ORIGINAL: Hossfly
Here's an answer for your problems. Anyway it has forever answered mine!
#2. Winter Starting. Take a small bottle or a 2-4 Oz. fuel tank. Fill with 1/2 glow fuel and 1/2 (there about) regular gasoline. Give a good Prime to your engine through the carb. Flip the prop several times and then light the plug. Unless you really flood it, the engine will start as if in warm weather. When I lived in Yankee-Land, that was the normal thing for winter flying. A few drops of Propelyne Oxide works well, but easy to flood and it's hard to get and store. The gasoline thing is sooo easy.
I just kept a can of either Ronsonal or Zippo cigarette lighter fluid in my field box. Prime the engine like nomal and then just put a couple of drops of lighter fluid in the venturi and the engine lights off just like it's summer.
Before I discovered that little trick, I almost succumbed to the temptation to get myself an electric starter.