Box one or both starters up and send them to me - - - -a USPS large flat rate box is about $18.00 and it's got a 70 pound weight limit. You really don't want to see the road service call from middle Tennessee I'd have to charge. I guarantee I can send you back a working starter for considerably less than the prices you're quoting.

I'll be in Tallahassee, working on modifying a custom grist mill sifter I designed and built in a couple of weeks. If you've still got a problem by then let's talk.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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