Mounting The Cutting Attachment - Stihl FS 55 Instruction Manual

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Mounting the Cutting
Attachment
Preparations
Lay your brushcutter on its back so
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that the cutting attachment
mounting face is facing up.
Mounting hardware for cutting
attachments
The mounting hardware supplied
depends on the cutting attachment that
comes as original equipment with the
new machine.
Mounting hardware is not packed with
machine
Only mowing heads can be mounted.
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4
5
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2
Pull the hose (1) (protector for
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shipping) off the shaft (2).
Go to "Mounting the mowing head".
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If you want to mount a metal cutting
attachment in place of a mowing head,
you will need the following additional
parts: Nut (3), rider plate (4) and thrust
washer (5) (special accessories).
Mounting hardware is packed with
machine
Mowing heads and metal cutting
attachments may be mounted.
If the parts are packed with the machine
Pull the hose (1) (protector for
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shipping) off the shaft (2).
The nut (3), rider plate (4) and thrust
wsher (5) are in the parts kit supplied
with the machine.
Go to "Mounting the mowing head"
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or "Mounting the metal cutting
attachment".
If the parts are mounted to the gearbox
Go to "Removing the mounting
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hardware".
Removing the mounting hardware
Block the shaft – see next chapter
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on "Blocking the output shaft".
Use the combination wrench (6) –
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comes standard with machine or is
available as special accessory – to
unscrew the nut (3) clockwise (left-
hand thread) from the shaft (2).
Pull the thrust washer (5) off the
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shaft (2).
The rider plate (4) is in the parts kit
supplied with the machine.
FS 55, FS 55 C, FS 55 R, FS 55 RC