that nefarious instrument for trimming and edging the yard. I had just purchased this new one several weeks before and was in the process of performing an ‘operation’ on it—I wanted to remove the cutting line mechanism that came with the ‘whacker’ and replace it with an alternate mechanism in which replacing the cutting line would be much easier. But there were problems. I couldn’t get the original cutting head off of the weed-whacker and in trying to do so I basically mangled the thing. Now the