On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:47:55 -0500, Snag wrote:

On 3/26/2021 12:51 AM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:56:24 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article ,
says...

Has any homeowner actually ever worn out the engine on a weed eater?
They usually get tossed because of other things, just like cars.



If like I used to be, they got tossed because they would not start. That
was for the cheap ones.

After I retired and had time, I found out most of them needed the
carborator cleaned out or some fuel line in the gas tank was bad.

Often the filter in the tank broke off and then let junk into the
carborator.



Lots of them lost compression to the point they would not start
without rther too - or the crankcase seals started to leak and they
ran lean ANF had poor transfer. In other words they wore out. Quite a
few of the cheap ones had a half life of about 75 hours. In 150 they
were dead.


I was looking at the data tag on a Poulan chainsaw , it said the
expected service life was 50 hours ... that was tied to emissions levels
, but from personal experience that particular make/model isn't one I
would ever buy again . My Stihl equipment has much better workmanship
and materials .
ANd that 50 hours better not be in one week!!! The duty cycle on the
crap has to be less than one minute cutting and 3 resting to last even
that long on some of the cheap (not necessarilly inexpensive) brands -
which translates to a month or two of casual wood-cutting.