[SEL] Barn Fresh Fairbanks/ Now IHC Hot Tube Ignition

[Judge Tommy Turner]

To my knowledge (which is little), IHC didn't offer an "either / or" 
situation.  I think they all came with ignitors and most with hot tubes 
in the early years but I've never heard of one with hot tube only.    I 
know my 8 HP (SN 33) has both.  The ones build from about '08 on don't 
have the hot tube boss bored.  The cylinders on engines built after 
about  '12  no longer have the casting boss on the cylinder.  Perhaps 
some of our SEL IHC Collectors can chime in on this as I'm speaking from 
my own personal obsevations and not documentation.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY


> Tommy,
> When you say " I know the IHC engines had both hot tube and ignitors 
> for about 4 years", are you saying IHC offered either option for a 4 
> year period, or that they were manufactured with both ignition systems 
> fitted?
>
> In the earliest years when they were hot tube ignition only, was there 
> a boss on the side of the cylinder for future electric ignition?
> Curt Holland
> Gastonia, NC