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[Basschaser]

A friend gave me a very old hand auger and I want to modify it for use with a power drill. But I can not figure out how to separate the auger section from the handle. I am not sure of the brand, it is a medium blue auger with red plastic hand grips.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[DitchWizard]

remove the key screw if you haven't already then step on or hold the auger body and move the handle from side to side.

Its more than likely just rusted in, if you can't free it up try some penetrating fluid like jig a loo or liquid wrench and let it sit over night then try it again.

[Basschaser]

There is no screw to remove!
Wondering if old style augers thread together.

[Basschaser]

If I knew how to post pictures I would put some up of the auger,

[Swing4Steel]

Yep lots of old ones thread together. 2 pipe wrenches and some heat!

[DitchWizard]

Go to the advanced post options when you reply and you can simply select a file and attach it to your post. It's on the right hand side I believe

[Basschaser]

[Kit]

That looks like its one piece. 

[FishChaser67]

the dimple punch  on the shaft is what is keeping it together just drill it out with a same size drill bite  then it will come apart

[Basschaser]

the dimple punch  on the shaft is what is keeping it together just drill it out with a same size drill bite  then it will come apart

Are you sure? Someone else thought it screwed together with the male threads being part of the blue auger section.

[w_ boughner]

It looks to be punched to me but you can try to turn it with a pipe wrench first

[J'snest]

I have this baby. Its an old swedish model. The handle is threaded onto the auger part. The thread is a very fine thread and the auger part is a differrent metal than the handle. In my case the threads actually rusted away and I ended up welding the handle to the auger. They were always hard to separate because of teh fine thread and the tourque you put on the auger when you drill through teh ice tigthens it even more. But if your case I'm guessing they are siezed together. Put the auger in a vise and put a pipe wench on the handle. It may still take some work to get off. Good luck

[Basschaser]

I have this baby. Its an old swedish model. The handle is threaded onto the auger part. The thread is a very fine thread and the auger part is a differrent metal than the handle. In my case the threads actually rusted away and I ended up welding the handle to the auger. They were always hard to separate because of teh fine thread and the tourque you put on the auger when you drill through teh ice tigthens it even more. But if your case I'm guessing they are siezed together. Put the auger in a vise and put a pipe wench on the handle. It may still take some work to get off. Good luck

Thanks! I am going to try that method, along with some heat from a torch.

[Basschaser]

Well, I tried the torch, vice and pipe wrench combo method and it won't come apart. All I did was tear up the shaft with the teeth from the vice and pipe wrench.

[Kit]

Guess its not meant to be lol.

[Knuguy]

I agree with FC67. That missing metal that forms the dimple went somewhere. In all likelihood it's been pushed inward. So you need to drill it out as suggested.

[OCDComputing]

sawzall....nuff said

[salmotrutta]

Hope you took into account that the torch can have the opposite effect that you want if the inside metal expands faster than the outside.