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So here is another question. What would happen if you put chipper blades off a 8" Eskamo Stingray onto a Blue Mora/Strikemaster shaver auger? Would it still cut?
I think some of you are missing the point. A brand new (at least when I bought mine) 8" mora will come with a 7" diameter auger and 8" blades. I am not aware of an 8" diameter mora auger.
Hey Guys....I've got some thoughts and/or questions on a couple of the topics being discussed here.1) I also recently bought an 8" Mora to use on my Milwaukee 1200# M18 Fuel/Clam Plate combo....I was previously trying to use an 8" hand Lazer I already owned, but also found that to often the drill's protection circuit was kicking off...mainly when i got to the lower half of the hole, or later in the season when more softer ice or slush is being dealt with. I read elsewhere to do a couple full discharges on the M18 batteries to recondition them, but it looks like that didn't fully solve the problem. I hoped the slightly less aggressive Mora would keep the protection circuit from happening. Initial drilling seemed to indicate it was a good compromise. Unfortunately a new issue came out of using the new 8" Mora I wasn't expecting. I also noticed they hung 8" blades on what appears to be the 7" Mora auger bit. I initially thought this would be a good compromise...save some weight and still get an 8" hole. Unfortunately what was happening to frequently is when the 8" blades hanging off the sides of the smaller auger bit punched through, they never cleaned out the rest of the hole diameter's ice....I was constantly going back with a small ice bar or the end of a skimmer handle to chip out the chunks leftover. I'm assuming that if the blades were hung on a true 8" auger bit, when you lower the bit, it must push off these leftover chunks? I've never had this happen before in all my years of using hand augers or augers on the clam plate when the blade size matches the auger bit. I'm rethinking my next move by either finding an 8" Mora that comes with a true 8" auger (if they even still offered it at some point), or looking at getting Eskimo's "shaver" style 8" hand auger. Unfortunately i know that Eskimo uses the China blades, where the Mora had the quality non China blades. My other option I'm thinking is note #2.2) I was thinking of adding some equally layed out notches to my 8" Lazer blades.....not to try and turn it into a "chipper" style blade, but to remove some of the aggressiveness off the Lazer blade. I see Pappadarv did this in his picture.....maybe not for the same reason I would do it. I wouldn't normally take a chance and butcher my 8" Lazer blades, but I know I will never use it again as a hand auger......I have 6" and 7" Lazers as needed. Pappadarv, how did the notch idea work out in the end? Do the notches create a more aggressive 'Chipper" style blade, or do they take the aggressiveness out of a Lazer blade?Sorry for being long-winded, but I'm at a fork in the road in my head.Thanks for all thoughts you guys can add.
That was the case, but they changed the design and increased the diameter of the flighting to wider than the 7" blades to help with slush removal.. Late 2014 I think it was. So now 7" blades will still bolt to an 8" mora but it won't cut because the flighting is too big