Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101
I'm Bob and today I'm going to demonstrate the use of an auger bit.
So I have here an org abit this is a 5/8" auger bit.
8 inches long overall.
The stem part here which is pretty typical on all ship auger bits, is what they're really called here.
Ship auger bits, this part here is about 3 inches and its typical through all sizes.
The lengths these come in anywhere from 8 inches to 18 inches long.
I think there's a 12 inch, maybe there's a 10 inch, but you know you'll have to decide based upon what you're doing.
Also, auger bits they have this little screw in the front here. It is to pull the auger bit forward as it drills.
These auger bits also will break or cut nails as they go through.
These are very cool bits. Used on ships and many other different applications
but I'm going to demonstrate this now on drilling this auger bit into my sample piece of wood here.
This is only for demonstration. also you should know that you should not run and or a bit more than 600 rpm.
So slow as you go.
It just draws itself right in.
Now it did splinter in the front here a little bit if you don't want it to
splinter like this you take a piece of tape and, blue tape, painters tape, and
you put that on the front before you drill and that'll prevent this from
splintering the front face of the wood. So I want to demonstrate to you an auger bit
going through they say that they can go right through nails which I know they can but I have a
deck screw here that's right in the top going down and I want to demonstrate to
you an auger bit cutting way through a deck screw and I would be a stainless
steel screw. Let's give it a shot and see what happens.
I'm up against it right now
Right through. Coming through the other side. Look at that.
So there was some resistance there but it cut through the deck screw. I think that was
a number 10 deck screw, number 10 wire. So that would be equal to a like a
Ten penny nail or a duplex nail. No problem. Right through with that baby
Thanks for watching.