Ok, went to teeth a couple plates this weekend. Stamped the first one at 13 ppi for a xcut saw, the rake was about 10-12 degrees. Then adjusted to what I thought would give me a higher rake, and stamped a 14 ppi plate for a rip saw. Comes out almost exactly the same rake as it had been before, after adjusting it... I have said it before and I will say it again...Foley equipment is crap.
I hear what your saying but I also know you've worked with this stuff longer then I and after using it 2 times I knew I'd have to run a test EVERY time I make any adjustment. This past weekend I picked up the later stye retoother like yours. VERY COOL!!!! I haven't had the chance to check it over but I mostly bought it for the ratchet bars. It has a FULL set with the hard to come by 14,15,16, pls the others. I now have 3 complete sets so I'm going to hopefully fine a home for at least one of them. Got to be someone in the NE will be interested. Joe
Yeah, I tell people that also...but it never feels good getting bit again... Good time to quit, now that you got your set. Sell what you can and be done with it, keep the retoothers and ratchets. Funny, I have a 387 filer, and a guy not far from me had one on Ebay for ***ONLY*** $400 starting bid. I sent him a message on ebay and asked if he had the ratchets. No, but a guy offered him close to $400 so he knows it's worth it...he just lowered it to $299...I told him he could have mine for free, just drive 20 minutes and pick it up...what a bunch of jerks these guys are....if there's so much money in this crap, why not get mine as well ???? lol
I know what you mean. With each of the retoothers. I've bought filers Ive been lucky in selling them for something, but the best I've gotten is 100.00 and I didn't give them one bar, no ratchets and I think I may have also thrown in a power setter. God knows what I would do with that either. Mine were the older 200 model. This last unit I bought to get the ratchets came with a filer, and a power setter. The power setter looks to be used for round blades but it's a much later model then the rest of the foley stuff. I'll take pictures this weekend and put it up on CL. The retoothers I'll most likely sell/trade at a tail gate at the next tool auction. Joe
stanger carrier Alan, Since you know a bunch about these old units. . . what can you tell me about this carrier? It's not in the retoother or filler manuals I have. Is it for toothing smaller pieces saw plate? I picked it up with the last retoother I got, per the norm. The guy I picked it up from had never used it, just picked it up at an auction. Joe