[GreenKeys] WD-40

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Richard Knoppow wrote:

> The first cars my family had were equipped with hand throttles and 
> chokes. Had to know how to work those. Another feature of older manual 
> transmission cars is that one could use the starter to move the car. 
> Engine stops and your on the RR tracks put the car in low gear and work 
> the starter. Also can start cars by rolling down hill or pushing. Can't 
> be done on automatic transmission cars.

I once got water-logged in a creek, and used the starter motor to crank
myself out; I ended up blowing the side out of the battery...

-- Dave VK2KFU, who sometimes forgot to push the choke back in