> 
> Unlikely that a motor shop will let you in the door with a starter. 

Indeed, the shop we used didn't even like to see me come in carrying one 5HP 
pump motor. They only did piddly little stuff like that for my boss because 
he knew the owner. The facetious intent of my answer was perhaps too subtle.

What you
> need to locate is another disappearing thing, an automotive electric shop.
> It'll probably be in the industrial ghetto with a faded Deka battery 
> hanging
> over its door. Take along a bottle of medical oxygen, the guy running the 
> place
> might need a huff or two.

Wha? Why to hear RC/TK talk, you'd think there was one in every village-- 
right between the cooper and the Newcomen engine builder!