That's another beauty of a good starting powertorque, it often takes only a very light pull to fire one up.
I remember when new, they would fire up at the lightest pull of the cord less than half way up!
I wonder, could a PT with long shaft be made to breath new life to an Aldi 21" model?

Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!