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

[Dave Rotigel]

At 01:58 PM 4/4/2005, you wrote:
>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

Hi Tommy,
         My 15 HP IHC (which I had at Baraboo and Portland last year) has 
the boss cast on the cylinder. It's S/N DA 359, and if you believe the 
literature it was built in 1914.
         Dave