How To Tips for Easy Restring of Weed Eater with 2 strings
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Published 2015-05-21
Be kind, rewind.. your weed eater 2 string trimmer that is.
Most line trimmers, weed whackers, have refillable spools that dispense line as you need it while trimming up the edges of your yard.
We sell several styles of line trimmer spools all wound-up and ready to go. And if your spool is broken or not dispensing line you probably need to purchase a new one.
However, if your spool was still working until it ran out of line you can probably save up to $30 by purchasing bulk line and winding your old spool yourself. Because one $3.00 refill can rewind your old spool over 3 times saving about $10 for a new spool every time.
The most common line size is .065 which may be printed on the shaft of your machine, or on the spool, or in your owner’s manual. When in doubt bring in a scrap of the old line and sizing is easy with a dial calipers, (on hand in any quality lawn and garden business).
To rewind inspect the core of the spool and find the small hole or slot where the line can be inserted into. Put the line in the slot and let the package spin on the floor as you wind in the direction of the arrow on the spool.
Do not overfill your spool. Better to wind it to about 3/4 of the capacity or so because too much line and inserting the spool back into the machine can be difficult.
Once you have enough line on the spool cut it so 6” of line is in your hand and you are keeping it tight. There should be a slot in the spool for you to pull the line into keeping it from unwinding from the spool. This allows you to insert the spool into the machine without it unwinding. My slot is worn out so I have to keep my finger in the spool as I insert the loose end of the line into the feed hole in the machine. I feed the line through the hole, grab it to keep tension on it, and insert the spool.
My big machine is a 2 string trimmer so I cut two 9-foot pieces of line and wind them both at the same time. Your spool could be larger or smaller so 9-foot is just a starting point when making the two lines for your machine.
Last bonus to winding your own, you can purchase better commercial line that lasts longer than the original line.
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All Comments (21)
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Simple, accurate and to the point. I had a very frustrating time as the string would suddenly UNWIND when i almost had it done! Haha, i wish id seen your vid a while ago( would have saved a lot of swearing!). Ignore the " dislike" votes, you made a good vid and there is ALWAYS a moron somewhere who likes to be difficult. Best regards pal.
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Almost 10 years later and still there’s no better video than this !!
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Come back to this every year when I need to restring my strimmer and forget how to do it
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I get on YouTube to figure out things like changing a car battery, or in this case, re-spooling my weed eater. I appreciate the time you put into this video. It allows me to be more self-sufficient. Some of us don't have that person in their life or from childhood that would fill this role, and I appreciate the work.
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Right on target...no drama, no theme music, well articulated. Thank You And 👍
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thank you for not making a 7+ minute video on such a simple topic.
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Thank you for making a video that doesn't have 10 min of fluff in it and getting straight to the point! informative and effective. Also fellow MI native here!
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I have literally renovated a 300 year old house using YouTube, and I'm still coming back for things like this. Best platform ever made ❤
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Who da hell would dislike this video. He put this in the most easiest straight forward instruction FOR anyone can follow. Props
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When paper instructions are unclear, I then come to youtube to hopefully find a beautiful video such as this one! THANK YOU so much Mr. Hardware, you are a headache saver.
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Clear, easy, straightforward, simple - the dual line wind at same time is sooooo easy, so much easier than my past frustrating attempts! Great video!!
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Reminds me of old school Youtube, just a quick concise well explained video that gets right to the point and offers good advice. Thanks Mr. Hardware
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Man, I got tired of my weed eater spool unwinding in the middle of my cutting. Ive never thought of doing both at once! Gonna save me the time and headache my word. Thank you!
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Thanks! I can't believe I used to be so intimidated by the prospect of winding a spool that I paid many times more for pre-wound spools. It was actually fun and I feel like I accomplished something today!
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WOW. Thank you. It's so discouraging to be out in the yard working when the string runs out. All my garden energy became frustration with the restringing till your demo!
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I watch this video every year! I'm figuring in about 10 years I should have it down packed! Thanks Blair!!!
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Blair, I could listen to you all day buddy. Great demo 👍
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I’m 41 first time I’ve done this thang for the help
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OH my gosh! Thank you SO much for this video. My new trimmer was different than my previous one and I was clueless on how to restring it. I watched another video that was supposed to help, but in that video, it said to look for the hole on top of it- mine doesn't have it. Mine is exactly like the one you are using, so NOW everything finally makes sense!!
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YOU ARE THE BOMB!!! 3 hours away from my house and the spook just combusted as I was wacking and I have never done this before and it was possible ALL BECAUSE OF YOU SIR!
