has points that wear about enough in one season that it will start to fire early, and when it does, it makes things pretty interesting.
See, I start it with a rope, most times, and when the points are worn they open a shade sooner, and it causes the engine to fire just a tad before top dead center instead of after, and the backfire can pull your knuckles back into the pulley.

So I tune it once a year, and since up until now I have been too cheap to buy a new battery (It usually gets a truck hand me down) it has made it much easier to start.

Still.

So Friday on the way home I used my phone to buy a battery and some cables at Autozone using paypal, and I got it all together Friday night. So nice to just push the button and start, I’ll tell you. Now I suppose I ought to go back to getting some work done with it.