B&D Strimmer - glue to hold on cassette mechanism

 I have and old B&D strimmer with a plastic cassette holder and an orange
cartridge for manual feed nylon line.

It ate a load of garden string and I had to take the black casssette off to
get at the metal shaft and untangle the string.

Now this is a reconditioned (allegedly by B&D) strimmer which was given to
me as a present by the in-laws so I have no proof that it was in original
condition.

The black holder prised off the shaft, but on investigation it didn't seem
to clip onto anything (although there are clippish bits under it) and it
seemed to have been glued to the shaft.

So - looks suspiciously like a bodge and not B&D original but who knows?

So does anyone know:

(a) is this the way the cassette holder should be fixed on
(b) if so, what is an appropriate glue to use?

Cheers

Dave R

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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 On 04/07/2011 12:37, David WE Roberts wrote:

Not of much relevance to your question, but in case its of use to
someone I will lob it in anyway!

I had a B&D autofeed strimmer once that used to drive me up the wall -
as every few mins of use the spool would fall off the motor shaft. It
looked like it was supposed to be an interference fit (i.e. friction /
taper doing the job), but never worked that well. So one day I attacked
it with a pillar drill and stuck a 4mm hole transversely through the
spool and the motor shaft and then uses a 4mm nut & bolt to fix the
spool in place. Worked fine after that!

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Cheers,

John.

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