Small, manual start, diesel generators - do they exist?

[Andy Champ]

Either ether or easy start will do. Suspect that's what TNP typed before his spiel chucker got to it.

Andy

[The Natural Philosopher]

ether, it should have read..

AKA Easy start.

[Huge]

Get some of the magnificently named "Start, Ya Bastard."

[The Natural Philosopher]

from the country that gave us 'sticks like shit'

[Dave Liquorice]

I wouldn't use easy start or similar without very good reason and a dire need to get the engine started. My little diesel genset has electric start and the battery is connected to a small solar panel (in the hope of) keeping it topped up. If the battery is flat, I can pull start it.

Easy start goes with rather more of a bang than diesel and can damage the engine, resulting in it becoming "addicted" to the stuff, ie won't start, ever, without "easy start".

[JimK]

indeed - I think it accelerates wear of/"proper shags" the piston rings and makes it very hard/impossible to hand start without a "sniff".

Cheers JimK

[Adrian C]

Aw, ye didn't point at the magnificently pictured "Start, Ya Bastard." Girls ...

engines, they do ...

[Clint Sharp]

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

I won a competition on their website just before Christmas and was gutted not to get a tin of the stuff as a prize.

[Clint Sharp]

In message , Dave Liquorice writes

Easystart tends to be used on knackered engines or engines with a fault, all it really does is enable the owner to ignore the fault until it gets to the point where the engine won't start at all unless it has a sniff of ether.

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[Jules Richardson]

Or brake parts cleaner as we used on one snowmobile engine a couple of months back...