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Reading the post about cartridge starting got me to thinking of all the different ways that have been utilized for starting an engine conventional and other ways, what have I missed?

-Crank start
-Electric start
-Air start
-Cartridge start
-Energize attached generator for motor start
-Kick start
-Modern recoil rope start
-Old style wrap a rope around the flywheel and pull to start
-Foot pedal start
-Bicycle pedal Moped start
-Wind up and release spring start
-AC motor plug into 110 outlet (snowblower) to start
-Pony motor start
-Push start
-Pull start
-Roll down hill and pop the clutch to start
-Line up TDC, turn on ignition and hope to start
-Spin the prop to start
-Yank on the belt on grain auger and stand back fast to start
-Dragster style hand held blower starter
-Input power to PTO or belt pulley to start
-Jack it up and spin a tire to start
 
got most all I would say,, I have started a SC Case by turning the belt pulley by hand just to show I could lol I also can start my Polaris sleds that way if I have too if the recoil breaks,, had that happen on a used one I had just bought and was riding it the first time, but this way is sure not for the timid or weak to try
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A 2510 I bought last year is pray start.
You sit on the seat and pray it starts.
Every time I try to use that thing
something seems to go wrong with it.
 
(quoted from post at 15:30:02 10/25/18) A 2510 I bought last year is pray start.
You sit on the seat and pray it starts.
Every time I try to use that thing
something seems to go wrong with it.
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Wouldn't that be a "pray it don't start"? It ain't broke just sittin' there. ;)
 
I'd say you covered most,there are variations on lots of your ways posted.I used to help start a single cylinder hothead diesel for a man years ago.He needed my compressor to do it.He had a huge torch that heated the head,turned the flywheels to a certain point,and had me hold back something with a 6 foot bar.I'm not sure if I opened a valve when he hollered for me to let go,or I was closing one.It was a fun spectacle watching that startup.I used to start Muculloch 101 engines on racing go carts with a belt and a Ford starter clamped to a wheel dolly.I did have a Mack with an air starter on it once,when I pulled that lever every cat for a mile around would go straight up in the air.
 
One I don't see mentioned is the combination electric starter plus belt pulley twist. I think my little brother devised it way back when he
was trying to get a junkyard Cockshutt 40 going with a weak old 6 volt battery. It didn't have the power to spin the motor and would pretty
near stop every time a piston hit compression. So he engaged the belt pulley and pulled on that while standing in front of the right side
wheel pushing the starter button. Believe it or not, it worked. And many times after that. I've done it myself. Dangerous? Probably. But we
are both still here to talk about it without any missing parts.
 
You covered the list very well.

Had a guy once with a JD H said he could not get it started. It popped but would not run. I went to look at it and he devised a temporary setup that used an electric motor and a belt up around the flywheel. Seemed ingenuous ? He showed me what was going on. Seemed to want to run ? On a whim I kicked the electric motor loose from it's blocking and away that engine took off and ran fine ! The electric motor was holding it back ! LOL.
 
How do the new cars restart that shut off when you stop for a traffic light then restart when you take your foot of the brake. I had a rental that did that and I never heard the starter.
 
How do the new cars restart that shut off when you stop for a traffic light then restart when you take your foot of the brake. I had a rental that did that and I never heard the starter.
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Mom's Buick uses the belt-driven high voltage generator as a starter at the stoplight.

Growing up, Dad had an ancient Craftsman snow blower- about 12 inches wide, 3 hp Briggs. Got it included when they bought their first house. Recoil rope broke, so he would pull the choke, set the throttle and stomp on the steel auger. When he saw me doing that, or more likely came home to a clean driveway and knew how I started the blower, he fixed the recoil spring.

That was the first motor I ever rebuilt- he and I honed the cylinder, put rings in it, tore the carb all apart and cleaned it, some of the best instruction I ever got when I was about seven or eight years old.

Thanks for the memories, man, I miss him.
 
When young and foolish, I started a "B" Farmall with crescent wrench on the PTO shaft. I was lucky asnd the tractor started and the wrench fell on to the ground
 
(quoted from post at 12:13:32 10/25/18) How do the new cars restart that shut off when you stop for a traffic light then restart when you take your foot of the brake. I had a rental that did that and I never heard the starter.
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ome have the non-geared electric starter/generator built into the flywheel.
 
You forgot hydraulic starters,as on Olivers shipped to central Am, or some airplanes.They were hand pumped.
 
You got that right. Have seen it done and those guys are braver than me. The other is watching one of my neighbors starting his JD by grabbing the flywheel. Open petcocks, tiny squirt of gas, rock it forward a little, then back a little, and a fast forward whip that wheel around. POP! POP! POP!
 
Inertia starter. Heavy enough flywheel or drive motor and you engage a hand clitch to the engines flywheel. Here is a pretty good video of a model engine and it lets you see how it works.
inertia starter
 
NOT ALL PLANES INERTIA STARTERS...OUR RANGER 6 CY INVERTEDS, & MANY MORE MIL PLANES, USED CRANK 4 DIRECT DRIVE...ALSO, ECLIPSE MADE A 110V, MOTOR W/4 FOOT SHAFT, U STUCK IN BACK OF RADIAL ENGINE, INSTEAD OF HAND CRANK INERTIA...BE BLESSED, GRATEFUL, PREPARED,,,
 
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