Hubnut,
I got caught up watching some of your videos since you first posted.
They are quite entertaining!
If you don't mind me asking, how and why does Hagerty support you?
I think that just a bit cleaned up and professionally directed you could find yourself more successfully occupied as a low budget grass roots "Wheeler Dealer" alternative. Sort of a survivalist record of your excursions into the high risk abyss of bargain hunting relying on but a single simple carry on tool box and your wits to make it home, and even profitable in a short term.
No need or want to get slowed down by elaborate fixes, as that will make for greater efficiency of entertainment production, and that segment has already been played out by others at much greater expense of time and money.
Then you'd have more time and budget to do the things that you most like doing, and I'd have something more interesting to watch on the tv.
Could be you've stumbled upon an interesting and rewarding career, rather than just an exciting pass time.
It depends on what you make of it.
Now to your post.
Interesting that one can benefit from love taps on a Dynastarter, and that the other electrics slowly came to life on their own.
Do you think that you knocked the brushes loose, and that electrons build up pressure until they jump a gap of sorts? I haven't ever heard that electrons do this, but would appreciate knowing why it seems that they do.