Engine starting without spinner
 

Ok, when I get my SE5A finished, obviously it wont have a spinner for scale appearance. So how would I crank it with my electric starter?

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

Pull your strating gone out, flip it, use the small hole, stick it on the prop retaining nut and go to town!

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

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thanks,

signed,

idiot.

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

I think he meant pull the starter cone out and flip it around. This should work fine. If not the back flip meathod will start almost any engine.


David

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

Clearly my fingers do not type my thoughts as razor sharp as I'd like sometimes. Didn't mean to make you feel like you've lost your mind ;)

Have Fun,

Sean

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

No, no, at first I thought there was supposed to be some sort of connector on the other end of the spindle at the BACK of the starter and I said "Wait a sec, I never saw anything on the back" but then I had a "duh" moment and remembered seeing a hole/slot sort of setup on the bottom of the cone and realized what you meant.

Good thing I did, cause I was about to start drilling holes in the back of my starter.

I don't think it would have worked though.

Thanks again,

Pete

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

They also make different starting cones with different holes in them. I use some of those when I don't use a spinner. Sometimes on the larger ones, the starter cone gets stuck on the nut and comes out when it starts, and then the engine throws it.

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

Sullivan makes a neat gadget- Bare Prop Adapter No. S635. This is an insert for your starter cone with fingers to contact the propeller blades directly. Go to http://www.sullivanproducts.com and click on Starter Inserts.

RE: Engine starting without spinner
 

If using a safety prop nut, chances are the big side of your starting cone will work just fine. That's how I start my saito 100.