adjustment on edger

[mstng86]

Long story short, I have a homelite weedeater and bought a used homelite edger from a guy that said he couldn't get it to run. I can swap the attachments I'd I want but I would rather just get the edger running correctly.

So, I can get it to start but it chokes out at wot. I wanted ti adjust the air/ fuel mixture and this is where I run into a problem. The adjustment screws are missing the caps that you can turn. It's just the bare screws. See below. The first one Is a pic of my weedeater with the a/f mixture adjuster (red and white). The second Is the edger with out the adjusters. How can I turn these screws without the plastic adjusters?

[Tyrone Biggums]

Pull the adjuster caps off of your string trimmer and use those to adjust the edger?

[mstng86]

I thought about that but I didn't want to possibly mess up the weedeater in the process and end up with two bad tools
Do they just POP on and off?

[Tyrone Biggums]

On my Echo stuff, they snap on an off. Take a pic of the good adjustment beforehand so you can put them back the way they were.

[mstng86]

yea, they aren't the same. I took it off the weedeater and it won't work.

reading up and I have seen they require a special tool to adjust. fucking bullshit on a cheap weedeater.

[Shorty]

Dremel a notch in them and use a screw driver.

[Tyrone Biggums]

If you can't slot them with a dremel, clean the area with brake cleaner, let it dry, get some #6 or #8 phillips head machine screws, put some JB Kwik on the tips and set them on the adjustment heads and hold in place until it sets up.

[juiceweezl]

My guess is the diaphragm is bad and the screws don't need to be adjusted. The ethanol in the gas is hello on 2 stroke engines. You may want to look at that first.

[Reefer Rae]

I adjusted the pacman screw on my ryobi power head with a small sharp pair of dikes . They are lean and gutless from the factory .