After hours of searching the internet looking for an eyed auger I couldn't find any ware to buy one. So I decided to make my own, this one is just a prototype. I plan to buy a 1" diameter 8" long Irwin auger bit and some thicker pipe to use as the eye. I just threw this one together from some pipe I had laying around and an old auger bit sitting around in a box of junk.
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I don't claim to be a good welder but I can stick metal to metal. I had the weld perfect and the I got OCD and tryed to touch up one little spot and blew a hole in the pipe. Then I tried to build up my weld to fill the hole and just made the hole bigger. Trying to weld thin walled tubing with stick is kind of like trying to slice butter with a chainsaw, it can be done but it may end up messy.
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