On Oct 24, 9:31 am, wrote:
I have an electric weed whacker. It works fairly well when it has
string, but almost every 5 minutes the string breaks off inside the
reel so I spend more time fixing the string than whacking. It seems
the string sort of welds itself together. This is a factory wound
spool, not one I would, so it should work. This whacker is new, and
this spool came with it. What would cause this? I had an older
whacker that hardly never did this, except the motor burned out.
Thats when I bought this new one and the string has been nothing but
trouble. I did have thicker string in the old one, maybe I need
something thicker. Will that fix the problem?

Thanks
Alvin

I gave up using the string. I replaced it with a length of steel snare
wire. It's weight does not make the motor over work and it never
breaks.