I bought the files at Home Depot, 2 to a card. I make the power stroke and then lift off the tooth for the return. I have a small wire brush that I dust out the remnants every half dozen teeth. You can run your fingers down a worn one and a new one and feel the difference and see it also.
I originally read up on the cutting angle of 25 to 35* and results of each. My OEM chain groove is 30 and there is enough of it to give me a guide for eyeballing the cut. Lot easier for me than using an angle tool that HD also sold me along with my depth gauge and the mickey mouse flat file that was in that.
Since they had a lot of files hanging on the rack, I just figured that they wore out fairly rapidly.
While there I also bought some stones that just happen to fit my Dremel too. I tried that initially and found that I overheated several teeth and changed their temper whereby they are hard as tungsten (guess).
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