Ray Sheley
10-09-2006, 7:20 PM
I bought a box full of Auger bits that had been sitting in a barn for years.
Surface rust but no serious pitting, most were dull, but some serious sizes (2" on down to 1/4"), some with brace tangs, some for Jacobs.
I'm laying down the pilings to compensate for my sloping ground, and have decided to layout the support beams at the very least before the snow flies, which means some pretty good sized counterbores to clear the 1/2 washers and nuts holding the clamp plates to the pilings.
I decided to clean up the worst chewed up 1 1/2" auger, both cutting faces looked like they met up with a nail, really buggered up.
Some quick file work, and those barn bits spit out chips that reminded me of broken quarters. You have just got to love those G-Sale finds.
Surface rust but no serious pitting, most were dull, but some serious sizes (2" on down to 1/4"), some with brace tangs, some for Jacobs.
I'm laying down the pilings to compensate for my sloping ground, and have decided to layout the support beams at the very least before the snow flies, which means some pretty good sized counterbores to clear the 1/2 washers and nuts holding the clamp plates to the pilings.
I decided to clean up the worst chewed up 1 1/2" auger, both cutting faces looked like they met up with a nail, really buggered up.
Some quick file work, and those barn bits spit out chips that reminded me of broken quarters. You have just got to love those G-Sale finds.