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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">i was just remembering the same thing Don.</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, January 30, 2020, 06:00:15 AM PST, Don Hiscock <don.hiscock@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841"><div><div dir="ltr">I've had cars in the past, Randall, where I'd choose the shutoff point so it was pointed a bit downhill when I got back to it. We don't need no stinkin' starter motors!</div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841gmail_quote"><div class="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841yqt9186455304" id="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841yqtfd67085"><div class="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 7:57 AM Randall <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:TR3driver@ca.rr.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TR3driver@ca.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote class="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div class="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841yqt9186455304" id="ydp646364c8yiv2184134841yqtfd05381"><br clear="none">
> You're right! I forgot about the crank. But then you would <br clear="none">
> need magneto ignition when the battery was stone cold dead.<br clear="none">
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True, but very rarely is the battery stone cold dead (unless you left the<br clear="none">
lights on). With points (unlike many electronic ignitions), the engine will<br clear="none">
still fire at cranking speeds even with the battery discharged below the<br clear="none">
point where it's normally considered "dead". Lead acid batteries even<br clear="none">
recover (just a little) when sitting idle; so if the engine was running when<br clear="none">
you got home, there is almost certain to be enough left to fire the plugs<br clear="none">
the next morning.<br clear="none">
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But when I used to fight with the lack of generator capacity, many years<br clear="none">
ago, I didn't own a hand crank. So I got adept at push-starting the car by<br clear="none">
myself. Probably couldn't do it today, though.<br clear="none">
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-- Randall<br clear="none">
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