Not everyone knows how to quickly and easily sharpen a hacksaw with a file.
Hello everyone! Finally, the long-awaited spring has come and many of us decided to go to our summer cottages. Someone just wants to relax and enjoy the beauty of nature, while someone came to work and put things in order. As you know, one of the most basic tools for working in the country is an ordinary wood saw.
On the first sunny days, I also took out my old hacksaw to saw off a couple of dry knots on the pear, but after several movements I realized that it was very blunt.
This is not surprising, because last fall, my saw saw a lot of nails.
I sawed very hard and some of the teeth even broke off.
In today's article, I I want to share with you one way with which you can sharpen a hacksaw very quickly. This method is one of the simplest and I have used it not for the first time.
To sharpen a hacksaw, we need a triangular file and a couple of planks or pieces of plywood (as long as a hacksaw).
We insert the boards into a vice, insert the hacksaw itself between them (so that the teeth stick out above the boards) and clamp the vice.
To better secure the saw, you can additionally clamp its edge with a clamp. The hacksaw will not dangle and will not need to be rearranged. If you do not have a vice and clamps, you can fix the hacksaw between two bars or planks by screwing them to the table with screws.
Many people believe that it is necessary to sharpen a hacksaw correctly only with forward movements, attaching a file to the edge of one tooth. I believe that this method takes a very long time and in terms of quality it is no better than the method that I will now share with you.
We install the file at a slight angle between two teeth so that it comes into contact with two teeth at once.
And we begin to sharpen with movements forward and backward. Thus, two teeth will be sharpened at once. We sharpen through one tooth, then change direction and sharpen the other side, also through one tooth. In time, everything will take no more than 10 minutes (with a normal sharpening, I spent a lot more time).
Some teeth after such sharpening may have an irregular shape, but as I said earlier, this does not affect the quality of sharpening. I use this saw for a rough cut, so it is not important for me to get a regular triangular tooth. The most important thing is that the hacksaw saws, and believe me after sharpening in this way, it saws remarkably.