Use two 10' pieces of line. You line up the arrows, insert the line and push it through until it comes up out of the spool, then bend the end down and stick it in a hole for that purpose. Repeat on the other side, then wind the line onto the spool. I went back to Home depot this afternoon and got an E3 plug for the Ryobi - it makes a lot of difference. I've learned something with these plugs - an engine can run okay but the plug can still be marginal. I'll never again let plugs run year in and year out like I've always done (except for the E3s, of course). From now on I'm replacing the regular plugs every couple of years regardless of how good the engines run. When I pulled the 12 year old plug, it looked very good - no carbon build-up or obvious electrode wear. It did look a little close, and I couldn't get my .025" gauge in it. I opened it to .030", put it back in and it ran worse. That was all I needed to make me go get a new plug. The Ryobi was running great with the trimmer head, but with the blower head it had dropped a lot of RPM compared to a couple years ago (takes a lot of power). Sounds like it picked up a couple hundred more with the E3 and throttle response is now instant.

I don't watch much tv-- but bf and I follow at least one show a season so we can watch "together" while he is still a number of states away. Here are some we've enjoyed this way-- or binge watching when together. OH.. and we are similar.. dramas or GOOD comedies. Dexter Homeland Detroit 187 The Killing Orange is the New Black (netflix only) Sherlock (BBC) Downton Abbey (he likes it too) West Wing Homicide Prime Suspect (BBC) Pushing Daisies Scandal (this one is just mine-- but it started jumping the shark last season) Parenthood A few oldies but goodies.. Northern Exposure Homicide Six Feet Under Any BBC show with Robson Green

dedtired- Some new, flat panel tvs already have the electronics built-in to stream without needing to get an accessory box like Roku. If you do get a flat panel tv that doesn't have this capability, then you buy a Roku box. The Roku box is just one more device hooked up to the tv: think of it as a DVD player, except it streams the movies rather than plays them from a disc. Basically, what it does is pick up a signal from your Internet router and streams a movie from the router to your tv. On the back of the tv are a number of inputs, so you have a cable that goes from the Roku box to one of these inputs. When you are watching regular cable tv, you use your regular remote; when you want to watch a movie with the Roku box, you switch your tv over to the appropriate input source and then use the Roku remote to navigate, select a movie, and to start and stop it. The Roku remote is very basic. When you are done with the Roku movie, you use your regular remote to select the input that puts you back on regular cable. Does that answer your questions?

We had to add a Firestick to a smart TV because our smart TV was not able to update so that we could add the apps we wanted. Its an older (7 years) smart TV that came with a few apps. I bought a smart tv and a few years later it would no longer connect to my home wifi. Tried everything, ATT my carrier couldn't figure out the problem. So I finally called one of my engineering alumni who is a senior tech mgr at the tv manufacturer. He explained that indeed, the television makers do not continue to upgrade the software so at some point smart tv sets go dumb LOL I used roku for streaming apps quite happily for awhile along with UVerse from ATT for tv. That was fine till last Christmas when UVerse and our wifi went down on Dec 22 and were gone for a full week(!). I was already planning to cut cable at some point since UVerse is no longer a supported product thus no more annual phone call where you threaten to cancel and they lop off a third of the monthly cost. Price was ridiculous and I just needed a nudge to cancel. Ended up with XFinity (Comcast) wifi that came with several free apps including Peacock for a year. I was already a Hulu customer so I signed up for Hulu Plus Live tv ad free. It's not cheap at $90/month but UVerse was $150/month so I'm still ahead. I may go down a level or two on the Hulu because I don't think I need ad-free. Didn't realize you can record shows and FF through ads on replay which is how I watch 99% of my television. I like it ok, it's sort of a pain to get to things like local/national news on Hulu with a series of clicks and slides but overall I'm glad we are finally cable free. The XFinity wifi is a lot faster than the ATT wifi although we still get occasional buffer pauses.