13.5 Lb, 5 HP Extreme Ice Auger

[HardH2O]

Magicstix, the first shaft I tried was titanium with no flighting which did not work. I have looked for a source of aluminum augers, but have not found any yet. Kluge makes a nice light weight auger assembly, alum / polymer.

Very cool on that little 210 6" combo. Usually, my Nils will power through the ice nice with the lazer, but it is softer already. You almost have to hold up on it a little.

[CAMAN]

I do not want to self incriminate myself so I plead the 5th on the gas thing. Some dumb silly-me (myself) may not have gotten the cap quite tight enough. Lost a few ounces of fuel. I wanted to demonstrate how light it is. If you look very close, you can see the cap come off between hole 1 and 2.

David

No problem, accidents happen, and we learn from them. Was just curious is all. Probably a whole lot less fuel and oil then gets spilled on/in the lake in a given week anyway.

And to make the aluminum flighting you should be able to make a few aluminum discs with a hole in the center, cut a slit perpendicular to the center axis and weld the discs together. Then stretch them out to whatever pitch you like. Will probably take a little trial and error for the correct size hole, and you'd probably need to atleast anneal the weld to keep it from cracking, maybe heat the entire weldment to get it to stretch properly.

[HardH2O]

Caman,

Awesome sketches there. I did find an excel spreadsheet online that will calculate the correct dimensions for doing exactly as you described. Another that uses an ellipse (concentric ellipses) and mounted (tilted) on the shaft.

Auger flighting is made by rolling (crushing the outer diameter)of a narrow ribbon of metal. Check your auger flighting. It is much thicker at the shaft.

[CAMAN]

Caman,

Awesome sketches there. I did find an excel spreadsheet online that will calculate the correct dimensions for doing exactly as you described. Another that uses an ellipse (concentric ellipses) and mounted (tilted) on the shaft.

Auger flighting is made by rolling (crushing the outer diameter)of a narrow ribbon of metal. Check your auger flighting. It is much thicker at the shaft.

Yeah, I realize they make production augers out of a single bar of steel, just most people don't have the equipment to do so. Similar to this, just hopefully a little more accurate that what these guys are doing... Are those waves and bumps in the flighting at 1:20 supposed to help carry the chips away?

[IamZombie]

Yeah, I realize they make production augers out of a single bar of steel, just most people don't have the equipment to do so. Similar to this, just hopefully a little more accurate that what these guys are doing... Are those waves and bumps in the flighting at 1:20 supposed to help carry the chips away?

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[Gordie]

David that is great my only question is if you drill twenty holes can you hear anything after that or do you wear hearing protection and BTW I want one too.

[Dave S]

Sounds like a nitro powered RC engine. WOW what a machine.

[magicstix]

my same thoughts on length. We don't get over 28"-30" were I fish so it works great.

Caman, great idea on the flighting, thats do able.

[bee]

Do you have a center point on the lazer?