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

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.

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Cheap assed string does that. Also, good string can do it if it gets caught
on something. (chain link fences are hell on string). Try some stihl brand
string, and buy one size larger than your machine calls for.

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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

Monster Cutters...as seen on TV.

on 10/24/2007 7:31 AM said the following:
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 used to have that problem with a spool head. I even sprayed WD-40 in
the spool to lubricate the string so it wouldn't get stuck.
It helped a little, but once the string that was lubricated ran out, the
problem returned.


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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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