It actually has a new design where you don't take it apart to restring

You essentially feed the sting through the trimmer head and pull it so there's about a 4' tail on either side. Then you "wind" the string onto the spool. Echo (and probably some others) make replacement heads that function the same way.

In response to this post by VTScanlo

Posted: 09/29/2020 at 2:11PM

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It actually has a new design where you don't take it apart to restring -- VTSnake 09/29/2020 2:11PM

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It actually has a new design where you don't take it apart to restring

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