Kirk G
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OK, this is obviously not a model rocket, but I have no idea where to turn for help right now.
The wife has amazed me again, producing this dusty box and informing me that she had bought it for her younger (55 year old) brother... but wanting to know if I have any interest in it.
I've slid the box open, and discovered there's been some leakage of something (fuel?) that has evaporated to become tacky, and stained much of the instructions and cardboard inside. There is what appears to be an empty open can of fuel...and a 1.5 volt square "hobby battery" with leads still connected. There is an instruction sheet that indicates the parts include a top canopy, bottom fuselage, two rubber bands, a drop-in "motor" with propeller, and two or three wheels on wire supports. Some of the stickers are applied, and another sheet that has not. There are also at least two other drop-in paper fliers that advertise a similar RC Robot, and/or a transformers semi-tractor trailer with some form of launch system hidden in it. None of these toys are included, but look like the instructions got shoved into this box. There's the remnant of a price sticker that looks like it was a cut-out sale at Toys R Us, and then listed as a $1 yard sale item too.
I have no experience with this at all. Other than dusting it off and trying to clean it up with a damp rag, I don't know what to do with it. There is some sort of handle with twin strings wrapped around the plastic body...I assume that they are used to guide the plane in a circle around a pivoting operator. But I don't know where to look for fuel for this thing, or if it's safe.
Suggestions?
The wife has amazed me again, producing this dusty box and informing me that she had bought it for her younger (55 year old) brother... but wanting to know if I have any interest in it.
I've slid the box open, and discovered there's been some leakage of something (fuel?) that has evaporated to become tacky, and stained much of the instructions and cardboard inside. There is what appears to be an empty open can of fuel...and a 1.5 volt square "hobby battery" with leads still connected. There is an instruction sheet that indicates the parts include a top canopy, bottom fuselage, two rubber bands, a drop-in "motor" with propeller, and two or three wheels on wire supports. Some of the stickers are applied, and another sheet that has not. There are also at least two other drop-in paper fliers that advertise a similar RC Robot, and/or a transformers semi-tractor trailer with some form of launch system hidden in it. None of these toys are included, but look like the instructions got shoved into this box. There's the remnant of a price sticker that looks like it was a cut-out sale at Toys R Us, and then listed as a $1 yard sale item too.
I have no experience with this at all. Other than dusting it off and trying to clean it up with a damp rag, I don't know what to do with it. There is some sort of handle with twin strings wrapped around the plastic body...I assume that they are used to guide the plane in a circle around a pivoting operator. But I don't know where to look for fuel for this thing, or if it's safe.
Suggestions?