Yesterday I managed to kill my start battery trying to start my 55HP 95 Yamaha. When I got home I hooked up the on board charger and after about 10 minutes I hit the starter and of course it fired right up. I am going to take the cables off and clean them and replace the wing nuts with regular nuts. However, the battery spun the motor for a good while before it ran down, so my question is, how do you guys start your 2 stroke carb Yammys? I went through this with my Mercury a few years back until I learned what it wanted. Any tips on how you start yours. I was told by the guy that installed it to raise the fast idle up to full, press the choke button and fire it off, releasing the choke when it fires. This is cold starting first thing in the day. After it has been started once it fires right up for the rest of the day. Battery is 5 years old, but it seems to take and hold a charge. This is the first time I failed to get it started, even though it has been balky cranking the first time. I have been told this is uncharacteristic of Yamahas motors. It is a remote control console type motor.