I was monkeying around with my cam timing experiment and I banged the valves into the tops of the pistons. Then I corrected the cam timing so this will not happen. Are the valves bent?, I asked myself. It is time for a compression check. I put on the gage, hit the starter button, and nothing happened. Hours later I found and corrected an intermittent break in the wire from the ignition to the kill switch. Then I found and corrected another break in the wire to the knock light. Finally, with all of that fixed, I smashed down on that starter button again. There was this "fried electrical part" smell. I rebuilt the starter this winter and screwed it up, I guess. I took the starter motor down to the local rebuild shop this morning. The lithium battery might be toasted, too. My father called me a "one man wave of destruction" when I was a kid. The name sorta fits.