Not all glow engines are difficult to start with a chicken stick. All of my OS 1.20 AX's and my OS 75 AX start, cold, with about three flips of the prop with the chicken stick.

Is the engine mounted up-side down or sideways? If so, it may be getting to much fuel. Remove the glow plug and rotate the engine using an electric starter. If a lot of fuel comes out, well, that may be the beginning of your problems.

A simple question here.. is the glow driver fully charged? Don't test it by pulling a glow plug off and saying the thing glows because that means just about nothing. Make sure it is fully charged (overnight at least) then try it again.

Get the manufacturer's manual on that particular engine. Read on how to initially set the needle valve, and try it from there. Usually, this is a tad bit rich, but it should still start.

Check the idle mixture too. It may have been fiddled with and open to rich. That one is a touchy one to set. A slight movement causes a lot of changes in the idle mixture. Just a short rotation is all that is necessary with this, and someone may have turned it either to much (to rich) or closed it to the point where it is starving for fuel at idle or close to idle. I can't tell you how to set this for initial starting because I've never had to adjust it beyond setting the right mixture for transition from idle to full throttle, and that was only an eighth of a turn or so. If it was messed with, you may have to turn it completely in and then find out how much to turn it out (richen it from 0 ) to get the right mixture for starting the engine.

Good luck.

CGr.