods. If it gets damaged or needs angles reset after a while then it comes off, to be filed on the vive or fixed on the grinder. I can free hand file very accurately on the chain vice with the angle references marked - more accurately than my cheap grinder by far.
We all have different skills, but accurately free-hand filing is not really that big a deal for some. I can see and hold relative angles very well if I have good light. So maybe it's 32 vs. 30 degrees, but that doesn't matter at all as long as they are consistent. Given a cutter with a witness mark it is even easier.
@Philbert:Looking around I found that Oregon makes a 12 volt companion model to the 115 volt model you pictured.
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