Holts Easystart 2 Cans Spray Car Boat Petrol Bradex Easy Start 300ml BES1A NEW

Good product only one tin arrived in packing but seller wouldn’t replace it

Now, I'm of an age where I remember well the coughing and spluttering of unreliable old British cars in the 1970's as working men tried to induce some spark of life into an old knacker in the middle of winter. As a child of that age my clear recollection of Sunday was of my grandfather and other men where he lived doing essential maintenance on their cars up to, and including, removing engines in the front street in the desperate hope their British Leyand junk would last the arduous week ahead. Part of this memory was of course the final desperate act of frustration on Monday when numerous frantic engine starts failed and that note of resignation meant that the glove box was opened and out was brought that most precious of items, the Sacred Can of Easy Start. Easy Start was both a blessing and a curse to those men. Firstly, it cost money and that was in short supply in the early 70's. Secondly, there was the long and widely held belief that once Easy Start was used once somehow the engine then would always need it to start, 'Because it got used to it.' God alone knows where that nonsense came from but most people seemed to believe it. Not that the engine had been assembled by chimps who had zero pride in making something that worked. However the blessing was that Easy Start worked. You could see the flash of joy that came over a trilby wearing grandfather when his car coughed like a half drowned 40 a day smoker and with gentle and then frantic reving brought into life the engine. Today that's not the case for cars but instead the same problems have been transferred to garden tools. The amount of arm wrenching pulling of my garden mower I'm sure has stretched my right arm. Often in winter you could find me bathed in sweat desperately hauling at a chainsaw or strimmer cord, tears of frustration pouring down my face. Fear not, Easy Start is the solution. Mostly. Just give the intake a good squirt and at least for the first few seconds your 2 stroke will scream into life. If you are lucky and you have the choke set right you might even keep it going.... The reason for these frustrations of course is the same as the misery my Granddad suffered fifty years ago. Cheap engines knocked out in some Far Eastern factory with tolerances that a medieval carpenter would be ashamed of. That means the merest hint of cold or wear and the engine is as much use as a paperweight. And that means you need Easy Start to inject some motive encouragement into the truculent tool. Bottom line is that Easy Start (or ether as it is) is a vital shed standby, required for the final acts of hope when once has to face the Wrath of the Wife if the hedge is not trimmed to her satisfaction...

Good buy, does the job

Great product, providing an easy means of starting a problematic engine.

As described

I sold this when I was a boy 1966. My first job. Sales assistant as it was then. So I reckon if it was still about it must be good. It started the lawnmower first cut.enough said...

Used this brand for years, no problems

Great