Go electric... no starter needed.

Here are images of the plastic spinner on my Hot Stik that has well over 100 starts on it and the silicone starter cup on my Sullivan Hi-Tork.

I didn't even wipe off the spinner for the shot. A plastic spinner does not have to be buggered up.

No! Don't fall under the power of the Spark Side of The Force.

Then you're just trading the marks on the spinner for the burn marks on your worktable from combusting LiPos. Or your car, clubhouse and home if you caught the District X article in Model Avaition this month.

If they could make the reciever's and transmitteres run off of Nitro (or gas better yet) and I never had to recharge another battery this hobby would be perfect

Yeah! Gimmie that throaty propped chainsaw gasser sound any day. Even the little glow engines sound like they're accomplishing something.

Who wants to have a low pass with a big warbird zip by going "bzzzzzzzzzzz"? That'd be just humiliatin'

...........so true

that sttarter cone may be better, it has more material and could last longer than the other ones......that is if it works (starts engines) to begin with, i think it will if your starting 40-60 sized engines

Well, I put a ring on my spinner today. I put on a brand new Great planes Nylon cone, aluminum back on a Saito 91 I just rebuilt. The starte cup is/was a fairly new whie one. The engine is higher off the bench than I'm used to and one of my budies informed me that I was about 25degree down on the starter. The engine was giving me fits, glow plug, way wrong starting setting. Well, I about melted the nose off the spinner. After one cranking, when I pulled the starer back, there was a string of plastic cobwebs between the spinner and starter cone. It's still one piece, but the nose is really rough. Ifinally got it running and it is running well.


Don

I'll drink to that!

Magnetos forever!
Dave Olson

See Charlie P.'s post above with pictures.

Mine look the same as his after hundreds of starts.

You must use the softer silicon cones to prevent scratching.

This is what mine looked like today after one start. Sulivann Super hi torque on 24V and an argumentive engine.

Don

Yup, the starter cone is not gripping the spinner properly and is spinning, wearing the plastic.

Use a Silicon starter cone, keep it clean, get one that PROPERLY fits your spinner, and apply pressure and you'll be fine.

I see a lot of people resorting to "bumping" the starter cone into the spinner, this also causes undue wear.