Strimmer

Roy_H

Member
Please let me know how yours is for vibration with various heads.
I have lots of different heads for my FR130T , metal blades, plastic strimmer heads plus a hedgecutter and blower and vibration has never been an issue. The only thing l find is that l always keep a spare flexible drive shaft handy, they do tend to go after a while ( No matter how well you keep it lubricated) and often when you least expect it.
 

Danllan

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Location
Sir Gar / Carms
I have lots of different heads for my FR130T , metal blades, plastic strimmer heads plus a hedgecutter and blower and vibration has never been an issue. The only thing l find is that l always keep a spare flexible drive shaft handy, they do tend to go after a while ( No matter how well you keep it lubricated) and often when you least expect it.
Hmm... I think I'll take mine back to the seller, Riverlea, and ask for their opinion on it...
 

Roy_H

Member
Hmm... I think I'll take mine back to the seller, Riverlea, and ask for their opinion on it...
When l say no vibration issues l mean if it does vibrate it means there is something amiss (e.g. l am using the polycut head and one of the blades has snapped off causing an imbalance ) Otherwise its fine.
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
When l say no vibration issues l mean if it does vibrate it means there is something amiss (e.g. l am using the polycut head and one of the blades has snapped off causing an imbalance ) Otherwise its fine.
Yes, that makes sense, but the degree of vibration on mine is agonising even when it has a new tri-blade on it which is perfectly balanced...
 

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
My teamm use an Echo strimmer about 30 hrs a week for 25 weeks a year at work swinging fairly large diameter cord at longer than normal length (cord cutter removed) and it is a great machine though a little heavy to carry when not on the harness.
The only time we get vibration at work is when the lads omit to grease the head, then when the input shaft goes dry it wallops the outer tube without any damping and the head rotates at idle.
A decent strimmer should be a 'buy well-cry once' item. Cheap strimmers are unreliable, unpleasant, underpowered, frustrating rubbish. Strimmers are like sheds, once you've had one for a week you realise you should have bought a bigger one.
 

Roy_H

Member
Finally arrived

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First thing I notice.....and was hoping for :sneaky:..... that the flexi drive is square on the end.......my box of Ryobi and eckman strimmer tools are square drive :whistle:

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Bingo! The Ryobi tools fit straight in.....just the retaining tab needs some "adjustment"

Eckman tools need 0.5mm lathed off the outside of the shafts then should fit!
My old FR130 started giving me problems ( Mind you it had done a helluva lot of work ) so l treated myself to a new FR131T. I really like it and joy of joys, they've ditched that horrible fuel filler cap and gone back to using a 'conventional' screw cap again.
 
My old FR130 started giving me problems ( Mind you it had done a helluva lot of work ) so l treated myself to a new FR131T. I really like it and joy of joys, they've ditched that horrible fuel filler cap and gone back to using a 'conventional' screw cap again.
Is that one of those flip up and twist caps like they fitted on my chainsaw for fuel and oil? I have had a few issues with mine coming undone.
 

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