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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3498421" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Its hand crank only. We had one when I worked at Smith Tool.</p><p>We had a little competition among those that used it to see how short of a crank it took to start it and you better have your fingers in the right position or you might lose one if it kicked back like some of the hand crank tractors of an earlier era.</p><p>I was the only farmer(had a restored classic tractor) that knew the trick so I won. It's a four stroke engine so you had to "feel" when it was just starting on the upstroke of the compression stroke. Give it a couple of priming turns while chatting to get fuel into the cylinder and at the compression stroke, give it a fast crank and it will start on 1/4 turn of the crank handle. Didn't win anything but bragging rights and the right to watch the new guys make two or three cranks and ask for help.</p><p>I wasn't a welder by profession but had to use one occasionally on the job. All of our welders were production welders that couldn't be released for maintenance work so we had to do our own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3498421, member: 5412"] Its hand crank only. We had one when I worked at Smith Tool. We had a little competition among those that used it to see how short of a crank it took to start it and you better have your fingers in the right position or you might lose one if it kicked back like some of the hand crank tractors of an earlier era. I was the only farmer(had a restored classic tractor) that knew the trick so I won. It's a four stroke engine so you had to "feel" when it was just starting on the upstroke of the compression stroke. Give it a couple of priming turns while chatting to get fuel into the cylinder and at the compression stroke, give it a fast crank and it will start on 1/4 turn of the crank handle. Didn't win anything but bragging rights and the right to watch the new guys make two or three cranks and ask for help. I wasn't a welder by profession but had to use one occasionally on the job. All of our welders were production welders that couldn't be released for maintenance work so we had to do our own. [/QUOTE]
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