My Weedeater brand weed eater snapped a cable once ...the replacement part
cost 80% as much as a new unit. To the trash can it went. Then I bought a
professional grade Echo brand weed eater, and the fuel line from the tank to
the motor rotted out and leaked air by the next spring ...don't ask me why.
It's been sitting in the corner of the garden shed ever since and I've been
unwilling to invest in any more weed eater type things. Are they all made
in China or what? Off my pedestal ...the mention of a snapped cable
reminded me of the quality issues that I had.

See Item #7249455111 at eBay ...plans for a dual-weed eater powered ice
sled. Maybe it has ideas on how to convert the weed eater to something that
drives a prop?

Brian


"t" wrote in message
news:Qspug.196424$IK3.127238@pd7tw1no...
They have all sorts of sizes of thrust washer bearings at my local farmer
parts stores, I dunno if I should go with a teflon thrust washer or metal
type roller bearing washer. I will continue my search, as I am sure there
must be some sort of kit, if not I will surely post what I did and used. I
know about the noise issue of course, this will be my last worry, as I
just
want this motor to get me up a backwoods stream about 30 miles, if the
drive
snaps or anything like that I don't mind as long as I most of the way up
the
stream, coming back is the easy part where I will be using this!

"platapus03" wrote in message
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"Brian D" wrote in message
...

Others have done it. Have you tried a web search? I saw pix and video
somewhere...

Someone
else mentioned that these short-stroke little weedeater motors run high
speed but don't have torque for running a boat around the water... just
enough to cut the weeds with a string.

Very true. And what will you do for a 'thrust bearing'?