If it has enough power to turn the engine, you should have enough to produce a spark [and completely irrelevant with a mag).
But, at the risk of stating the obvious, you're not getting fuel, spark, or maybe compression [if you're borderline there, a week battery won't spin it fast enough to pull in a good mixture or compress it as well either].
Soooo; after a few months, I'd suspect points or needle valve. Least messy (especially if you have an assitant) pull a plug wire and check for spark. If that's good, do you smell gas at the exhaust when it cranks? No? See if that carb is getting gas, if it doesn't have gas, it could be stuck needle valve, plugged line or bowl, [is the gas above the standpipe? BTW].
Well a couple obvious directions anyway; I don't have my H anymore, but that one and several others I've tinkered with were always pretty forgiving if they had gas in the carb and spark at the plugs.
This post was edited by spiffy1 at 09:09:45 03/16/09.
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