{"id":255,"date":"2014-11-08T15:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/?p=255"},"modified":"2014-11-08T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:21:49","slug":"troy-bilt-tb475ss-trimmerline-unwinds-when-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/troy-bilt-tb475ss-trimmerline-unwinds-when-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy-Bilt TB475SS Trimmer<br\/>Line unwinds when run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem is that when pressing the trigger the line will just run out around the outer spool.<\/p>\n<p>First steps are\u00a0to cut the mangled lines and remove the bump button and\u00a0the inner spool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-251\" src=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7422-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7422\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7422-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7422-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7422-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pushing down on the white plunger and using a small screwdriver we can remove the e-clip:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-252\" src=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7425-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7425\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7425-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7425-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7425-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can then remove the plunger and the spring. A retainer can then be removed using a small snap ring plier (thin tips) and the slider can come out.<\/p>\n<p>In our case the slider is damaged, the tab that runs against the spring is broken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7432.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253\" src=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7432-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7432\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7432-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7432-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7432-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we can see that one spring is missing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7428.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-254\" src=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7428-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7428\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7428-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7428-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_7428-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Replacing the slider with a new one and adding the missing spring fixes the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem is that when pressing the trigger the line will just run out around the outer spool. First steps are\u00a0to cut the mangled lines and remove the bump button and\u00a0the inner spool. Pushing down on the white plunger and using a small screwdriver we can remove the e-clip: We can then remove the plunger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[34,36,5,37,35,33],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-tools","tag-edger","tag-garden-tool","tag-repair","tag-tb475ss","tag-trimmer","tag-troy-bilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericjoannes.com\/fixedit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}