At the auction a couple of weeks ago that I bought this rig at, a guy was telling everybody to kick the starter, and that it didn’t have any compression.
After I cleaned this thing up, she starts with the starter on the first revolution, you just can’t ask for any better. Even though the kick starter felt like it should, it wouldn’t start with it, and that sort of puzzled me until I got to looking at the way the compression release works, which I am not crazy about.

You have to be smarter than the machine, it starts easy with the kick start IF you follow thru all the way to the very end of the throw, to where it releases the compression release.
I really don’t see the need to use the comp release, so would there be any drawback to just unhooking it??