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Sorted, fired up after 2 turns doing it the right way

When cranking I get a puff a white smoke, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right as I'm just turning like a mad man. After looking on YouTube I can see idiots like me just going round and round and then I see people with just 1 or 2 turns flicking the decompressors at the right moment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to start my thwaites dumper with a st2 engine as I have seemingly tried everything to get it to start with no luck, it cranks with the handle but I'm not getting it to fire up so I must ge doing something wrong. Any help will be much appreciated

I'm going to give my dumper a service this weekend and was wondering what type of hydraulic oil it takes, will standard modern hydraulic oil do or does it need some kind of mineral oil like LHM

Has anyone on here ever converted a hand crank dumper to key start, and is it expensive or easy and cheap

Can anyone help me identify the model and possible year of my new toy