It'll start fine by hand, next time your in the hobby shop you could get fancy and look in the R/C car section, they make a little stopper assembly for priming and killing car engines, just plug the muffler with it, or you could just get a 1/2" dowel and taper the end like a plug, stick that in the muffler and flip a few times. At least you wont burn your finger. I run dubro silicone diverters, so all I do is pinch off the silicone tube and give it a few flips to prime, you'll usually hear the fuel getting sucked into the carb, that's the signal to stop priming and flip it a few more times with your plug out of the muffler and then go ahead and connect the glow driver and flip just once, it usually will always fire.