Profile: Kineteco International Ltd. manufactures hand wound and mechanical starter motors. Our spring starters are bolt-on replacements for electric starter motors, enabling an engine to be started easily and safely by hand, without a battery or alternator. It can fire up engines from the smallest one cylinder motors to massive 15 litre generators. Spring starters are compatible with a huge variety of different engines used in many diverse applications from emergency generators, lifeboats, irrigation pumps to oil rigs and hazardous environments where electric starting is prohibited because of the potential for sparks to cause an explosion. Our range of starters includes Lucas, CAV, Simms models and Z-drives.