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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
Starter motors "wear" with every use...use it 100-times more often and it'll wear out 100-times sooner. Mechanical wear is a function of usage.
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Actually I have found that to not be true at all.
When I was in the air force we had a lot of retarded rules that made no sense.
One of those rules caused busy flightline vehicles to be started between 40 and 100 times a day.
But the starters didn't wear out 40 to 100 times faster. They wore out maybe twice as fast for heavy duty trucks and maybe 3 to 4 times as fast on light duty cars and trucks.
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