Starter box or the wheel?

[jon2]

Ok I am in need of a starter box. In a vid of a twin engine MT there was a starter wheel that was manually held to turn the flywheel. I know there is an airplane set up like it but does anyone know of the mod or way to use the wheel with a cordless drill? Hope I didn't completely confuse anyone. If so, I am sorry.

Jon

 

[gutterboy]

I know what your talking about. I think you can by a part that goes into your drill and you can put grinding wheels and other stuff like the wheel you was talking about the guy was using to start both of his engines. Go to Home Depot or Lowes and go to the drill section, I am sure you will find what you need.

 

[jon2]

do you have any pictures or maybe some link to one? Thanks Gutterboy!

Jon

 

[gutterboy]

Are you talking about the piece to fit the wheel on then stick it in the drill. If thats whats your wanting I have several of them. If you want I can send you one.

 

[jon2]

yeah the whole thing minus the drill. I need a good idea of what to make or buy so I can have that and my drill instead of the starter box.

 

[Waste Land]

I know what your talking about jon. I have one. Except its for a airplane starter not a drill. My dad has one of the 12 volt airplane started witht he rubber noce piece. It's a thick rubber wheel that fits over it. You can buy them at any Hobby Town USA. I'm seraching for mine now(we put it away after we got the rotostarts, never worked too good on the buggies anyway) I'll have to try the outside shop and see if it's there.

 

[Rolex]

Get a length of threaded rod, (1/4x20) some lock washers and nuts. Then go to the LHS and get a hard rubber airplane tire with an aluminum rim. This would be a tail wheel for a tail dragger. Main gear tires are hollow or foam, and won't work. Get a fairly large one. The small one would not rotate the flywheel very fast.
Drill out the center of the hub and use loctite to mount the washers and nuts to hold the wheel at the end of the rod.
Crank the other end in your drill and go for it.
It's unlikely that you could find anything in a hardware dept. since rubber wheels aren't used for buffing or anything else that I can think of.

 

[bill61]

I use the hand held starter that you are talking about, not the drill. It works fine on buggies for me, I have never used a starter box. If you don't want to carry batteries, they make a hand held starter that has batteries in the handle. With it you will be cord free. Tower hobbies sells them, probably in the airplane section.

 

[gutterboy]

You can find them at hardware places like home depot and lowes all day long. I got mine from work. All he needs is the rubber wheel you are talking about.

 

[Skyline Racer]

yeah ^^^