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Elof Granberg started manufacturing this gem over 50 years ago, which is a testament to the design of this tool. It has been copied numerous times over the years, but most have yet to match the quality. This guide allows you to file your chain with professional accuracy, right on your bar. You can match the chain manufacturer's recommended angles perfectly with this device. It attaches to your guide bar in seconds and is made of metal precision guides and stop. Designed for round chainsaw files only. File not included.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great product, needs better documentation!,
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This review is from: Granberg File-N-Joint Precision Filing Guide
First, this File-N-Joint "IS" the Granberg G106-B that you may see listed separately. I purchased the File-N-Joint from Bailey's through Amazon and the model number G106-B is clearly indicated on the label affixed to the main body of the assembly. Before I complain about the documentation, let me say that this product does the trick. Once you understand how you should set it up on the saw bar and make adjustments for the specific chain, it becomes laughably easy, and does a great job! Well worth the money I spent.Documentation! Way too concise! The provided instructions amount to about four paragraphs, replicated in three languages, on flip sides of a single sheet of letter-sized paper. There are a few small photographs, but with minimal captions. To use this tool you first mount a round file of the correct size (for your chain) into the Granberg and tighten it into place with two thumb-screws. Pretty simple to do! Next you mount the assembly on the saw's bar, with the main body of the assembly parallel to the upper edge of the bar. To do this you position and tighten a small pair of jaws over the center of the rivets of the chain you are about to sharpen. You then make sure the Granberg's main assembly body is parallel to the upper edge of the bar, then you securely tighten a thumbwheel toward the nose-end of the saw bar. Then you back off on the jaws enough that the chain will slide through them. IMPORTANT! There is a vertical-axis leaf spring on the assembly that is a stop, and is there to hold each tooth of the chain in position for sharpening. In order to move the chain you must swing/pivot the arm holding the file upward adequately for the leaf spring to clear the teeth. Otherwise the leaf spring holds against a chain tooth and you might think you have the jaws set too tight! The documentation does not point this out. You must swing this arm up each time you advance the chain to the next tooth. Okay! Before you sharpen the first tooth you must set the angle of the file. 0^ (zero) on the adjustment scale is straight down the axis of the chainsaw's bar. The documentation I got clearly illustrates the mark at 0^ (zero) and the mark at 35^ (^ here indicates degrees) to either side of center, but the documentation makes no mention of the unlabeled marks that fall between 0^ and 35^. 35^ is the seventh mark to each side of 0, so I assume each mark is 5^. The teeth in the adjusting wheel are set to lock at those hash marks. I have a Stihl .325 chain to file at 30^, so I set for the 6th hash mark. The documentation is way weak! I am still trying to figure out the setting for filing the depth gauges of the chain. One problem I had is my only flat file is about 12" in length, which is too long to fit in the Granberg. You will need a 6" or so length flat file if you wish to mount it in the Granberg for this step. The same vertical adjustment wheel used for setting height for sharpening the teeth is used to set the flat file for filing the chain's depth gauges. When making the adjustment for sharpening the teeth you adjust visually so that about 25% of the file is above the opening of the chain's teeth. The documentation explains how from a 0 (zero) setting to adjust to the setting for the chain's depth gauges. What the documentation does not explain is once you have been sharpening the teeth, how to then reset the depth to 0 (zero) as a starting point for making that chain depth gauge adjustment. You can spin the vertical adjustment wheel multiple times, so how do you learn how to return it to a 0 (zero) setting? This is not explained. This tool is clearly a winner. The documentation is a loser! I still highly recommend this Granberg File-N-Joint (G106-B).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good in-the-woods sharpener,
This review is from: Granberg File-N-Joint Precision Filing Guide
to touch up a saw chain, where there are no outlets this is the ticket . . . the angle and depth settings let you keep your cutters uniform; but it won't touch a chain that has been into rocks and dirt and is completely dull.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great sharpener,
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This review is from: Granberg File-N-Joint Precision Filing Guide
I bought one of these about 12 years ago and have used it to sharpen hundreds of chains and it still works like new. Recently bought another as a xmas gift. It is very easy to set up and does a great job.
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