Cordless drill to start 15hp outboard

[Refueler]

Especially when it kicks back.

One think to remember about hand starting an engine as said you need a one way connection but you also need a hole in a support to locate the handle shaft to resist the sideways force on the handle.

Also starting a diesel needs enough speed to cause the air in the cylinder to heat up enough so the injected fuel will ignite. You don't need that for a petrol engine to start as the fuel is ignited by the spark plug.

With small diesel engines you decompress the cylinder then spin the heavy flywheel to get up enough speed so the energy will compress the air in the cylinder once you drop the decompression lever

I once stripped a Perkins 4/107 from a road sweeper that had all hydraulic drive. The starter was a hydraulic motor driven off a hydraulic accumulator.

I still have the motor and the pumps somewhere in my garage. Another project on the list when and if I get round to it.

Bealrus and Russian tractors such as I had ... the diesel engine was started by a small gasoline engine mounted on the side. It had a manual lever that disengaged the drive ... you pulled that back ... then if a more modern version like mine - it had an electric starter .. the engine started and when it sped up - it dropped the lever back and it engaged to spin the diesel over ... it was not designed to keep turning it for too long but it was not uncommon to have it turning that big diesel for a couple of minutes or so when really cold.
The original gasoline starter engines had rope cord ................. Seagull outboard style !

Here's the old style - imagine out in Siberia in the cold !! :

 

[rogerthebodger]

A lot of diesel trucks use a pneumatic starter as the truck needs compressed air to release the brakes.

And of cause aero piston engines used a cartage to start the aero engine.

 

[Refueler]

A lot of diesel trucks use a pneumatic starter as the truck needs compressed air to release the brakes.

And of cause aero piston engines used a cartage to start the aero engine.

Tractors .... cartridge start .... TVO / Parafin ...

I actually got to ride a PomPom tractor ........... big single cylinder job ..

 

[DownWest]

Tractors .... cartridge start .... TVO / Parafin ...

I actually got to ride a PomPom tractor ........... big single cylinder job ..

Field Master?

I am restoring an old Energic tractor. Single pot petrol, hand cranked, but with an impulse mag so the spark is retarded for starting. One time I got it going, after well over 20 yrs, it fired without any sign of kickback. Only third turn too. Now the paint job.. This is to work, not display, so the paint will be 'working'.

 

[Refueler]

Field Master?

I am restoring an old Energic tractor. Single pot petrol, hand cranked, but with an impulse mag so the spark is retarded for starting. One time I got it going, after well over 20 yrs, it fired without any sign of kickback. Only third turn too. Now the paint job.. This is to work, not display, so the paint will be 'working'.

Driven a Fordson Half Track as well ...... in fact it held the record in UK for steepest slope ploughed for many years by the guy who taught me to drive Sam Stringer.

 

[Freebee]

for larger diesels you can get a wind up spring starter
Spring Starters - SureStart

Other make of spring starter may be available!!!

 

[Don107]

A mate of mine lent me his yard man lawn mower and it had a lever on the handle that you pulled to stop the motor and as it stopped it would wind up a spring starter
The next time you wanted to use the mower you pulled on the same lever and it release the spring tension and wound the motor over to start it
You only had one chance to get it started and also if it stalled while mowing you had to use the normal cord starter
It had a lever in the top of motor that you could put in a locked position to stop the mower starting accidentally on the spring starter if someone pulled the lever on the handle

Regards Don