Thanks for the offer Jerry. I actually bought a stick edger over the weekend. I was going to post, but been out working in the yard and in the house working on the computer after I managed to set the computer on fire after a hard drive crash.
Lowes had a 4-cycle Troy-Bilt (I know, MTD, but at least all of my current attachments still work) trimmer for $169 that included a free edger. They sell the trimmer by itself for $169 so the edger really is free (I know nothing in life is free
). Picked that up on Saturday. Started to use the cultivator on Sunday to tear some sod up under the end of slide on the new playset addition we built for the kids with the old Ryobi. Grabbed the string and pulled it 2 or 3 times as usual. Fired right up and died. Grabbed the string again
and the string broke. Just went to the garage and got the new one. Ran the little cultivator like a champ. I tore the old one apart, but I couldn't get the clutch out of it, but I did manage to get the string out. I tied a knot in it, but it didn't hold. I'll need to do it again and run it through the handle directly, but I believe I can resurrect the old one for a little more use yet.