Well yeah if he had to pay for it I agree .Fact I have some that got so worn that even after dessing them with a belt sander only has one side fit to cut with.To me it's usable but probabley not for someone who uses a saw to make a living with .
I could get it straight most likely .
I can't ever remember bending a bar .Which is not to say I haven't hung a saw before .Fact I once had two hung in the same tree and needed a third to retrieve the other two .
I took the curl out of a mini 12 incher with a.042 slot I found in the bottom of one of Toms truck boxes .It came on an 020T originally .How in the world they ever managed to curl a trim saw bar is beyond me .I had to put that one in a 12 inch Wilton vise and use a 36" pipe wrench .
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The bar can be straightened .Use a big vise and a straight edge .I've unbent some dandies from people using the danged bar for a crowbar.Some were so bent I had to take them to work and use an arbor press .
It's proven fact that people tend to have a tendency of filing one side heavy if doing one side then the other .One option is to flip the saw over if using that method .It's a trait you have to really work on to over come .
There's a zillon methods ,a person just needs to find what works best...
You only really need to file the rakers a couple times the whole usable life of the chain .I noticed the top plate of the cutters had kind of a roundish look on one side .
To get it to cut good it has to have the top plate and the side plate meet at a junction of the tooth called the "working...
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