Wood auger
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An auger is a device to drill wood or other materials, consisting of a rotating metal shaft with a blade at the end that scrapes or cuts the wood.[1]
TypesEdit
Study of a man using an auger, from The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin, by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496.
The classical design has a helical screw blade winding around the bottom end of the shaft. The lower edge of the blade is shapened and scrapes the wood; the rest of the blade lifts the chips out of the way. It is powered with two hands, by a T-shaped handle atached to the top of the shaft.
More modern versions have elaborated auger bits with multiple blades in various positions.[2]
Modern versions also have different means to drive the shaft, resulting in various tools such as braces, wheel drills, and power drills.
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ "auger". ldoceonline.
- ^ Cox, George William (1906). The little cyclopaedia of common things (12th ed.). S. Sonnenschein & Co. p. 31.
External linksEdit
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- "Brief history of the auger". Wonkeedonkeetools.