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Eskimo Shaver turned into a lazer.

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Have you tried it yet? You may find without a center bit it may jump around a little, but being a hand auger maybe it will be ok at slower speed? Give a report back once you give her a go. Looks interesting. wink

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I tried it out a few days ago, drilled awesome. With the more aggressive lazer blades It starts drilling way better then just the shaver blades. It's a 7in auger on a clam plate with a milwaukee fuel drill. It cuts fast.

Great! Now we need video! grin

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Good job, you must be a machinist? Careful around your boots though. We made an auger many years ago with a car starter, nasty thing sliced a couple pair of boots when it jumped around. Those blades of yours are pretty dangerous looking sticking out like that.

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Have you tried it yet? You may find without a center bit it may jump around a little, but being a hand auger maybe it will be ok at slower speed? Give a report back once you give her a go. Looks interesting.

He put on the hand lazer blades not the power lazer blades. Center point not needed.

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Good job, you must be a machinist? Careful around your boots though. We made an auger many years ago with a car starter, nasty thing sliced a couple pair of boots when it jumped around. Those blades of yours are pretty dangerous looking sticking out like that.

Nope just bought the adaptor blocks off of e of the bay area

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What am I missing here? Whats the point? Why not just use a strikemaster auger?

I'm guessing he had an eskimo auger sitting around and blades were cheaper than an entire auger from strikemaster....but don't know for sure obviously.

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No, but you need to turn in your "Man-Card" for asking another man why he made something! And, he did it with flip-flops on!! grin

I think you might have to turn in your "Man-Card" for not asking! Im just trying to figure out what the adavntage is.

BTW: I dont see what he "made". He put 8 socket head screws in adapters be bought off E-----bay. Im not knocking any of it just trying to see the advantage. If it does something better than what he started with thats all that matters!

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I think you might have to turn in your "Man-Card" for not asking! Im just trying to figure out what the adavntage is.

BTW: I dont see what he "made". He put 8 socket head screws in adapters be bought off E-----bay. Im not knocking any of it just trying to see the advantage. If it does something better than what he started with thats all that matters!

I agree with you. Seems to be a lot of screwing around when there are some good hand drill setups out there. I'm sure he will let us know if he hit upon something great! wink

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I think you might have to turn in your "Man-Card" for not asking! Im just trying to figure out what the adavntage is.

BTW: I dont see what he "made". He put 8 socket head screws in adapters be bought off E-----bay. Im not knocking any of it just trying to see the advantage. If it does something better than what he started with thats all that matters!

What is there to figure out? I had a 7in shaver blade auger. For the price of $30 i made it into a lazer auger. A lazer auger would cost $90. Seems pretty simple it was cheaper then "buying" a lazer auger. Not only that, but now I have a versitale auger that can be either a 7 or 8in shaver or lazer. i got a set of lazer blades for $20 of hsolist, but figured that cost didn't matter since I needed a second set of blades for the auger.

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The important thing is does it work for you the way you want it too work. I've done a lot of these kind of projects over the years, some work some don't. Have fun.

Yes it does! 👽 Plus I have the good quality Mora made in sweeden blades on it now vs the cheap made in china dump blades that came on the shaver.

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This is an interesting thread. Can you post a video of it in use on the ice? I'd like to see how it works.
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I took it out and drilled anout 40holes on a local pond in 8-9in of ice worked great, but was alone so nobody to video me. Only video I have is of this setup with just the shaver blades on the auger head.

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