david mccandless wrote:

Hi y all,
in the search for reduced weight, it seems to me that even a single
rotor engine could not use a smaller starter motor since it is all about
torque required to overcome the compression load as the rotor approaches
TDC. Paul, you said that Klaus S (LSE) has no problems with the
Armstrong starter, does he have a 13B installed and what is your opinion
on not fitting a starter and hand propping 13Bs? I've hand started the
Stinson a few times, its no big deal, but I don't like doing it alone
with nobody in the cockpit; I always think that sometime, somewhere, it
will get me. A couple a times a year, I read that somebody gets struck by
a prop, while handstarting. The VW bunch do it all the time. Dave McC

No Klaus's engine is an O-200. My mind is still not made up on hand propping a geared 13B.
See my extensive previous message on the subject of setting up the ignition
and fuel injection. Much depends on that.

Paul Lamar
 
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