sometimes the ball bearings in the recoil that engage when you pull the rope will stick if the get dry, or sometimes to greasy, and wont engage. I say pull the engine cover off and inspect the ratchet part on the engine crank end, bet it turns both ways, or is broken.If the rope feels fine, then probably nothing wrong with rope/pulley and cover, unless some way the squarish hole that engages the crank end got rounded out.

If I recall correctly, astronaut Chris Hadfield would only do the song with this version where Major Tom doesn't die.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

I started Part II It seems that I am having to use a different method this time, but that is not unusual. Link to Part II

I was sending emails to one of the originators of the music threads here to give her suggestions for new topics, and she told me to just post the topics myself. For a while, we alternated starting these threads, and then she decided not to post here anymore, which left me as pretty much the main person initiating the threads. She had kept a list or topics, including proposed ones, and emailed that to me when she decided to stop participating. EltonJohnDenver also started quite a few, and then she seemed to stop posting here as well, although I have no idea why. As I said earlier, this all started on Hot Topics, and the threads were always started early Friday evening by whoever happened to have an idea for a new theme. There were a lot of disparate people posting on that forum before it got banned (for contentiousness), and a larger percentage of them were men, compared to KT. I started posting FNM earlier in the day so that people would have more time to post videos while it was still Friday, but since the threads usually lasted through Saturday and Sunday, I started calling it Weekend Music instead but kept the acronym for archival purposes. A couple of times I did not post anything on Friday, and some people seemed disappointed, and so I decided to keep it up. I don't in any way own this topic, and so anyone is free to take it over. Carol, no one has posted those songs before, although I had thought that someone had posted the Kinks song, as it was one that I had also thought up - but neglected to post. I guess I will start Part III now - I did not expect this to get this far.