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“ One thing to consider when looking at blades and their sensitivity to dulling is how they're actually cutting the ice. The lazer/razr/Pistol Bit style blades are shavers, so by shaving through the ice, they'll be quite sensitive to dulling and will decrease in performance quickly when dull. They cut pretty nice, but sensitive when dull." WRONG. Lazers are not shavers and go dull easily. Pistol Bits and Ions are shavers and stay sharp much longer, and reopen holes with ease. I’ve had lazers, and got sick of replacing them. Never again.
The serrated blades fit. Reeds sent me a set instead of regular Lazer blades a few years ago and I ended up using them. They were a bit harder to turn by hand, but not terribly so.
While we're discussing Lazer blades does anyone know if the serrated Light Flight blades will fit onto the standard hand augers? Seems like they would be a better choice for drill setups.
I have the 24v and I'll never go back to a gas or hand auger again. It's so light and easy to use. So far I've never needed more than the one battery. It's even stayed sharp for 3 years now. I'll see what happens this year but I suspect I won't need to change the blade yet.
Razr was dodging the question hard. After refusing my first email, replying to me second email with "in our factory" (seriously, that's all they said), and playing dumb on amazon, I finally got an answer from a distributer. Razr augers are straight up imported Chineese augers. Nothing special about them. There's no way Razr owns any factory in China. As far as I'm concerned they are a bunch of liars. They're just a brand that imports augers and pretends they manufacture things, and to claim to have been "manufacturing" for 30+ years. OOF.Back to the drawing board. Still no Fin Bore augers to be found. I might have to try my hand at fabricating some offset handles for a Strikemaster lite flite auger.
I have a 6" fin bore for sale.
My bare Lite Flite 8" auger came in a 5 pounds 6 ounces.I fabricated an adapter to use Nils offset handle, the adapter and handles together came in at 2 pounds 12 ounces. The adapter is still very long until I figure out the height. I'm guessing the final product will be about 12" shorter, which must be 4 to 6 less ouncesI don't yet have an 8" Lazer hand auger. Instead I weighed my Mora 7" auger with handle and everything. It is 6 pounds 9 ounces.
Dude if you put it on a capable drill you'll see the difference. Absolutely no reason not to do the drill thing. IMO of course- Unless you WANT the exercise.
Thanks, but I'll pass. I'd consider a 7", otherwise I want 8". 6" is great for general fishing, but I do too much pike fishing where the bigger the hole, the better.
Can confirm, my pb squeezed through a 8" hole.
Here is an unforseen turn of events. Due to a recent post on weighing Lite flite augers, I decided to weigh my own. My bare Lite Flite 8" auger came in a 5 pounds 6 ounces.I fabricated an adapter to use Nils offset handle, the adapter and handles together came in at 2 pounds 12 ounces. The adapter is still very long until I figure out the height. I'm guessing the final product will be about 12" shorter, which must be 4 to 6 less ouncesI don't yet have an 8" Lazer hand auger. Instead I weighed my Mora 7" auger with handle and everything. It is 6 pounds 9 ounces.My Cold Snap cover alone for the Lazer is 11.5 ounces.Based on that I'm going to assume Strikemasters listed 8 pounds for the Lazer hand auger is correct, if not overstated. With my handle on my Lite Flite auger it will likely total about 8 pounds even. While it's true I could pull two sections of flighting off to match the Mora/steel Lazer it not going to save much weight.At this point I think I'm going to say forget the lite flite hand auger idea. Im going to buy a steel Lazer 8" for sure to use my offset handles on. It can be more compact with no modifications and may even weigh less. I know I said I was going to give the 24v an honest try, but I might just return it at this point.
I did this same thing I can run the nils handle or run it off my drill works fantastic the adjustable height makes it really nice.
Very nice. I was impressed with mine yesterday. Not much of a test, 4" ice on one lake, 5" on the other. Drilled about 30 holes, and I can't ask for better performance. Seemingly no fish in either though.