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The clam plate is a necessity with the 8"!! Alternative is a sprained wrist or worse!Dick
With no clamplate place battery along right leg . Fallow it down against your leg as you drill down . If the drill catches it will twist into and stop against your leg and won't hurt your wrist . You just have to be smarter then a drill .
..... like we used to do with our ol' side handle jiffy back in the day. those things were dangerous!
I had one of those old side-handle Jiffy's. On a good day they didn't carry well and you'd burn a hole in the front of your coat or sleeve on the hot muffler. On a bad day you'd twist your wrist real bad and after enough of that you'd fish with only four traps that day. Don't miss that relic at all.These new augers are real nice..
No problems here with the M18 and 8" NILs. No Clam Plate. i wouldn't waste the money. Use the side handle that comes with the M18. Maybe the K-Drill is harder turning than the NILs. Get your muscles out.
I wouldn’t trust the side handle. When mine got stuck, I was using the side handle and the part of the metal housing on the drill where the side handle clamps onto cracked and the handle tore off. Torque on the drill is stronger than the handle can take.
With those adapters does anybody have the the auger wobble a lot? My 8 inch auger makes a 12 inch hole with it, this is the second one after the first one did the same thing.