[SEL] Senior Citizen needs help starting engine LOL.

[Keith Kinney]

Here is a neat engine starter I photographed at Portland several 
years ago.  It was made by the late list member Gary Morgan.
http://www.herculesengines.com/starter/

Keith
www.herculesengines.com





At 10:12 AM 10/5/2006, you wrote:
>An alternative to the Fero method of getting someone else to do the work is
>to make a starter.  There is a version of a Ford electric starter that has a
>shaft sticking about 4 or 5 inches out of the housing when all of the bendix
>gear assembly is taken off.  This can be fitted with an outboard bearing
>with a small rubber coated wheel between them.  This can then be mounted on
>the engine cart so that it can be brought to bear on the flywheel.  In
>operation the starter wheel is pressed against the flywheel, the intake
>valve pushed in and the starter engaged.  When the starter is up to speed
>let go of the intake spring and it ought to start.
>
>Have to do a little thinking here to make sure the starter goes the right
>way and linkage works out.  It will take a little work but not really a big
>job.  W.A.P.A. has a good sized FM that starts this way and it works great.
>
>Jim
>
>Jim and Diane Kirkes
>Hemet, CA , U.S.A.
>jd.kirkes at verizon.net
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <BillMil357 at aol.com>
>To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:42 PM
>Subject: [SEL] Senior Citizen needs help starting engine LOL.
>
>
>Hey Men,
>
>We are having our Fall show this weekend, so I got my 3 HP F/M engine out
>and trying to start it and did finally get it started (I will be 78 years
>old
>23rd of this month) and it is almost more than I can do to pull it over the
>compression stroke, my question is, is there any way I can  pull it up  on
>compression, then back it up until the Mag. trips and it will start, it has
>a  Type
>R Fairbanks- Morse Magneto on it. How about it Dave Rotigel, Judge Tommy,
>Keith Kenny and a whole bunch of you other good Techs. out there, can you
>help
>this OLE Tennessee Ridge Runner out.
>
>Have a good one,
>
>Bill Miller
>Memphis, TN.
>
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Keith Kinney
Evansville, Indiana  USA
www.HerculesEngines.com