beaver dam handles

Anyone ever try and mount a handle on the beaver dam tipups, like they have on the frabills or the ht polars. I was thinking you could just drill a hole in the spool and soldier on a nail. any better options?

Gobbler has the right idea, but make sure you cut the notch around 10-11:00 and not at 6-7:00. One of mine is at 7:30 and more than once a larger shiner has gotten the line out of the eye and plummeted to the bottom with no flag to alert me. I do like the loose nail idea in addition to that, though.  

I just use this

Jigrod has an excellent idea. Small hole sand off rough edges and keep a few nails in your pocket to use when needed.

On the top of the metal line guide take a hack saw and cut a line through it, then you can easily take line off an spool by hand.

They make a little wood handle to reel those up.  Just throw it in your pocket and good to go.  I have one, but I don't use it all that much to be honest.  Its usually not a big deal to just put my finger on the bottom of the spool and turn it.  But I have it if I want to use it, like if its cold and I want to put my hand in a glove.

If the previous comments are enough of a concern you could stick with your original idea of drilling a hole in the spool and instead of permanently attaching a crank just stick a nail or whatever in the hole when its time to wind it up.  

If you do that your minnow can swim and wrap the line around the handle, then the fish cant take any line out.  The same thing can happen if the fish takes the line back under the spool before the brass line guide can swing around.  It’s a bad idea and you will pay the price sooner or later.

I think that the spool would be out of balance and a fish would drop the bait if it ran with it fast when it felt the vibration.  Especially Walleyes.  CARPIO 

If you meant a crank why drill when you can glue