Thanks everyone here for sharing, I have tried all your suggestions. I have searched everywhere and it appears this is the only video that helped me. The spool cover is jammed due to the residue stuck from the dirt. I washed off all the debris along the groove that separates the cover and and the base with water. There's 3 protruding vertical ridge along the spool cover. Press on these ridges and turn anti- clockwise and at the same time try to pull the cover off. If this doesn't work, the last resort is to use a flathead screw driver and slot it into an indented hole that is located next to the vertical ridge inside the groove and then lever the cover up. The hole should be visible once you turn the spool cover anti clockwise. To reattach the cover back to the base, you need to push it down and turn clockwise to snap it into place
For the last 18 months I've not let the lawn crew edge or use a weed eater in my back yard. ru-vid.comUgkx_rBCFuDW1zD6blTGhLkvAkxU657uR_lG I didn't like the fact that they just kept cutting the edge of the lawn further and further from the rock lining the flower beds and leaving bare ground. And the grass was trimmed or scalped several feet around trees, etc. It was a constant battle with them so I told them to just mow and no trimming. I have Zoysia grass so it grows pretty slow. Obviously after a while it could use some trimming. I'm in my 80's so I can't do much of it myself.Finally I decided that if I could find a lightweight battery powered trimmer I might be able to do some light trimming. I decided to buy the LST201 20V trimmer. And it works great for my needs. I have back yard with about 150' of flower beds and several trees to be trimmed. I can lightly trim the whole yard with a single charge! The grass I trimmed was only a few inches high but the trimmer was more powerful than I expected.
I just got mine open after about 45 minutes of struggling. In the end I pushed a thin mini-screwdriver down the side of the cover next to one of the tabs and levered the thing out by a combination of finesse and brute force, and was able to examine it and identify the problem. To open "correctly": (1) Hold the base plate steady. (2) Apply pressure to the sides of the spool cover at the three points marked with arrows. (3) Whilst maintaining that pressure, twist the cover anticlockwise about 20 degrees. (4) Lift the cover off. And if you can manage steps (2) and (3), you either have a much stronger grip than me, or you have a deformed hand - because I can't put pressure in all three places at once, let alone then twist the cover. The problem: Basically, the design is awful. As you'd expect, the arrows mark the locations of three tabs that rotate in a horixzontal groove to kee the cover in place. What you can't see is that those tabs are shaped a little but like a "winner's rostrum", with extra tabs on their edges. Those click into gaps in the rim of the base plate, locking the cover in place until pressure is applied to lift them out of the gaps. But the plastic is pretty stiff, so quite a bit of pressure seems to be needed. I have no idea how the average person is supposed to apply the required pressure one-handed, let alone then also twist the cover. If anyone works out how to do so, PLEASE let me know!
I had trouble opening mine this video does not help at all, after alot of fiddling u have to squeeze and twist and top pops off hope this helps others!
@@lesleywurwal8805 I figured out. The cover is jammed due to residue from the dirt. I washed off all the debris along the line that separates the cover and and the base with water. There's 3 protruding vertical ridge along the spool cover. Press on these ridges and turn anti- clockwise and at the same time try to pull the cover off. If this doesn't work, the last resort is to use a flathead screw driver and slot it into an indented hole that is located next to the vertical ridge and then lever the cover up. The hole should be visible once you turn the spool cover anti clockwise. To reattach the cover back to the base, you need to push down and turn clockwise to snap it in place
