Sealey Sms2003 Saw Blade Sharpener - Bench Mounting 110W

I bought this sharpener in spite of a few iffy reviews…I’m very glad I did…I love it. I have already sharpened enough blades to pay for the sharpener. Some reviews mentioned that it’s not a precision tool. I’m sure there are more precise sharpeners, but they cost two or three times as much. I don’t use the stops that come with the tool as I found it easier to simply use my eyes and hands to judge the cuts on each tooth. It worked an absolute charm. Each saw blade is sharper than when I bought them. I couldn’t be more pleased. If you’re good around hand tools at all, you will find this sharpener easy to use and very effective.

Great product and saving me money already on the blades i have sharpened, check YouTube for some clues how best to use this to get the best out of it

OK. Why spend £72 and expect a machine quality in the category of £300 plus ?This little sharpener requires adaptibility. It also requires someone who is willing to give it a chance and adjust on the possibly sloppy factory assembly of parts before operating.Advice. unbolt and get rid of the tensioner boom and sprung arm. It interferes with the job.Mount the machine on a workmate for more flexibility and clamp into position. UNPLUG the machine.Turn the workmate round so you can point a good spotlight into the place where saw tooth and diamond disc will meet.Fasten the blade onto the appropriate place. I tightened the knurled hand nut right down against the spring, making sure that it was all level and equally spaced.Swing the saw blade and adjust it so that when the machine body handle is raised in order to pull the diamond disc into position, the diamond disc jutts into the space between the teeth but will not hit the bottom of the gap and cut into the saw blade.Be sure to loosen the grubscrew on the supporting pillar and ease the pillar up so it rests against the underside of the saw blade.It's not rocket science.Now turn the saw blade and adjust the arm on its pivot until the tooth angle is correct when resting on the side of the disc. Get this exactly right. The spotlight helps a lot.Tighten the blade holder pivot arm nuts etc. so it is firm and will not 'wander' . Time spent on this is not wasted. Re- check how the blade and disc will contact. Your cutting efficiency and blade life epend upon this.Goggles and gloves, pull the grinding shield down to horizontal, and start up.Pull the machine handle up so the disc is rotating within the saw gap, gently rotate the saw blade clockwise until the front face of the tooth is ground and no signs of old surface left.A few seconds is enough - pull back the machine handle and check - if there's still an old dirty surface left on the face of the TCT tooth - grind a little bit more. Check again and mark the tooth with a felt-tip pen.Turn your saw blade so the next gap is centred with the retracted diamond disc, pull up the machine handle and repeat the process.Why bother at all ? For me it's over 90 miles to the other side of the country where the expensive tool stores live. On a website,often £18 in postage charged by some firms because of our postcode - so a £14 cheap blade is a bit of a joke.This machine is not high-tech and will not adjust various ground edges on the tooth sides, but it will sharpen your blades and keep you working instead of biting your nails.'Wish it was £50 though.

Value for money it is probably the best I have seen on the market.I note with interest the reviews I read prior to purchasing the machine. Many commented about the lack of refinement. It would not have been difficult to modified the design to include fine adjustment using threaded bolts. This would greatly enhance the operation and performance of the device.It is evident from reading the reviews that those people with technical and practical knowledge are able to adapt the machine using their expertise to improve the machine operation.Hence the reason I gave the machine three stars.

Great value and a massive money saver

Its a cheap product and therefore needs a lot of work to get it working half right. The various fixings apart from the cap screws appear to be made from jelly and rounded over on first use. the motor mount is not in linear bearings but guided by a pressure bar below the rails which to give nay accuracy need to be too tight to slide well. the blade support arm is not very stable. I have come up with a working method to sharpen blades negating most of the above that does not follow the instructions. With work it can be used but needs care and time.

Very good sharmener it's take time for fist set up then soon as you got set up then all you saws blades become better than brand new

He said he found it fiddly to set up but easy to use. Very happy with results.