You're welcome, Paul. About a week ago I finally bought a starter that had been missing from a whipper snipper I've had for nearly a year, and tried to start it. No action. Checked for spark: there wasn't any. Scratched head: there was when I turned it over with an electric drill, a year ago. Tried a different spark plug: same result. Then I turned off the kill switch, and it started first pull, in a big cloud of smoke due to all the choking I'd been doing. So, you aren't alone in missing that particular detail at times.
I'll close this thread.
