Do Not Buy This Weedeater!

Published on September 30, 2005 By greywar In Gadgets & Electronics

Just bought this hunk of crap (Weed Eater Model RTE 115 "Twist and Edge") from Home Depot today. Got it home put it together (yes correctly) and had a sgood start on the back yard for about 5 minutes when the black plastic clip on shield just fell right off! On close inspection you can see where the motor simply got so hot that it melted the clips right off the friggin thing!

That black sludge is melted plastic. Taking it back later and getting a new model. This means I will have to wait to install the solar accent lights I bought for the backyard too dammit!

Save yourself a headache and don't buy this hunk of shit.

Comments

Hyperborean Wanderer

on Oct 01, 2005

I thought nothing could thwart your indomitable will to mow...

pseudosoldier

on Oct 01, 2005

If that weedeater even saw the SCIF yard, it would spontaneously combust. We lost a riding mower, two weedeaters and a motor pool push mower to "bad gas" this past month. The riding mower had barely survived SPC Ten-Year-Old Boy's attempts to destroy the blade on that odd iron plate with a handle we have on our grounds...

edit: HW needs to write an article.

fake edit: I need to call HW.

greywar

on Oct 01, 2005

I thought nothing could thwart your indomitable will to mow...

nothing can. I mowed it today.

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 02, 2005

In Sierra Vista? WTF do you need a weedeater for? I guess you could mow down the cactus and mesquite trees...............

greywar

on Oct 03, 2005

In Sierra Vista? WTF do you need a weedeater for?

I actually have a grass backyard.

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