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Has anyone here ever started an engine using a Shotgun (Coffman) starter?
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:09 pm
Very common on tractors and aircraft up to the end of WWII
This post was edited on 8/4/25 at 1:11 pm
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Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:09 pm to Lonnie Utah
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:12 pm to Lonnie Utah
No
I bathe more than once a week
I bathe more than once a week
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:13 pm to Lonnie Utah
We need an old arse way to start engines board.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:15 pm to Lonnie Utah
quote:
Spin off Thread: Has anyone here ever started an engine using a Shotgun (Coffman) starter?
Apparently, the mods didn't like my pun and edited the original title...
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:18 pm to Lonnie Utah
quote:The mods hate "spin off thread" in a title
Apparently, the mods didn't like my pun and edited the original title...
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:20 pm to sidewalkside
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The mods hate "spin off thread" in a title
Yeah, but in this case, it was DESCRIBING how to start an airplane engine with a shotgun shell...
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:28 pm to sidewalkside
But if you start a spin-off thread, it'll get anchored if you don't put spin-off in the title.
Personal experience.
Personal experience.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:39 pm to Lonnie Utah
About 35 years ago I worked on an old ship that had this set up on the emergency generator. It was the final starting redundancy after electric(battery) and hydraulic failed. was a pain in the arse. Had to bar the engine over multiple times before you fired it. Worked and the inspector were amused and happy. I figured if I was using that method we were fricked.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 1:52 pm to Beachtiger
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About 35 years ago I worked on an old ship that had this set up on the emergency generator.
This board never ceases to amaze.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 2:01 pm to Lonnie Utah
Not me but my grandfather did and I was with him several times when he did use it. He had one on the 1940s something Fordson that my grandfather bought second hand in 1954. My grandfather used that tractor to grow cotton and later raised cows with it until he had a stroke and my uncle sold it for scrap metal.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 2:07 pm to Lonnie Utah
I've seen it in really old tractors. Its pretty cool.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 2:09 pm to Lonnie Utah
Seen it done live.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 3:31 pm to Lonnie Utah
Jimmy Stewart did it in "Flight of the Phoenix."
Even wasted a cartridge to clean out the cylinders.
Even wasted a cartridge to clean out the cylinders.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 3:38 pm to dazedconfused
Never heard of such a thing.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 5:19 pm to Napoleon
The church next to us growing-up had a old tractor they used to mow the property that started this way.
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