String trimmers

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I need a string trimmer clue. I'm talking about those Black & Decker electric thingums with a motor and a spool of plastic thread at the end of a handle, used for trimming the edges of the lawn. I had one that was a coupla years old, and it had a problem: instead of feeding more string when I bumped it on the ground, the string would cut off and no more would feed. I could unplug it, re-feed the string, and continue on for a couple feet more, before repeating the whole process. So I figured it was broken, and I bought another one. Straight out of the box, with the spool factory-mounted (so I'm pretty sure it's not on there wrong), I have exactly the same problem with the new device.

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I bought the aforementioned Grass Hog last year - the string feed works fine. No bumping required. Just used it today, in fact, and you could tell by listening to the thing when it decided to feed.

Not knowing anything about your model, though, I cannot speak to it.