Load your guns/keyboard. Here is one for you.

That won't work.

Consider these units "maintenance free". When it breaks, get another.

I go through about 1/year. I always buy same model. Occasionally, I can rob for a minor repair.

Karl

Crimp some close fitting tube (steel, copper, etc.) over the break, and braze it together.

Anything to do with heat is highly unlikely to be successful. The cable most certainly is heat treated-----and will be annealed by the lowest of temperatures-----well below brazing range. If a crimp works, that's the best shot you have at fixing the broken cable, but it has likely failed from fatigue, so other areas won't be far behind.

It's the American way, eh? Sell something that almost works, then sell them again and again. The suckers (consumers) won't know the difference.

We should be ashamed of ourselves here in the States----able to build good quality, but we don't. Not anymore.

Harold

If you priced out the parts at full ripoff (retail) to build one of those machines, it would eat a month's pay, or close to.

The flex cable is (usually) swaged square on the ends and pulls out of the driver and driven ends. The cable is spirally wound, with layers in alternating directions. A fix won't last.

Consider this. It broke. If you could fix it, like as not, it will break in another spot. Breaking in one spot is a symtom of the end of life for the cable.

I have a couple that have come my way, that I intend to pull the engines off of for other uses.

I suggest that you do the same.

Either that, or scrounge around and find another used one of same make and model and build a working (at least temporarilly) one out of the bones.

Life expectancy on a consumer model is about 25 hours of use. If you spend most of a grand on a pro brush cutter, it will last a lot longer. Look at a Husky 365RX Forestry Saw if you want to just buy one for this lifetime.

Cheers Trevor Jones

Well said.

TMT

I'd look at making or buying a sleeve that two screws are on one side - and the other side - and the wires feed into a metal tube. Tighten and paint the screws - finger nail polish is great - Make a light as possible - so it won't buck and wiggle.

That is what I would try, might not work.

Martin

Mart> I have a Toro weed whacker or whatever you wish to call it. I know what I

Thanks to everyone who took the time to offer suggestions. I will try the 'sleeve' method and see if that holds. This is not a 'cheapie' whacker.