Re: Cultivators with electric start

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:37:25 GMT, please@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(WaltA) wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:59:56 +0100, Jupiter wrote:
>>Electronic ignition won't make it any easier to pull the starter cord,
>>though, because the older B&S engines have to be turned over at full
>>compression.
>
>Yes, very true. But electronic I think will get a spark going at much
>lower revs ? Thus reducing the need to perform gymnastics& & marathons
>and Wiley Coyote/ Road Runner performances whilst tugging !!
>Hmm now you have me thinking to a bygone era (B&S engined MerryTiller
>complete with recalsitrant points now mouldering away in a shed
>somewhere in the undergrowth) and trying to apportion energy between
>simply turning over and getting enough spin to generate decent spark,
>hmmm, yes, not sure.
>But you have a good "point" ,,argh,sry bout that :)
>Must ask OP to clarify which bit of the performance causes his failure
>to start :-))

You're right - like the old cars with starting handles. Sometimes
there wasn't enough juice in the battery to turn the engine AND fire
the plugs. One turn of the handle would often get them going, but
keep your thumb out ofthe way! Also good on a cold morning - got the
stiff oil moving first.
And then there were the old motorcycles with separate magnetos and
dynamos. I had one with no battery at all - fired up great on the
magneto and I had the lights wired directly to the dynamo. You just
had to keep the revs up when stationary <g>. Wouldn't get away with
it nowadays.
OP's got a dodgy right arm and can't pull the cord at all. That's why
he's looking for an electric start job. I've just remembered - some
of the B&S engines used to have a pre-wound spring starter. You wound
it up first then it spun the engine at your leisure. Don't know if
that system could be a direct replacement for the recoil starter.

.

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