Sparepart for bump feed

If the line feeds with out bumping it nay be the line gas been put on the wrong way

The feed bump located on the bottom of the unit is the portion of the head that you tap on the ground to feed more trimmer line as you are trimming.

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Jul 5, 2008 - I have indeed hurled my own ryobi across the yard in a fit. ... Some heads are not designed for curved shaft trimmers or on engines under a .... the fence so thestring won't wrap around the fence instead of whipping in and out.

get a bump and feed head put on it it i just got one put on myself heaps quicker Mowerpower Kilsyth Victoria

Bumping the string head lightly on the ground will release more trimmer line if the line was loaded properly and spooled in the correct direction. If the line was loaded wrong, doing this procedure won't help. Make sure your line was loaded correctly. Do this bump as the engine is slowing down or running slow. Most all gas trimmers work this way, but some of the electric ones have automatic line feed and no bumping is necessary.

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The line on my new 26cc Homelite would also feed out by itself. That started me thinking the line was wound backwards. I wrapped the line in the opposite direction as was shown on the bump feed reel and now the dang thing works although the bump feed needs to be "bumped" pretty hard to work. Is it possible that the reel was manufactured with the (string direction) arrows pointing the wrong direction? The new 26cc unit is also underpowered compared to my older 25cc trimmer.

I've never had any luck with those stupid bump heads. Every time I would refill them, the string would get caught up. They bind up. I finally replaced the bump head with a string head that you place short pieces of string in. They're not perfect either. You have to pre-cut the string to about 9-12 inches in length, and just replace the piece when it's time.

So, is this trimmer suppose to feed the string automatically? If not, then it sounds like the string is wound up on the spool the wrong direction.

Jim

Problem solved. We noticed something was broken off a small part inside the spool holder. My husband took it to the local hardware store, and one of the employees gave him the part from a trimmer that had been returned.