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Cleaned my trimmer today

Jul 12, 2013#1

lawn mower fanatic

It was raining this afternoon so I cleaned my trimmer (the guard, gear head, and bottom of shaft). It was so dirty! I feel better now that the gear head is clean. Here are some before and after pictures. In the background of a few of the pictures you can see my edger, which is pretty clean, so you can compare my trimmer to that!

Before / After

During / After

Jul 12, 2013#2

Carscw

Mine gets clean when it gets wet from the rain.

All the loose grass falls off every time I hit a bump in the road.

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Jul 12, 2013#3

lawn mower fanatic

Carscw said:
Mine gets clean when it gets wet from the rain.

All the loose grass falls off every time I hit a bump in the road.

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

But do you see all the dirt on the shaft? That took a lot of elbow grease to come off!

Jul 12, 2013#4

Carscw

lawn mower fanatic said:
But do you see all the dirt on the shaft? That took a lot of elbow grease to come off!

It looks good.
Was just giving you a hard time

But know it looks like you don't use it

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Jul 12, 2013#5

lawn mower fanatic

Carscw said:
It looks good.
Was just giving you a hard time

But know it looks like you don't use it

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

I'll make sure to get it dirty again! Until the next cleaning...probably over the winter! :laughing:

Jul 12, 2013#6

Carscw

Just means you take care of your things

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Jul 12, 2013#7

J

JSB33

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago, its like a new machine.
Nice transformation.

Jul 13, 2013#8

exotion

I tend to try to wash my equipment every weekend. It feels nice to have brand new looking equipment at the start of the week.

The problem with echo trimmers is the gap between the guard and head catches weird stuff string cotton hair balls take the head off and you'll see what I'm talking about don't think it hurts it but hey why not? Also my echo trimmer gets a lot of gunk inside the muffler shroud around the muffler every now and then when I have a few mins I try to clean that out. Also I pour a few drops of oil into the starter keeps the rope from drying out and keeps the spring lubed and blow out air filter and replace yearly

Jul 13, 2013#9

lawn mower fanatic

exotion said:
I tend to try to wash my equipment every weekend. It feels nice to have brand new looking equipment at the start of the week.

The problem with echo trimmers is the gap between the guard and head catches weird stuff string cotton hair balls take the head off and you'll see what I'm talking about don't think it hurts it but hey why not? Also my echo trimmer gets a lot of gunk inside the muffler shroud around the muffler every now and then when I have a few mins I try to clean that out. Also I pour a few drops of oil into the starter keeps the rope from drying out and keeps the spring lubed and blow out air filter and replace yearly

Yeah I have gotten string stuck in the place you described and it has taken like 10 minutes of cutting and unwinding to get it out. :confused2:

Jul 13, 2013#10

exotion

I need to get the stuff to lube the shaft on my 225's had my string trimmer for a few seasons now and have never done it. I want to add that to my annual maintenance

Jul 13, 2013#11

lawn mower fanatic

exotion said:
I need to get the stuff to lube the shaft on my 225's had my string trimmer for a few seasons now and have never done it. I want to add that to my annual maintenance

I've never done it, either.

Jul 28, 2013#12

Lawnboy18

Looks very good! How did you clean it exacly?

I cleaned my mower yesterday and even repainted some spots around the discharge shoot.

Jul 28, 2013#13

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Lawnboy18 said:
Looks very good! How did you clean it exacly?

I cleaned my mower yesterday and even repainted some spots around the discharge shoot.

All I used was a scrub brush for the thicker areas, paper towels, and water. :thumbsup:

Jul 28, 2013#14

LawnBoy97

lawn mower fanatic said:
All I used was a scrub brush for the thicker areas, paper towels, and water. :thumbsup:

I just squirted some Simple Green on it, and it all wiped right off. It is kind of weird how stuck all that grass gets!:confused2:

I actually use a Kawasaki trimmer though, but have you guys noticed any string getting stuck to the inside of the head. Occasionally I will get some that seems to have melted into the spool. Just weird.

Jul 29, 2013#15

lawn mower fanatic

LawnBoy97 said:
I actually use a Kawasaki trimmer though, but have you guys noticed any string getting stuck to the inside of the head. Occasionally I will get some that seems to have melted into the spool. Just weird.

I personally have not seen that.

Jul 29, 2013#16

Kodie's Lawn Service

LawnBoy97 said:
I just squirted some Simple Green on it, and it all wiped right off. It is kind of weird how stuck all that grass gets!:confused2:

I actually use a Kawasaki trimmer though, but have you guys noticed any string getting stuck to the inside of the head. Occasionally I will get some that seems to have melted into the spool. Just weird.

Some times the line gets hot an will cause this I seen someone put wd-40 on there an it not do that but I haven't had it happen on my speed feed head though :thumbsup:

May 20, 2014#17

R

Ryan Rognstad

Your equipment looks great I love Echo and I've tried cleaning my trimmers many times but never seem to get them that clean, what did you use to get that stuck on grass off the shaft?

May 20, 2014#18

exotion

For the shaft and trimmer plastic use purple power. For the power head use 409 cleans it without taking the clear cote off

May 24, 2014#19

lawn mower fanatic

Ryan Rognstad said:
Your equipment looks great I love Echo and I've tried cleaning my trimmers many times but never seem to get them that clean, what did you use to get that stuck on grass off the shaft?

I just use a scrub brush and water. And elbow grease. :thumbsup:

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