[AT] OT- String trimmers and other 2-cycle pieces of garbage

dglass dglass at numail.org
Sun Jun 15 13:00:14 PDT 2008


I bought a Husqvarna string trimmer used at a farm auction over twenty 
years ago for $10.  I have a blade on it and it will cut down a tree up 
to about 4 inches in diameter.  It still starts and runs fine.  I don't 
think the new Husqvarna's are as good.  My neighbor gave me a Stihl with 
a string head on it about five years ago because it was worn out and he 
was going to throw it away.  I put a new plug in it and reloaded the 
string correctly and it always starts also.

WF Smith wrote:

>Is it the new gasoline formulas, cheaper equipment, or just my poor luck
>that even when I store my string trimmers and other 2-cycle pieces of
>equipment (with stabil additive) they always come out the next season
>running improperly, if at all?
>
>I have a Homelite 25cc string trimmer sitting beside the shop right now,
>hemmoraging fuel through the carburetor. It is running so rich it eventually
>wets the plug and stops. There is only an idle adjustment screw (really just
>a stop for the throttle cam) and one other screw that I assume is the
>mixture. I've removed the primer bulb trying to stop the flow of gas and
>everything under there was clean as a whistle- no trash at all on the
>screen.
>
>I'm seriously considering just buying a new 90.00 trimmer each year and
>donating the previous years model to someone with more patience than I have.
>
>Does anyone have good experience with a particular brand? I'm not going to
>buy a big professional model because I have so little to trim it would be a
>waste, not to mention I could still have the same problems year to year.
>
>Warren
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