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

[Clint D]

I have the same problems, have a bunch of weed eaters that only have one 
season of use.
I bought a 4 cycle and this year it wouldn't start, I looked in the tank 
and the hose inside had dried hard and broke up. I replace it and it 
fired right up

Some thing about the gas we get now days
Clint

charlie hill wrote:
> I've never had any luck with them either.  Next one I buy (if I do) will be 
> a 4 stroke.  They can't be as tempermental as the 2 stroke ones are.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "WF Smith" <mogrits at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [AT] OT- String trimmers and other 2-cycle pieces of garbage
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>> 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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