Tried and tried to start it with the home made electric starter in the crank hole. Smoke out the carburetor intake. Finally decided that the intake valve must be stuck. Not stuck, Removed the head and the leaky valve. Pretty buggered up looking. Got out the grinding compound. ( have grinding tools but the valve is already too thing at the edge ) Got out the electric drill and put flat screwdriver bit in the chuck. (Old timers knew I'd have to do this some day) Put the grinding compound on the valve contact point and on the valve seat in the block and ground away and away and away. Finally got the valve and seat to shine on both sides. Did all the other valves too. They were easier. Only one away! Put it all back together being sure to add about a table spoon of oil on top of the pistons. ( learned this trick many years ago when I was just a kid after about wearing out a starter on an 8N Ford because of minute grit on valves etc.) Put my electric starter back on and engaged it while hanging on and it sputtered a few times and started up. (rejoicing!) Poured by shelled corn into the hopper of the grist mill and finally got what I started out to do a couple of days before. (Grind my corn for the chickens) Boy am I tired!
Zane