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Garden Shears
Can someone advise me on the best way to sharpen shears please?
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from "Colin Jacobs" contains these words: Can someone advise me on the best way to sharpen shears please? How handy are you? If you feel you are up to drawfiling, with the cutting-edge upwards, put one blade of the shears horizontally in a vice, and with a fine file (preferably a 'first-cut' one) hold it by either end and incline it to match the angle of the edge, draw it along the blade until the inside edge is sharp. The angle should be somewhere around 5° to 10° from the horizontal, the higher side of the file towards the cutting edge. Repeat with the other blade. Do *NOT* try to file the faces between the blades. The nut should be tight enough to keep the blades together when the shears are fully open. The blades of good shears are usually slightly bowed towards each-other. Usually, to tighten them you use a spanner, then hammer the end of the thread so that the nut can't loosen, though some have a locknut or a screw-down device which holds the nut where you want it. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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Thanks I am a model engineer but give me something large like this I fall to
pieces Thanks for the tips, CJ "Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message k... The message from "Colin Jacobs" contains these words: Can someone advise me on the best way to sharpen shears please? How handy are you? If you feel you are up to drawfiling, with the cutting-edge upwards, put one blade of the shears horizontally in a vice, and with a fine file (preferably a 'first-cut' one) hold it by either end and incline it to match the angle of the edge, draw it along the blade until the inside edge is sharp. The angle should be somewhere around 5° to 10° from the horizontal, the higher side of the file towards the cutting edge. Repeat with the other blade. Do *NOT* try to file the faces between the blades. The nut should be tight enough to keep the blades together when the shears are fully open. The blades of good shears are usually slightly bowed towards each-other. Usually, to tighten them you use a spanner, then hammer the end of the thread so that the nut can't loosen, though some have a locknut or a screw-down device which holds the nut where you want it. -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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