Cleaned my trimmer today

[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

 

[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 ))

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

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!

 

[Carscw]

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 ))

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

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:

 

[Carscw]

Just means you take care of your things

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

 

[JSB33]

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

 

[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

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

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:

 

[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