seen a fellow member with a broken fin on his kdrill flight. posted it last year in augers section.
also you can only sharpen a blade so many times. they can take too much off and force your hand to buy new.
no free blades, last i knew. some people have been getting the bit stuck in the hole and getting hurt. so far wrist injuries.
i recently watched a video of an 8 inch more and the 8 inch (which is only 7.5 inch) compete using the same fuel drill and 5 amp battery. the mora made nearly twice as many holes as the kdrill. that was all i needed to see to know i didn't want one. so i just bought another strikemaster lazer in the 8 inch size. so now i have it in 4, 5 and 8 inch. got the auger for 75.
i used my 6 inch lazer to open tons of old holes because they were not as deep of ice so it saved making new holes. it did finally catch up with it and made one blade out of alignment. took about 6 years.
when you start buying the kdrill to go on a plate to try to stay safer with it, the added cost get out of hand. you have to buy the plate, plate to kdrill adapter, extension, spare blades for when you send your dull ones out for resharp and the auger. i was looking into the costs until i saw the mora vs kdrill video.
https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=349684.0the eskimo pistol is claimed to be the lightest auger on the market. so you have that as an option if your looking to go light weight. i had the pistol and kdrill in my hands in their box at the store. seemed like the pistol was lighter.
