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The break through is tough on the lazers..even on the Mora at times ..one bad injury/wrenching you could be impaired or worse yet out of commission for the season . Having a center point is a plus ... I am a Clam Plate fan boy ..on my 7.5 K-Drill ..8" HT E-Drill ...and soon to be 8" Eskimo Pistol Bit..but to each their own and its always good to have options .
I’m curious how many can also be used for hand drilling like the nils if the unthinkable happens
I fish dirty ice (silty river) and open old holes often. The K-drill works perfectly for me.
This season I will be adding the ION Quick Release so the SM handle may have to tag along ..I will do a review on Quick Release once I see how it performs on ice .
That is a great idea. I have used the Eskimo quick release on my old SM Lazer gas auger and it worked just fine. I'm assuming you are planning on using the ION quick release on your Clam plate? I'm just curious if the ION version is 18mm on both ends of it or not. The Eskimo version is 22mm so if I were to try that out with a Clam plate I would need two adapters to go from 18mm to 22mm and back to 18mm again just to use a quick release with the Clam plate and the Pistol bit.
Awesome! Thanks for that info HD, I think I will pick one up as soon as I can.
Going to have to do a good review . It is a really nice option/tool making quick work for the ice anchors..also think I can save some space by breaking it down ..standing up the auger unit in a smaller sled ..think last ice mobility .
one thing I would suggest on that eskimo/ion quick connect is to either check your bolt connection regularly on that bottem allen bolt, or add something like loc-tite on or something similar as that thing will spin and and loosen up after awhile after you pop your auger on and off of your power unit if you use it alot.
I ordered the Vevor 8" auger and it arrived the other day. I don't have any experience with other augers for drills, but it seems well built. It came with quite a few accessories: heavy duty blade cover, spare set of blades, a disk to prevent dropping in to the hole if it spins loose, and extension rod with three heights. The extension rod requires the disk to be removed, to prevent the bit from coming loose there is a part that hooks over the drill and also comes with a handle.There is still a $20 off coupon through Amazon, unused it seems like a good purchase - looking forward to trying it out.
Thanks .. could you post the actual height of the drill unit from center point to the top of the drill bit w/o any adapter ? How fast was the shipping as its sold by a third party via Amazon?
HD-Sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday. I took measurements and it came out to 37 1/4". Not sure where they got that 39" measurement. I ordered on Sept 15th and it was delivered on Sept 17th. I used the $5 coupon code and it came out to $111.29 after taxes. it was purchased directly through Amazon and it has Veximo listed as the seller which appears to be the name of the Vevor storefront on Amazon.
This helps a lot..One other question ..is it Red or Yellow ?..the picture and description were not matching up .
Neither, it's Orange
The 8” auger is 37 and 1/4” long too. Shipping took 4 days.
Is it really 6 pounds?
Ordering today