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What is really stupid is that you can buy a "Canadian made" Strikemaster Lazerin Canada that comes with an offset handle but you cant get one in the good ole 'USA.Why would a company manufacture a superior version of its signature product and limit its sales to certain countries?complete rediculousness!
Conduit is to light and besides it would crush where the wing bolt goes threw as it pinches the handle to one side of the lower part of the auger. I suppose you could drive some round uhmw into the part where the wing bolt goes threw so it wouldn't crush. also getting the bends would be some what difficult to get right for a first timer using a bender. I looked at all those options and found it easiest to adapt a nils handle and it works fantastic
has to do with paten laws like patented paten pending etc... brother is going back to college to be a paten lawyer he is already bared her in Michigan and practicing. any how Canada is different then the usa and china and every other county that is why some on in this county already own the paten on the handle is more then likely the problem like ht augers see the problem....that why they sell the offset polar fire auger...if they wanted to they could pay royalty's on using it but probably won't...
Rigid conduit is stronger than the handle that came with my Lazer, it's pretty stout stuff.
I don't believe that it's patented because Strikemaster sold them as a optional item years ago. I bought one from their Strikemaster store. A patent is good for 17 years and that offset handle has been available longer than that. It is strictly a money issue. The straight handle is cheaper to manufacture.
I see i must have been thinking of the regular stuff I dont believe its that what i think it is if you make a hand auger the best you can that drills easy and fast you wont sell as many power augers.
I doubt that. I would think it comes down to the mold or jig they use to make them. There is probably one manufacture that makes all the hand augers in the U.S. That manufacturer prya doesnt have offset mold or jig, so when asked about the offset handle the quote is prya crazy high.
Made 3 of them (Image removed from quote.)
I suspect the reason we don't get the Mora Ice of Sweden brand ice augers like in Europe here in the US is all because of Strikemaster. Strikemaster gets augers and parts from Mora and they know their sales would go in the crapper if the superior Mora designed augers become available here in the states.
Will the new telescopic fin bore handle fit the strikemaster,moras and Eskimos?