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Mark Olson

Bill Putney wrote:
> Mike Hunter wrote:
>
>> Would the pull cord be long enough to start the motor from inside the car?
>> LOL
>>
>> mike
>
> Heh heh! I don't know if the big diesel manufacturers still do this,
> but when I was a kid, I remember being told (probably by my dad) that
> the Caterpillar scraper engines used small gasoline engines (with their
> own electric starter of course) to start the main engine. Not sure if
> the starter engines were one lungers or something bigger. I think also,
> in some large engines, electric motors spin up a flywheel to start a
> larger main engine (some WWII aircraft engines sound as if they use such
> a system).
>
> Theoretically you could probably transfer the total energy of a few C-
> or D- cells into such a flywheel system (or a large capacitor for that
> matter) over a minute or two - use them once, then throw them away. Not
> sure if a handful of AA's have the total energy necessary. "Give me a
> big enough lever and i can move the earth."

Google for "Coffman Cartridge"

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