Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:17 am
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Thanks Ridders - I shall print that out and try it next time.
I have spoken to the maintenance people but will do so again. They (apparently) have no trouble. Their specific advice was:
1) Minimise any delay between priming and starting
2) Use both mags not one
3) Set the throttle to a tiny amount open rather than the 1/2" suggested in the manual as "this increases the venturi effect" - not sure that makes sense but I'll try anything!
But I didn't mean to hijack this thread. My point is more to comment on the very individual techniques each engine in the fleet seems to need to persuade it to start! And those techniques seem to be arrived at by lengthy trial and error rather than science, and then enshrined as magic incantations.
I have spoken to the maintenance people but will do so again. They (apparently) have no trouble. Their specific advice was:
1) Minimise any delay between priming and starting
2) Use both mags not one
3) Set the throttle to a tiny amount open rather than the 1/2" suggested in the manual as "this increases the venturi effect" - not sure that makes sense but I'll try anything!
But I didn't mean to hijack this thread. My point is more to comment on the very individual techniques each engine in the fleet seems to need to persuade it to start! And those techniques seem to be arrived at by lengthy trial and error rather than science, and then enshrined as magic incantations.