I've spent most of my hometime this week cleaning the fuel system and priming it, checking the oil pump, checking everything else that should move does and oiling or greasing it, and anything that shouldn't move was secure. I was already for a test flight but I still had no starting handle.
Then I got an email saying someone had a handle I could have, so a very big thank you to Mark Walker (Volvox Engineering) for sorting out a starting handle for me.
After getting back from work at 3-30 this afternoon I jumped straight in the vegmobile and thrashed over to Mark's house for the handle.
I thought I'd better not get too involved when I got back home as I hadn't really seen the family much this w/end, so I promised them I would just spend ten minutes in the garage, well I only needed five of my ten!
After doing all the pre flight checks I gave 'Old Bess' as I've named my CS, five or six turns and then moved the valve lifter/decompressor and she fired up straight away....Yee ha, I shut her down after a few seconds as the flywheels are quite close to the floor and she had a little wobble and I didn't want them to touch the floor and send her flying.
So I've got to get her stable then I can run her properly, oh and the frost damage before any lengthy running!
A stupidly grinning
Chug