The motor is good and starts well and runs ok... The trimmer head would not feed line out and you had to manually feed some out and put it all together...... Anyway I just drilled out the brass guides and fited zip ties....... cut to right length. I bodgied the air filter and put a zip tie around it It will do the job..................I'm over this one $25 to a friend......... he's lucky, except his car just blew head gasket and he's spent $2000 so far............. How's the photography.......... full sun is the answer as these digital cams love the light..... Friday night cheers speedy
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Hi speedy, trimmers are the pits, you can spend so much time on them and then people expect to get them for peanuts. I usually don't work on them but recently I have been repairing some just to reduce the number here. Once I get them sorted the rest will go to the scrap and hopefully I won't end up with anymore. Not sure how the cable ties will last and I have been fitting the Grass Gator heads on the ones I have here, they cost $15 but they are a strong head made in USA, not China and are dead simple to restring
Good find Speedy. I grabbed the same model last tuesday off the curbside collection - wound the startercord back in with a screwdriver through the cowl and it worked again.
Someone was rough and 2 lumps on the starter are worn.
Solution is to pull slowly until on compression, let the starter cord wind back in, pull back out and start as normal. That way the pawls on the flywheel are in the right position to use the unworn part of the starter.
Good thing is it starts 2nd pull. Last of the good-ish homelites in my opinion - after that they went downhill with the engines you can't rip apart without a shop press
I did the math of 1.6mm trimmer line v zip ties a while ago - zipties work out a bit more expensive, but if it means not stuffing around with a non functioning bump feed, it is worth it
I once found one of those 1980s McCulloch line trimmers with a single line bump feed. It started up fine but was so weak I just let it lie amongst my pile of other discarded dead trimmers I had and never used it before eventually throwing it out with the rest. I know someone who's father chose the cheapest petrol trimmer be could find back in the 1980s. It was a 17cc Kawasaki bent shaft waste of $800. It was absolutely gutless he told me. They later got a Dolmar which was good until the shaft gave up the ghost.
They ended up with a good engine with nothing to power. Dead weight in other words lol!!
Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!
