TRASH PICKED - Homelite Weedeater String Trimmer...Can We Save It?
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2022
- Here is yet another piece of lawncare equipment I found on the side of the road on trash pickup day. This is a Homelite Trimlite 25cc 2-stroke weed trimmer, Model 5HCPS. This seems to share a lot of parts with the UT20006 and the UT-20706 TrimLite. Probably others as well. Let's wrench on it and find out why it was thrown in the garbage.
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Always amazes me that people throw out equipment like this when it's such an easy fix, just bought a 5000 watt generator today from a yard sale, old man said he couldn't get it started, 40 bucks, I took it home and cleaned the carb , fired right up
I have lived a full life with things people pass down due to fear and ignorance. Americans are mpney spenders and throw away and destroy what they spent their money on as they go type idiot population. During the 1979 gas shortage fear of morons that practically gave away full sized cars and switched to compact junk cars, I bought up many Cadillac and Oldsmobile big cars for around 800 to 1500 each that had another 100 k miles left in them
Slap a Gibson logo on it and resell it for 8 grand.
Classic
its got that tone plastic, maaaaan.
Awesome! Its really satisfying watching you bring back these disregarded items back to life!
I like to watch your patience and persistence. Good job as always.
I come from a generation that if something stopped working you fix it, or get someone else to fix it if you weren't able to and keep fixing it until you couldn't fix it no more. It IS enough to make you cry when you see the wastefulness around us. Great video Brad 👍.
@Filthy Peasant Yep 😂😂
Screw that guy. I like the tinkering videos. But for real, are you not doing amp repairs anymore? Just wondering because I can send you my Peavy Triple X. It's kind of noisy (dont know if it will get quieter or not) and I have a fresh set of 6L6's to put in it (currently running EL34's).
Great find with minimum repair cost... you hit a little come up on that one
Adjusting the carb can be a pain. Great work getting it purring!
i subscribe to a youtube channel called; steve's small engine saloon
he's the best small engine repair guy on the tubes.
Also, those little engines need a little more RPM on the idle adjustment they're made small displacement to be more fuel efficient but they don't have a lot of power so they're made to run literally full tilt even damn near at idle. Just my experience with little engines. Good deal for a 30 bucks. 😁👍
My string trimmer has a cracked primer bulb. Yes, it's sad how people throw things out. My issue is twofold: 1, my vision is going, and 2 use of my hands coordination. I was paralyzed . After 22 years as a deputy sheriff and 5 firefighters, EMT-A. I hate that I'm limited in fixing things. But your video is good. Now i need to find a primer bulb. Cheers
Good save, I pulled one from a dumpster last year, just the fuel hose was cracked, once replaced it fired right up! Only 5 years old as well.
I was almost positive it was a primer bulb when you began this video I graduated Vo-Tech in 1991. I would have immediately ran out to the hardware store bought a new primer bulb. I would have had it running within 15 minutes just like you. Glad to see somebody else doesn't want to throw stuff away and would rather fix it just like me good man Brad.....✌🤩✌
One mans junk is another mans treasure is so true. You would have a field day here picking up items and repairing them after people throw it out its really something else. You could literally open up a repair shop picking junk out of the trash and reselling it as a part or full time buisness if you appoached it right. Nice fix simple at least you didnt loose spark...Good Video!
I rescued the same trimmer, the same way. When I see a primer bulb that's gone brown like that, I replace that, the lines, and the metering diaphragm and check the fuel tank for debris. It's so cheap and easy to do.
The Trimlite is a very lightweight trimmer with a dual string head and a clean curbside find is absolutely worth a try.
damn dude the end was like frikken doom2 except with a frikken strimmer! sweet!
Brad singlehandedly making sure all engines in Louisville are working right.
Brad, you could do anything on the Tube & it would be interesting. I think maybe that's because I haven't quite figured you out yet. You're part hippie (I don't think you're gonna like that), part old-timer, part hmm...(redneck isn't the right word), part artist, and ALL real. Am I judging? I guess so!
Anyways, THANK YOU, Brad, for doing what you do. I like the weed eater thing. By the way, around here what we call a weed whacker is a glass of tequila and a shot of beer. No, wait! Oh, hell! I'll have one of those!.....
PS Which is better? Straight shafted, or curved like your Homelite?
I don't know, I think it like the curved shaft better. Just depends on what she likes better.
@@TheGuitologist Yessir. I do believe she likes a curved shaft. I do like it straight, though. It's just the way I am. I love the idea of live streaming AS YOU TRY TO FIX something. The unknown quality of not knowing whether you're gonna succeed lends a bit of mystery that makes it interesting. I'm putting that in my plan for when I start making fix-it videos. AND I'm gonna keep score, too. After each repair, I'll add that item to a spreadsheet or a chalkboard or dry-erase board & keep a running percentage. Quick story: I had a talk-box - the blue one that sometimes says Ibanez, and I think some of them say Maxxon on the label - I bought it about thirty years ago, broken. It didn't work. I swear I must have moved and carried that thing with me 5 times. I meant to "get it repaired" when I could afford it. Eventually, about ten years ago, I decided to just look inside. Maybe I would see some clue. IT WAS A LOOSE WIRE! God damn it! I promptly sold that one for about $300 (pretty sure it was $20 broken when I bought it) and built my own. Fix stuff? You damn right I can fix stuff. And if I can't fix it, I'll eat my hat!
-- ...Excuse me. I have to go get a hat made of blintzes or tortillas or pancakes or something. Just a little thing to make life easier.
You're right. It's pity that so many perfectly good things are tossed away as rubbish. Let's fix the whole world! Yee Haughw!
Found this vid trying to remote solve a homelight trimmer issue, exact match for the one I 'm working on. Was able to pull the model number off your vid - thx for the high def vid! :)
Wow Brad... Nice one!
Been through this very same thing last week to get the string trimmers running. I think I hadda buy a couple carburetors for the pair of them a couple years ago, they were really cheap, like $15 each. I use the premixed fuel from the hardware store, seems to be more stable. Now to do the same thing with the leaf blowers and the chainsaw.
I saved an old disused weed Wacker. Same repair essentially. Use 50:1 remix and it starts after winter no issues. Thanks for the worthwhile content Brad. Enjoy the rehabbed tools. Maybe you will find a riding mower next. Convert it into a go cart?!
I've got about the same trimmer but it's much newer and it's still running great at almost 11 years old. I also have a homelite leaf blower from about 6 or 7 years ago and it still runs. They key with these small engine is to use non ethanol gas and stabil is your friend. I have a lawn mower that's probably over 20 years old and I got it for free 11 years ago and it still runs great in fact I've picked up a couple of free mowers that weren't running and fixed them up and used them for awhile and sold them for a profit.
This video reminds me of the lawnmower I bought second-hand three years ago for NOK 350 (= $40). Didn't run properly, needed fuel poured straight into the carb to even get it started. The seller told it was left behind in the garage by a former resident, so he just wanted to get rid of it for cheap. I brought it home, removed and cleaned out the carb, put in a new diaphragm, cleaned the air filter and replaced the spark plug and motor oil. Ran great and still runs fine. The blade might need to be sharpened, though.
Great success
He hold a throttle half wide open and just the high side screw into it clears up the best way I learn to do this was not watch another seasoned mechanic do it
When you pulled that carb I was like ",Oh oh" Because it wouldn't prime with a vacuum leak via the bulb.
Then it all came about and voila' another great video.
Another great save! Pretty soon your neighbors are going to start showing up asking to borrow their discarded tools from you.
ah!! the applied science of wherewithal works wonders brad,
that was ace !
Brad you need to go pro camera, that hat is ridiculous 😂😂😂
I haven't got a recommendation or notice of posting for this account in like 8 months I just saw something from channel 2 and was like oh yeah, this guy exists.
this is hilarious, neighbors put "trashed" weed eaters on their sidewalks, an hour later hey hear em running and whackin weeds over at Brads... too funny
the ethanol in the gasoline eats rubbers.
rubber hoses, rubber primer bulbs, gaskets.
nice save and fix brad.
steve's small engine saloon.
good youtuber who can help ya with the idle ans other carb settings.
should be 3 different screws to adjust.
one of them you fiddle with at full throttle to set things up proper.
have a great weekend everybody!
The hat and slippers did it for me aha
Love these videos Brad….
You're playing with fire fixing stuff on your deck... One day a nut or something is gonna slip thru a crack lol. Love your vids Brad!
Whats the fuel mix in that can? 60/30 or 1/1 im sure were getting lower grade gas (they're not checking every truck)
40:1
It runs!
I have the same trimmer same problem and a 2005 unit.Just put the Echo brand ezfeed 400 trimmer head on it.
This video had me thinking we had a lot in common, Brad. Then I saw the shoes...
Will you be doing any amp videos in the future?
Brad ...the "mustie" guitologist to the rescue!
Mustie1 is a legend when it comes to small engines on UA-cam. Brad, check him out if you haven’t already. I’d also think about a playlist or a channel for your non-guitar/amp related revivals. They seem to be well-received, and most DIY’ers work on more than one type of thing, so the crossover content being popular isn’t surprising. All the best and keep on wrenching and soldering!
@@simplemusican G'day! Don't forget... Donyboy73 "The Small Engine Doctor" dedicated to the art of Small Engine Repair and helping the DIYer's. He's been a small engine mechanic for many decades, and also runs his own repair shop... So his videos are loaded with great tips and tricks. That he's learned over the years. Cheers! 😃
Is it right or left handed?
Needed a new 12ax7 bulb
If you can fix a Mesa, you can fix ANYTHING 😃🤘!!
Doing this sort of thing is helping to save the planet even if small gesture by small gesture
Didn't start with seeing if there's a spark in the first place?
HI, BRAD ALWAYS CHECK THE SPARK PLUG FIRST, AND NEVER USE ETHANOL IN
GAS & OIL MIX... HIGH TEST DOES NOT HAVE ETHANOL IN IT, MOST OF THE TIME ?
I've never had luck with bump heads on those trimmers.
dood man you're going to be able to start your own lawn care service here soon, maybe you can do those "I mowed this old ladys lawn for free and her reaction was priceless" or not, charge her wth.. lol
Hey brad , when you seen this in the garbage did it resemble a amp or a guitar . Good luck my friend .
Is that a techno bird I hear in the background at the Video Start
man I gotta start getting out earlier.
These things maybe don't cost much, but it costs a lot for the environment which we never include it in the price
Clean the breather filter and change the sparkplug.
I think the sparks arrestor need to be clean to get it kicking at full run.
I am a professional small engine mechanic you're probably going to need to take the diaphragms out of the carburetor and replace them if you're not pliable soft and you touch them and they sound like rice paper then they're probably bad also as well you going to need to get a fuel filter in which case it may be gummed up he can go to some place like Western Auto to get a carburetor kit and a fuel filter this what all needs to replace
You can change the top part. They are the same carburetor.
Clean it change the little air filter. Think that would help
High end is next to air filter.
Damn! I’m literally looking for a strimmer too… You really are a jammy fuck at times Brad!
Great content as always!
About that edger you still need...
I need to make one of those hats for sexy time
Okay homelite is a mid-range decent weed eater the best wheels on the market bar none is still and Husqvarna but a homelite is a decent weed eater the weed from Walmart the feather light is crap LOL
Fuckin did it again
Get a Shakespeare speed head for it at Low's.
Oh yeah and the black gas lines are crap get some of that new gas line out of that box and use that for the return line
Reverse the fuel lines. They are backwards.
I have the same one lasts forever
Ethanol gas man. Fucks everything up.
RECLAMATION NATION !
Wizard
clean the air filter
bloody things. usually clutch or coil. lol
Yeah you got lucky damn diaphragms wasn't toast
Just take the diaphragms out of the two lever carburetor and put it in yours
Now a tank of gas in that thing is worth more than the whole trimmer.
Chicken first they should be the same
broke bulb, no syphon
Hidden Carburetor Adjusting Screws On Some Weedeaters And Blowers
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How To Adjust Or Tune The Carburetor On A Weedeater
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That wasn’t even worth saving. Those angled weedeaters suck.
Dude, if you need content I can send you my Marshall to fix... this is kinda getting pathetic, Brad. I mean c'mon... we're refinishing old benches and fixing the latest dumpster dive find? You're better than this, Brad...
This was a great video. I love me a 2 stroke repair
Just wrap yourself up in a little box and ship yourself to him.
Let's see if he can fix you.
Scotty.....
silence.
Noise pollution Jesus, just get down on your knees and do the work manually.
QUIT THAT NOISE!
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