There were several versions of those wind up recoils,two come to mind.
One style you would wind up the handle and there was a little knob on the side that would turn to release the stop pin in the flywheel, there was another kind that after you wound up the crank, you would fold the crank back in place and pushing it down would release the energy to spin the flywheel.
----got one of them here in the barn somewhere.
First that I remember "tinkering" was helping my dad do the valves on a '40 Plymouth 6 flathead.
It was maybe in '50 or '51, I was about 5 or 6 and my little figures were just
the right size to put the little valve keepers under the springs while he released the homemade c clamp that compressed the springs.
That '40 business coupe wound up being given to me by dad as my first car
10 years later, wish I had it today.
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