Chainsaw Repair

Those bar clamps are $27.95 each



But you could just use a common bench vice

Handy tool, and great video

ChainMeister as the video showed in the field would be more efficient if the powerhead was still on the b/c and just the 2 upright clamps mounted on the board held the whole saw.
Now in the work shop the setup would work fine sharpening multiple chains but without the board and 2 upright clamps and just the b/c and tensioner  clamped in a bench vise.

In the vise is how I would use something like that too.

Slick setup though,  the inventor put alot of thought into and did a nice job building it.
Was the inventor Jim Smith AKA "Tree Machine"?
I think I remember all the discussion of it years back on Tree World. Speaking of TW what ever happened to Ekka?

His site went down the tubes. Heck he got way worse then AS was in his gestapo ways.  He read PM's too just like AS did.

Also on the cheinmester thing. Guy brought up you have to unclamp both clamps from bar to switch chains. I didnt catch that.

The Chainmeister clamps are the ones I showed in Post#17 in this thread; they are very well made. My 'home made' versions are in Post#18; fun to make, and they work too. 

TreeMachine intended the clamps to be mounted to a truck or bench, but I mounted them to a small board so that I could clamp them to any surface, including a picnic table, trailer bed, tailgate, etc.  Anywhere where a regular stump vise would not be convenient.  I also attached a small, pivoting, wooden cleat to the bottom of one board, so that the clamp can be held in my woodworking vise, which is flush with the workbench, as opposed to a mechanic's vise, which is mounted on the surface.  That works well, with the powerhead supported by the bench, instead of being up in the air.

I also modified one of the Chainmeister clamps: cutting off the base and having a 3/4" threaded rod welded on.  This one drops through a hole in a trailer bed, work table, etc.: anywhere that the vise might be used periodically, but not permanently.  It is clamped by a large wing nut from below, holds rock solid, and eliminates the use of clamps, which some people did not like.

Philbert