That's a lot of messing around to file every trailing edge. As I mentioned earlier mine all smoothed right out after the first sharpening.
No the vertical rear edge of the cutter in the photo ( on the right in the photo ) should be filed so the top outer face is slighty shorter than the lower face an angle of approx 45degs( but parallel to the back edge ) similar to counter sinking the cutter trailing edge in effect shortening the outer surface of the cutter What it is doing in effect is shortening the cutter slightly in overall length as the filed bit is not touching the woodIs this what you mean? Picture borrowed from member MCW on another thread.
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Maybe but your drawing kicked my drawings ass!I see I was a little late.
Dsell & Ravental Yep that is correct. Smokey I am only passing on the info given to us by the Blount area rep, we tried it ( a bind filing all the cutters ) but on that particular chain it worked, it was supposedly a stop gap mod until they sorted it, which they seem not to have done, & as we started using Windsor chain I have not had any dealings with VXL for some time until my neighbors 'jobby' a week or so ago to still find the same problem.I can't for the life of me see why that would make any difference in how the chain behaves. I'm my eyes that piece of the cutter would never touch the wood in any meaningful way. Please explain the function of the rear portion of the cutter and how that changes anything.
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