[Public-List] Hand cranking an Atomic 4

[George Dinwiddie]

Another suggestion I've heard is DO NOT wrap your thumb around the 
handle.  Just use 4 fingers and palm to push the handle.  If the engine 
kicks back instead of starting, it's better to drop the handle than have 
it break your thumb.

  - George

On 9/15/10 4:26 PM, Daniel Michaels wrote:
> I have an old Taylorcraft that you had prop every time. No starter at
> all. The best thing to do is the same thing each time. You should
> have a checklist. ie: throttle back, mags off, prime, crank two
> revolutions, mags on, CLEAR, prop. The problem arises when it does
> not start on the first try and you start improvising. Go by the list
> each time.
>
> I would think the Atomic 4 would use the same checklist.
>
> Dan
>
> --- On Wed, 9/15/10, Gordon Laco<mainstay at csolve.net>  wrote:
>
> From: Gordon Laco<mainstay at csolve.net>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Hand cranking an Atomic 4
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all"<public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 2:25 PM
>
> The handle I bought this week is the same; I don't see much chance that the
> engine could give it a spin out of my hand.
>
> Regardless I kept my face away and made the starting torque a pull up on the
> handle rather than crouching low and winding it about.
>
> When the engine started it threw off the engagment part of the crank smartly
> and I was left with it in my hand, not connected to the engine.  It wasn't
> violent at all.
>
> That said - I'd still like to read how to do it 'properly'!
>
> Gord
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> On 15/09/10 3:15 PM, "Tom Moffatt"<tmoffatt at xplornet.com>  wrote:
>
>> On the hand cranking - when I had my Alberg 30 in the late 1970s I started
>> the Atomic 4 several times by hand. I think I must have had one of the
>> "factory-made" ones - The teeth were angled on the backside and there was no
>> problem with it automatically disengaging when the engine fired up - which
>> it did easily.
>>
>> Tom Moffatt
>>
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