Craftsman 532180338 Carrier Plate

I bought this to replace a plate that had a broken tooth that holds the cutting string. Within a couple of months, one of those teeth broke on this one. I broke the original one by bending it multiple times to remove jammed clippings. Having learned that little lesson, I never bent this one. It broke anyway.

Original broke. Purchased new one and it broke almost immediately. There is a definite engineering/manufacturing defect with this Craftsman 532180338 Carrier Plate

This Carrier plate design is inferior and is used on Craftsman, Poulan Pro, Husqvarna, wheeled walk behind trimmers.The plastic moulding around the shaft receiver is to thin, if you are mowing tall weeds any resistance will snap the fitting off the carrier plate. This one lasted less than 30 minutes, see photo.

It is cracked don't you guys look at stuff anymore I have to use this today cause of my neighbors are complaining to police about my weeds I cant return it if you people can ship it broken I can use it I guess this thing was already shipped back to you guys once cause you can see screwdriver damage to it you people still owe me another one cause it's going to break and I have to use it now

The product is of very poor quaility. I installed it and used it on very thin weeds and it last no more than 45 min before it broke.

This part was half price of the original, good product now our machine is up and running!

I used it on my walk behind Weed Eater brand trimmer. However the original spacer was too long to install it. I went to the hardware and bought 6 washers of the correct diameter and used them as a spacer instead of the original. Now it works better than the original that came with the Weed Eater Trimmer.

Sent it back & bought the whole tower assembly with bearing thru Sears for $100. My shaft on mine was all messed up from wear & tear.