Chainsaw Repair

 So that said with the ability to shift the ignition trigger plate effectively it could be said to have mechanical timing advance .Clever .

  Well that makes sense .I've got a couple saws that try to jerk your arm off too .I have got nailed by little 029 and 049 glow engines  stung a tad . I'd imagine a large engine could break a finger if not worse .

Dad flew those airplanes with wire cables and running on some kind of alky smelling fuel back many many years ago. I remember him starting the bigger engines and the prop kicking back and catching his fingers.

I would think with those bigger RC engines there would be another way to start them now days?

Some of those little glow engines had a spring starter  which saved the fingers .

I don't know what was in the glow fuel besides methanol and caster oil .Lots of caster oil .

Ha the funniest story about those little engines happened about 50 years ago .My buddy had one of those maybe 1/2 cubic inch engines with a plug and a magneto that ran a wheel drive little race car .He fiddled and twiddled but could not get that thing to start .He finally  put rubber tape on his dads grinding wheel and spun the thing over and it started .

He was so proud so he had to show us .Fired that thing up and like a dummy put it in the middle of the road and set it loose .Zoom down the road at what looked like a 100 miles per hour .Went about 4 city blocks,hit a ditch and jumped over a fence into a pasture field never to be seen again .As far as I know by it heading south it might have made it to Florida .

I had one of those red white and blue dragsters that ran on a string.

I remember dad having one that looked like a very old indy style car with metal body and engine inside rear, antique. Guy I work with bought it off him in the 80's.  He was a antique dealer.