Pull-Start Cord Knots
How to do-it-yourself instructional on selecting and tying the correct stopper knot when repairing pull-start cords. Demonstrates the half hitch, double half hitch stopper and figure eight knots. Today on Repairs101 I've got this really sweet piece of rope and I want to show you a few things I've learned over the years about how to tie knots. You need to know how to tie knots if you're going to do a repair to a pull start for instance. I'm tying stuff in knots every day and I imagine you are too. Once you learn 'em it's hard to un-learn 'em. I used to make my living as a Tree Surgeon and this piece of rope in particular was in fact my lifeline. So if you're replacing the starter cord, say, in your chainsaw or say your lawnmower or your outboard engine, your generator, or a leaf blower. The knots you want to know are stopper knots and the stopper knots are: this one, stopper knot, and also you can use this one, the figure eight knot. Now that's my favourite but you don't always have enough room for the figure eight knot to fit, they don't always give you enough space. So sometimes you have to settle for just a plain old half hitch and as long as it's tied correctly, it's going to be effective for you. If your pull cord rope has broken off like this one here has, before you reuse it, what you want to do is take a take a lighter and just start the end of it up like this and get it good and hot and then when it's nice and hot like that you want to just manipulate it like this ...
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