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Chevytown, it's good to see that you're doing some chain work. The file o plate looks to be a good tool, but it appears that there is no adjustment, you can only do what the plate tells you. Here's how i set depth guages, with a piece of glass and feeler guages. This way you can pick if want your rakers set at .020, .025, .030, whatever works best...........you want the glass to cover at least 3 cutters......
I thought that the whole point of the File-O-Plate is that it gives an angle to set the rakers at instead of a depth, that way the angles kept the same as the cutter is filed back which means that setting for the raker gets more as the cutter is filed back.
Do you change to a thicker feeler gauge as you file the cutter further back to maintain that angle?