AN INTERESTING IGNITION PROBLEM

Some time back, I acquired a 1910 4hp battery and coil powered Waterloo Boy engine with an interesting problem. Today I say it had an interesting problem, at the time I used less complimentary terms.

It’s a big engine with good compression, difficult for a 70-plus-year-old man to start. I’d pull it up on compression slowly, then give it all I had to pull it over before it kicked back. It seemed