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Well turned in enough cans. Got the clam plate coming. Wobble wobble lolHoping it works out
the drill you use has nothing to do with the plate/shaft wobble. other than the plate doesn't fit the drill.i returned mine. didn't care for the phone call with clam and their attitude and calling us bashers while all we wanted was for them to make right on their product. i thought about trying more plates at stores until i found a straight one, but after thinking about and trying to get clam to step up and take care of it and they wouldn't just send a straight shaft, i decided enough was enough. to much effort and time for some thing not needed at all.i also didn't appreciate how they treated lefty at all. anyone who reached out to them got shot down on this subject.and then then the videos of their plate with their extension running perfectly straight as it should be and then lefty's and mine being a 2 inch wobble and them being ok with that. some thing is wrong with them. they are out of spec big time.after talking with frank who sharpens nils (sponsor) here and he explained he doesn't even need the aux handle to turn 8 inch nils helped me decide and all of the videos of folks not using one for their 8" made it easier to make the right choice. i am stepping up from a 6 to 8 inch auger and had concern's at first and bought the plate.it's just aggravation and money wasted and more bulk and weight and harder to protect the drill and battery sitting a drill on top of a plate. it is also not designed to work with drills that have pressure switches on the handle. then there is the trigger issue/mod they admitted to doing for themselves, but not for us was the icing on the cake. i took the time and effort to make the trigger decent. i took the parts off before boxing it back up to return it to dicks sports.been using ridgid brand tools for plenty of years to know how to use them and the aux handle design is the same as all of their gen4 and up.people are using the aux handle to fit opposite of the drill handle and liking it better than the 90 degree position. so it feels more like a power head auger set up.best of luck if you keep yours. watch out if your auger bit walks.
The shaft on your clam plate was not straight? Trying to understand where your wobble comes from. Mine spins freely but I have no extension. Sounds like everyones extensions are to blame for the most part. Did you happen to record your wobble? Wasnt the video that someone posted clearly showing the extension was bent?
didn't see a bent extension video. it wouldn't surprise me tho. i did see one with the extension run smooth as butter and i saw lefty's. mine was like lefty's as far as the extreme amount of wobble not like the one running smooth as butter with very little to no wobble.i do have videos of it, both with and with out the extension. i did it with no plate and was directly in the chuck and used several drills to rule out the drill having wobble.the shaft is bent and looks like it was done where they grind the flats for the chuck to hold it. as if their grinder or what ever was holding it was off set.if you have wobble and want to find out where it comes from, i think you'll find it's in the way they ground the flats. the round part of the shaft was true. you can place it on a flat surface to see it or run it in a drill to see it.adding some thing that fits tight to a bent shaft will only amplify the wobble affect and that's what you see in some of the videos. also, their extension is way to big inside diameter for their output shaft so the extension sits offset while on it. this would be a different wobble as the entire length of the extension should have the same amount of wobble and not just the tip of it.
Flats? Are we talking where drill chick grips?The shaft is hardened and anodized. i tried drilling it. Im sorry in production wise, i can see hogging off metal and being not perfectly straight. When you hardened a piece, the object takes different shape. Which to get it back to perfect, you need to leave stock(material) on to get that. Which is another process. If you want that much perfection your going to pay.
true that on sand blasting..0005? Ok?? To get that you need grinding! You can fart on it and it will move that much.
Ive been running my octane/clam plate with 8” mora and cut about 75 holes so far.yeah it wobbles but it also cuts ice so dam fast.
Mine wobbles in air. Not dramatic imo Using 8 inch lazer. No issues today did I don't how many holes. Worked awsome! Right when I was building my left arm up from hand drilling lol
Sorry to hijack, but I have the same wobble issue, plus another, while testing it to cut 2ft of air at home. I havent drilled through ice with it yet, but I will tonight. My primary concern is where the long part of trigger arm screws into the short part that has the small lever/plate pushes the drill. It wobbles here and it is not tight. I have about 1/8th inch space between the point where the two arms are connected. I tried to tighten and untighten them with no luck. Is this normal? TIA.