My Uncle was moving on this IHC LA, I've always quite liked them and let one escape the pen before! It's a 1935 engine so a fairly early one, sadly it's gained a hand throttle lever, it should have the speed control knob akin to a WD style behind the flywheel. It also has the early type WICO H magneto which surprise surprise is open circuit! The first photo is my boy with the 1st one I had. It does run but it's not well! As to be expected from a kaput magneto. Ross has done a fair amount of work, repairing the tank, making new gaskets to replace the instant snot, decarbonising and cleaning it off.
With Christmas not far away money is a bit tight to spend on these old engines, so I've exercised a bit of Bodgenomics and used the primary windings from the magneto to power a 6v coil. It seems to work ok, not quite rewound magneto level but at least it's running now. The throttle lever was adjusted wrong (probably because it's from a later engine..) and I've ordered a hotter plug. Just need to tidy up my bodge a bit now.
Hotter plug, a tad better but still not as good as it could be. All a bit of a waste of time without getting the magneto done really.
