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Starter (engine)

A starter (also self-starter, cranking motor, or starter motor) is an apparatus installed in motor vehicles to rotate the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine so as to initiate the engine's combustion cycle. Starters can be electric, pneumatic, or hydraulic. The starter can also be another internal combustion engine in the case, for instance, of…

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a removable crank handle which engaged the front of the crankshaftinstance ofand human-powered techniques0.80text
pulling on an airplane propellerinstance ofand human-powered techniques0.80text
or pulling a cord that was wound around an open-face pulley.The hand-crank method was commonly used to start enginesinstance ofand human-powered techniques0.80text
but it was inconvenientinstance ofand human-powered techniques0.80text
difficultinstance ofand human-powered techniques0.80text
and dangerousinstance ofand human-powered techniques0.80text
Ladas often still supported crank-starting as late as the 1980s.For the first examples of production German turbojet engines later in World War IIinstance ofCommunist bloc cars0.80text
Norbert Riedel designed a small two-strokeinstance ofCommunist bloc cars0.80text
opposed-twin gasoline engine to start both the Junkers Jumo 004instance ofCommunist bloc cars0.80text
BMW 003 aircraft gas turbines as a form of auxiliary power unit to get the central spindle of each engine design rotatinginstance ofCommunist bloc cars0.80text
remote generatorsinstance ofTypically hydraulic starters are found in applications0.80text
lifeboat propulsion enginesinstance ofTypically hydraulic starters are found in applications0.80text

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