Drills for the Clam Drill Plate

[jmg]

Hey JMORFISH! This old hard headed German finally gave in, took your advice and took my DEWALT 985 drill into the DEWALT Service Center in Eden Prairie, MN yesterday. The kind gentleman, Kevin, with whom I had spoken the week before, took the drill in hand into the backroom and completed in about 3-4 min. what I hadn't been able to do in almost a month. Drill still looks good, chuck seems undamaged and now I can finally put everything together. Thanks again for your advice. Have to admit, though, that it was the same as my wife's-ouch! Enjoy the weekend.

[MikeG3Boat]

I had to do the same thing with my 985, except I had already broken my chuck. They cover my chuck under warranty which was great since they knew I broke it trying to get it off. Finally got it all put together and am going to give it a try today. I am so excited.

[Jmorfish]

Hey JMG and G3 Boat -- all I can say is 'FISH ON', and it's great to have a product that actually delivers, and these 2 products together make one heck of an ice auger..Clam conversion plate + DeWalt 980 series drill .. it's got a lot of attention on the ice and I think there's going to be alot of used gas augers for sale...I don't golf, but I played in 18 holes out on the ice today with a friend up here in Northern Utah, ice about 20" thick.

[MikeG3Boat]

Works great. Only problem is I drilled right down to end and didn't poke thru ice not augers fault. Just ordered an extension as I called many places around cites and all out of strikemaster extensions. I finished up with hand auger. Ice is really thick in cities.

[jmg]

Mike!~ Just curious as to where you ordered the extension from?

[MikeG3Boat]

Straight from strikemaster. It was on sale for $17.xx after shipping and tax like $27.xx. Shipping was expensive $8.99 but what ya do.

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