Remove old garden trimmer head

rh1 said:
Yes, if I can get that nut of.
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As I mentioned above. Remove the motor out of the housing and get it in a benchgrip.Also it works righty loosy and not lefty loosy. You virtually have to strip the whole trimmer down until you only have the motor in hand.You will also see the lock screw that way to lock the shaft, if the screw holds up to lock it.
 
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absynth said:
As I mentioned above. Remove the motor out of the housing and get it in a benchgrip.Also it works righty loosy and not lefty loosy. You virtually have to strip the whole trimmer down until you only have the motor in hand.You will also see the lock screw that way to lock the shaft, if the screw holds up to lock it.
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Since I have quite a few hours invested into this, might as well go all the way. Worst case scenario, I just buy another one. :oops::laugh::laugh:
 
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That should give you an idea of how much of a mission it was.Still have it for keeps sake :ROFL:
Luckily they give a new one with replacement fitting.All those marks also show how soft the metal is.
 
rh1 said:
Cutting the lawn today. Had a brain fart. View attachment 1224100

The old head never worked properly, so I was constantly rewinding, winding it. So if I have retie the new line every so often, it will probably work the same. Off to try.
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The new head does not exactly work well either, I have to keep opening it up when I need more line.
I think that it's time for a new trimmer.
 
Just buy yourself a Still petrol trimmer. Had mine almost 8 years and the only thing I had to replace was the priming bubble S it split in half the other day. Putting in new line is super easy. Shove two pieces in both sides and just wind it in. Feeding new line, a gentle whack on the button at the bottom with some revs and out it comes.
 
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absynth said:
Still have to find a trimmer in my life that actually works the way its supposed to when it comes to feeding the line.
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Make sure you wind the line really tight when adding new line and that the spring is in the correct place.
 
I suppose they want you to cut with the thin line. I always use 2mm. stop it, turn over, press extract ,

and still remember the first time I got the petrol one, every minute, looked around to see if the electric wire is still good, then remember there is no wire.

but, the garden engineer could never start it, so went back to electric model.
 
gertvanjoe said:
Just buy yourself a Still petrol trimmer. Had mine almost 8 years and the only thing I had to replace was the priming bubble S it split in half the other day. Putting in new line is super easy. Shove two pieces in both sides and just wind it in. Feeding new line, a gentle whack on the button at the bottom with some revs and out it comes.
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So it starts from R1,895 for the corded version and then goes up from there:

 
My cheapo Flymo elec trimmer is 15 years old, not a single thing ever replaced and the string mechanism works perfect like day 1.
I have sometime seen people not winding the string correctly and also some people don't know how it work. Some machines you need to tap it on the ground to feed the line, other like Flymo feed a bit of line every time the head comes to a stop,
 
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