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Make sure your drill is not in reverse.
but the drill in your tool box and buy a good power auger
Nills is junk auger. Bought a brand new one ruined head sent to get sharpened couldn't fix not buying a new head put it to the curb for scrap guy. Cheap Mora for life.
Needs to be sharpened, time to send it to Frank.
try using it by hand and see if it works that way
Did you gentally set it on the ice or slam it down. Could have bent the blade. I use a dewalt 20 v. On the lowest setting. Make sure you are straight up and down. It will dance if you don't. Check for burr on the the blade. Make sure the chuck is properly placed on the auger head. Pm me a pic of the blades and the drill attachment if you can't figure it out. You did leave the blade guard on did you. Just kidding.
This is the thing with nills instead of just buying blades for 30 bucks you have to troubleshoot the thing. Seems like a pain for a large drill bit. Or buy a new head for 100 bucks. No thanks.
That's fine if that's what you prefer.But why come here to simply say how the original poster's choice of auger sucks? You're not helping OP's cause at all. Plus, you're wrong.
What type of drill are you using? I bought a Ryobi and it didn't work on my 8". It didn't skip, but it stalled. Perhaps your drill doesn't have enough booty to initially bite into the ice. I use the Milwaukee now.
Because I had one and went through the same crap.
Yep great auger keep trouble shooting so you can drill a hole in the ice. Also what if this happens when you go fishing. At least with a cheap mora the bait shop has replacement blades so I can fish and not have to try a hundred things to get it to work.