 Hey YouTube, today we've got an issue. This is the recoil starting, starter rope. It's called a recoil starter. Guys might remember my old edger. It's the 1972. I sold the 73, got an issue here. It's tangled up down in. I've got this stuff here I wanna use, but we gotta get down in here and pull this out just like that. That's your handle. It's been in there for 72. So, on them blood thinners now man, if I so much as get, you have to be careful when you're doing that, cause these things will spin around cause there's a big spring in there and I'll be showing that to you here in a minute. We may have to bend these back. And if we do, that spring can come flying out so we gotta be real careful. Okay, looks like that's what we're gonna have to do. So I'm just gonna take a screwdriver and get inside of here. And I'm gonna bend them back and they come flying out. Well, I don't think, a lot of guys have trouble with them. Hard to put back in, but like I said, a lot of guys, man, they struggle. Let's see if we can get that root on the other side just like that, see? But this thing looks pretty worn. I shouldn't take it out. I don't know if I wanna do all that either. Part is part. Gilling with these roots, which I think I'm just gonna go ahead and take it out if I can show you that spring here in just a second. That'll sit down in there, see it wanting to come out. So I'm gonna take this rope. See, it's getting ready to break right there anyhow this rope is. Take this out here. I'm gonna go ahead and cut that so I don't forget. Grease, remember, picks up a lot of dirt. And this thing's gonna be out in a lot of dirt if it's ever used. I mean, I don't know if somebody's gonna use it. I will sell it. Somebody buys it. They'll probably, what they're going down here in Florida, they're building motorized bicycles. They're putting these little motors on bicycles. That's what the other guy, he bought one of them Harley-Davidson three wheel bicycles. And that's what he bought my other one for was a motor off of it. Just the two horsepower brakes. That white one, I sold it and he also was gonna do the same thing. He's gonna put it on a motorized bicycle. So I figure the fate of this one kind of ashamed to have these, you know, these tellers or not tellers but these edges are sitting around, you know and nobody using them really. Because there's no motors on. How do you got the edges now? It's just like a weed eater attachment, you know it's just, it's real small. It's light. Don't take up much space to haul them around. Sometimes these get a little crack in them. Back with you once I get all this old grease and grime, that's what it is. Once I get all this cleaned up, you get the idea. I mean, once I get this cleaned up, I'll come back with you and move this up. I'll probably just use a little bit of the transmission fluid I've got here because it don't take a lot. The spring doesn't look too bad. Usually they'll break right here or right here. But this one seems to be okay. That's what I'm gonna do guys. Let me get back with you here in just a minute. Okay guys, we're back. I cleaned most of this off. I'm pretty sure I know what's gonna happen to this. I'm just gonna buy it just to put it on a motorized bicycle. So I'm not, I'm not getting this real, I'm not doing a real, I mean, because these guys take these things apart and they'll paint them the same colors or paint their bikes or whatever. So somebody will probably end up taking this off and painting it and sand it down, painting it to match this bike and stuff like that. So I'm not getting too concerned about this outer edge. Mainly just concerned about that. So what I did was I cut me a length of rope. I used the old one there to kind of tell how, and then I went a few inches longer because in order to tie my handle on and to tie the knot to hold it onto the spool. So this is all I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna put just a little bit of, just a little bit of trainee fluid on there. Just give it some lubricant, a little bit too much. We'll dab some out of there. Now, what we're gonna do is we're gonna put the spring back in. See there's this end right here. Now it's gonna go down into that hole right there. So we're gonna do a little bit by hand first. Don't get frustrated with this because they will snap out on you every once in a while. So this, all you do is you put it in here like this and then turn it. Now this is the hard part. See, it keeps wanting to come out. This is the hard part. I'm gonna keep making it smaller so I can get it to fit down in there better. What you can do, I've done this before. When I get them real finicky, I may have to this time. A lot of times I'll put something around here to keep it from flying out so bad, but I have to. If I can get to see, that's how that goes, like that. Stuff down in there. That's locked into position there. Can you see that? I'm just gonna let it loose real easy, just like that. Bend these back over and break that piece of plastic. Well, plastic, let's call it a nylon. Push that down like that. A lot of times these tabs will break off, but they give you two extra because they know that's just gonna happen. So you just take that, straighten that tab out, put that, I just set it nylon onto that one, bend it over and then bend it down. I think it's gonna be okay. Now what I'm gonna do, clockwise like this, okay? There's a whole race. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring it around at least one turn, okay? Bring it around two turns and I'm gonna take my end now. Once I cut this off, I just took, no, I gotta wind this whole thing up, nevermind. Anyway, once I took this off or cut it off, I just took my lighter and kinda melted the end and made it so it doesn't fray out. So what we're gonna have to do is we gotta wind this as much as we can. I used to have a tool like a handle that I could wind this that I made up in Ohio. So I'm gonna wind it up pretty tight. I just, it'll go right there, okay? Now I'm gonna stick my rope through there. What you can do is you can put a clamp if you got a C-clamp, which I don't have one, in here to hold that from spinning on ya. Jam something in there, sometimes that works, but you still have to be real careful, see? Still wanting to go, but it does help. We're gonna put this string in through there and we've gotta get it up and out that hole right there, right by my thumb. Now, what you can do is you can put it on a piece of wire and pull it up through if you got a thin piece of wire, a mechanics wire or something like that. I may have to back it off a turn just to get it to line up better, just like that. You're finicky, guys, this is not, I mean, it's not hard if you got the patience, but if you don't have patience for this kind of thing, you can go make it. Sometimes you can go down through here, that's why I haven't put the handle on yet, and you can bring it out, see it coming out down here. See it right down there, and you can shove it through. Sometimes just whatever works for you, see it's starting to come out of that hole right there. Put it down in there, let's keep shoving it through now. I'm gonna use my little needle nose, and it won't fit, I should've got my smaller ones, and you can shove them up through there. If I can jam that in there, maybe it'll stay. See, it happens, let me get my smaller needle nose. Got these, they're not the ones I wanted, but they might work. Wrap it up again, I got you down kinda low, so you can maybe see it a little better. I got you also up on this end, so maybe you can see it a little bit better. And it should be coming out the other side. There it is, see it, right there. Now, this is where that seat clamp would come in handy, cause I gotta tie a couple knots on this so it doesn't go through the hole. Yes, this rope is a little bit smaller, but it's strong. This rope is actually rope from a window blinds, from an old set of window blinds. I don't throw this stuff away. I got some in the back of the truck for tying down stuff that we may have to haul. I've got, this was in my toolbox. Now let's go ahead and pull this out and make sure that knot's gonna be big enough. That'll be all right. Now we're gonna let it come back. Our T-handle back on, this goes up through here like this. I'm just gonna tie, there's no special knot, guys. If you can tie a knot, you can do this. We're not talking about square knots and sailor knots and Boy Scout knots. I mean, I tie a knot if it works and it holds, it holds, you know? Now we're gonna bring this up through here, about center of your little rod there. If you lose this, don't be alarmed. Get your nail, get your, you know, steel dowel rod or something. It'll work just fine. Make sure it's steel now. So it doesn't bend, but, and there we go. Now let's see, a little piece off. I don't have to, but, oops, sorry. Hate using a knife on this stuff. I'm afraid I'm gonna cut myself now. All right, now we're just gonna take our lighter, kind of mold it up there a little bit. That knot is not breaking, strattin'. Well, like, feel good, sorry. Like, a Tecumseh may be a little different. It's all on the same basis. These breaking strattin', that's how you do breaking strattin' from, you know, two horsepower on up to, you know, whatever. You know what I mean? Knees over two, just for extra. I don't like doing that. So, but I'm gonna put a little bit of, a little bit of fluid just around here because it does rub on them things, you know. Sure, this one's down, this one's down. We'll give it a couple pulls. Plus something, don't do that. Like when you start it, that's some good shit, guys. We're gonna put it back on the, on the edger. Not in this video, this is just how to restring this thing. Or, the same way if you put a new spring in it, just add that step. You're just putting a new spring in. Make sure you get it, you know, to where it's gonna wind up. You know what I mean? Counterclockwise, you see, when you pull that, turns it counterclockwise, like that. At least it turns clockwise, so. So that's all you gotta remember. So there you go, guys. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. Remember, Shea Bear, the mid-demand legend, gone for now. Bye-bye, guys. Thanks for watching.