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I'm a yard-tard :(

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imported_ArtVandalay

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Working on a diagram, but in the meantime do gas trimmers have a standardized line holder assembly, and is there something obvious about it that outdoors-types know about?
 
Huh? Yes. You pull the spool off the bottom and wind string around it...

For the truely challenged, I know at least sears makes trimmers where you can just buy pre-strung spools, so you pull the old one off and stick the new one on.
 
the one I use is wierd...it takes a long piece of string (about 12" total)...and you feed it into these 2 holes. It's like...2 holes that are an inch apart that feed through the head into two more holes that are on the opposite sides...the string ends up sticking out 4-5'' on each side
 
Originally posted by: ArtVandalay
Well I have a replacement spool, it's exactly like the spool that's on there so I guess it's a pre-spooled model. I just can't get the damn thing off.
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What can you not get off? Is the nut that needs to be removed reverse threaded, meaning righty-loosy, lefty-tighty?
 
Originally posted by: ArtVandalay
Well I have a replacement spool, it's exactly like the spool that's on there so I guess it's a pre-spooled model. I just can't get the damn thing off.
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see if there are any screws or tabs holding it in, sometimes they just have a springloaded tab on the inside and pulling hard enough will get it out

refer to the eh

damn

oh yeah, owners manual.
 
Ah, the perils of lifting weights and knowing naught about yard equipment... I got pissed and put all my strength into it, and the metal rod holding the whole assembly together snapped right off 🙁 And I lost tfm or I'd have r'd it 🙁 I'm thinking I'm just going to call a firma de landscapio... er, a landscaping firm and part with a few bills every couple weeks, so much easier.
 
Btw John Deere and crew can gobble my little bald-headed friend. What the hell kind of freaking idiot says "Ok, I have an idea. You know how most screws loosen counterclockwise? Wouldn't it be funny if we frustrated the hell out of people and made a bad, breakable product by doing it the other way?" And what the hell kind of freaking idiots agree with him? Even if I had gone the other way, it would only have gotten the cap off. The driveshaft, which is all one piece, ends in a nut much wider than the line assembly. I don't think it'd have been possible to get it off. Prior to all this, the mechanism which reels the starter line back in after a pull was all but broken, only working 1 in 10 times and very weakly even then. I'm now boycotting John Deere.
 
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