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Yes and yes plus the boyer, like most electronics, needs a top notch battery to fire
You've ordinarily got most conditions (as stated) going against you to initially fire petrol into combustion. Full choke and "priming" may not help in this instance. With the plug and whole combustion chamber metals cold, along with ingesting damp cool air, then the mix is difficult to propagate a flame front fully so it snuffs itself rather than advances. As soon as you get even a modicum of heating and normalising combustion conditions the problem will reduce.You could try initially cranking it with no choke and listen for any firing, then without stopping turning it over, start to bring the choke in slowly to see if that catches it.This is just trying not to overwhelm the air with too heavy a fuel load initially so that the cold mixture is moved more toward "dryness" to favour getting it to light up. A bit like holding a newspaper across an old fire place to get it to draw