is minimized and does not adversely affect igniter performance it should be further noted that the coil 14 of wire can be immersed in the resulting flame without any adverse effects and readily operates within same referring now to fig9 a perspective view of a typical gas collector box 40 showing the attachment of the hot wire igniter 10 of the present invention thereto is illustrated the gas collector box 40 is comprised of a housing 42 and a mounting bracket 44 attached thereto an aperture 46 is provided in the mounting bracket 44 gas collector box 40 has an opening shown generally by the numeral 48 thereto the bottom surface 50 of gas collector box 40 has an aperture not shown therein the hot wire igniter 10 of the present invention is attached to the gas collector box 40 such that the portion of the insulator member 16 adjacent the end 26 thereof is received within the aperture not shown in the bottom surface 50 of gas collector box 40 and a fastener 52 is received through aperture 34 in mounting bracket 18 to firmly attach mounting bracket 18 to bottom surface 50 of gas collector box 40 in this manner the portions 24 of the rods 12 emanating from the end 26 of insulator member 16 and the coil 14 attached thereto are within the gas collector box 40 and adjacent the opening 48 thereto in order to mount the gas collector box 40 with the igniter 10 attached thereto to a typical burner the.