After raising a complaint with IAME and MSA about the ongoing IAME starter failures, I have had an exchange of emails with IAME UK and Italy and have received some useful clarity about proposed improvements and assurances as follows:
....we are investigating the following to improve all aspects of reliability:
-Increased specification of pull rope this is in production and all older ropes have been changed under warranty
-Clip to replace knot in pull rope this will be available as replacement part and in production from 20th April
-Tolerance between pawl and location bush this is testing , and will go into production after it's evaluation
-Location tag for recoil spring this will go into production 20th April
-Diameter of pulley to allow more rope to be held this is in consideration to find best solution
- Pulley wall thickness this will go into production 20th April
I understand your frustration but as you can see and hopefully understand, we are actively working on the recoils as a whole, are normal time from design modification to production is in the region of 5 week with the prototype version being used for 3 of those weeks. All of the above are to enhance the recoil unit reliability I would like to reassure you that when the new parts are available we will of course replace any of the older failing parts under warranty.
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IAME recoil starter problems - UPDATE by 'OilyHerb' << You are here!
