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DCIV
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New tool

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Kart starter

Many of you may not know or may not have read but when I first got the karts I needed a dedicated starter for it. Seeing as how when they were racing these things battery powered drills were not a thing. So they used these huge hand held starter, battery, carrying thing.

If you use a drill when the starter tool then when it catches your wrist is lucky to survive. I tried to add a ratching adapter like you would to a breaker bar but any movement and it would switch to neutral and bam, your wrist.

Until I made this.

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This is a tap ratching tool. Has a physical switch instead of a twist one on the socket.

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Taken apart

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A swivel I didn’t need already punched apart.

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So close to fitting with no work.

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Looks like it’s almost made for it.

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With just making it so it fits through.

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Drive cut down

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And all together.

Still need to make the other side fit in the drill but that’s pretty easy.


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Ah yes, this is a nice invention. Try it out yet?
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ChargerX3 wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 4:44 pm Ah yes, this is a nice invention. Try it out yet?
Did put the 10mm long allen head I use to start it and did it by hand. Haven’t turned down the end to go in the drill yet.


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How's the tooth count. I would be worried with low tooth count and it still wanting to grab a little.
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You know I don’t know. I just know this one will not switch directions when it turns and I can swap end, unlike the real starters, so if I end up using it on 4 strokes or different things all together I have an option.


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