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5 years 1 month ago - 5 years 3 weeks ago #199163 by cobbadog
Yes, that is the ones I have seen but have not seen of an inertia starter on a lawn mower as yet.




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5 years 1 month ago #199164 by Swishy
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Cobbadog
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RE: inertia starter on a lawn mower
May B thinkn of the wind up spring then trip the doolacky to start



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5 years 1 month ago - 5 years 1 month ago #199166 by Lang
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Swishy

Cobba is right, no inertia starter on mowers just spring loaded. But everybody calls them inertia starters. I will have to call my old science teacher but something in the back of my mind recalls a spring has stored inertia so maybe you are right also?

Lang

Here is a spring Inertia starter for diesel engines.
www.springstarter.com/
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5 years 1 month ago #199168 by Southbound

cobbadog wrote: I have seen rope starters, recoil, crank handle driving a chain directly to the engine and impact starters (wind up a spring and push down on the handle) but not an inertia starter on a mower. What one had inertia?



My favorite weird starting system is the Starter Generator type used on stationary engines. The starter motor drive is by V belt and switches to a generator after the engine is going.

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5 years 1 month ago #199169 by Zuffen
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Old DKW cars used a a Dynastarter as did quite a few small capacity marine diesels.

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5 years 1 month ago - 5 years 1 month ago #199170 by Lang
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Nearly all jet and turboprop engines have the starter/dynamo system.

Starters were first installed by Cadillac on production models in 1912, with the same system being adopted by Lanchester later that year. These starters also worked as generators once the engine was running, a concept that is now being revived in hybrid vehicles.
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5 years 1 month ago #199171 by wee-allis
Dodge had starter generators in the early '20s. An old mate had one adapted on his 1010 Talbot.

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5 years 4 weeks ago #199177 by Morris
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A lot of motor vehicle manufacturers, both in USA and Britain/Europe used starter/generators in the 1920's. They worked well and many are still in use in restored, or reasonably well maintained vehicles now.

The miniature railway setup in Eltham, Victoria uses 1920's Dodge starter/generators to power their passenger carrying trains on their about five-and-a-half inch or seven inch (I am not sure of the gauge) now. The locomotives are built to look superficially like old steam or diesel engines.

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5 years 4 weeks ago #199178 by cobbadog
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Cheers Swishy but 'ims not an inertia starter but a simple spring job.

We have a few vintage staionary engines and fortunately all crank up nicely. I have seen a few small starter motors off boats and mowers along with generators converted to be belt or friction drive to start engines. I friend of ours is now at the stage that he can not crank his engines to start so he uses the generator. One of his own club members went crook at him for using it as that person deemed it too dangerous to use in an engine compound due to the sparks at the brushes, which by tyhe way could not be seen and so was a fire hazard. Never heard of such B/S in my lifeso he packed his gear up and left the show.

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5 years 3 weeks ago #199181 by wee-allis
Here you go. By definition Inertia is the ability of an object to stay in a state of motion or motionless, where Kinetic energy is the ability of an object to store energy, so technically, the Federal starter is a kinetic starter. How is that for tearing the lid of the can.
My last apprentice was know as "Chronic Inertia". He had a complete Resistance to movement.

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