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Awesome test!!And thanks for the feedback on the battery looseness/play.
Drilled lots holes yesterday. I had a lot of cut out, because of so much ice building on my auger. Drill few holes set it down, drill few more, over the course of hours on ice, the ice kept building up on the auger. Had to take it in shanty the thaw the head off lol then drill wouldn't cut out. To me its little annoying, but not enough to take it back. Because my other augers would ice up too.
after you get done drilling run the drill/auger in the air to fling water off the blades.ice cant form with no water on the blades.it works pretty good and i have to do that with my gas augers too.
Well, I've spent most of the week doing a rematch between the Ridgid and the DeWalt. The Ridgid showed up to battle this time. &feature=youtu.be
I actually felt sorry for the guy that showed up yesterday with an old 8" Jiffy, and took ~1:30 to cut holes... (Yeah, really. A minute and 30 seconds. After his 3rd of 6 holes, we started timing him. )
Cut 30 or so holes in 6-8" of ice today. Battery was 70% when I got inside. I do notice the chuck has a fair amt of play in it.
One of the tool review channels on YouTube had a chuck issue. If yours keeps getting loose it may have the same thing. Their replacement was fine.
I got a clip of the same thing. My buddy was drilling, I came into the frame, kicked out some snow, drilled with my octane, cleared the hole before he finished his.
So I made myself a home made ice master auger adapter, I thought about just buying one but after what my new Octane did to my aluminum adapter seen in the picture, I wasn't sure if it was steel or aluminum, so I purchased a stainless steel one, pic 2 from Vendetta Precision EBAY. went to home depot and purchased a IPS Pipe Escutcheon 1 inch, Did have to take my Dremell and widen the hole a little to spin freely , a couple eye bolts and a piece of paracord .I did have to remove the wing nut and use a stronger grade bolt , one that wont hit the eyebolts as it spins.
Boy, I don't know... I'm usually all about paracord, but if that piece somehow gets caught while drilling, it would probably rip off the T-handle, and could become a whirling rope of dismemberment with the eye bolts attached on each end.