Hey guys and how's it going hey, i decided to make some shorter videos, maybe midweek videos that are of the oddball stuff. I've collected uh at yard sales from time to time, and this isn't the item that we're gon na go do today, but it leads up to it. This is a little model airplane. I was at a town, wide yard, sale and this was free on the side of the road and of course, you can't pass up something.

This cool for free i'd, say it's a model, uh scale airplane. I don't know what scale that is. That is roughly four feet long from prop to tail missing the wings so has the engine on it, and i don't know what it's got left looks like somebody plucked out whatever it had for electronics and controls and stuff on it and let the rest be. I thought it was cool anyway, while i was there at that yard, sale.

Checking this thing out where the free pile, i should say the guy, was in his garage and he came over to. He said you want to see. Are you into cool stuff, i'm? Like sure oddball stuff, i think, was the actual term and i said sure - and he said come this way to the garage and uh he showed me up on the shelf. Was that thing right there? I believe it is.

I don't know actual name for them are when you it pulls you under the water, like your scuba diver or i don't know if even for snorkeling, it would pull you under the water and propel you, and i said what do you want for that and i Think we haggled back and forth a little bit and ended up 40 bucks. I don't know if you bought it for 90 bucks at a yard, sale and uh. Just never did anything with it and then sold it to me or if he was trying to sell it at a yard. Sale at some point, don't know much about it.

It's been sitting here for about about two years. Let's go drag, it downstairs. Take a look at it and just see what makes it tick all right. I got it down on the bench, get a better look at what we got, i'm not sure if it's homemade or a factory made it kind of has somewhere in between the looks got a headlight in it.

It has no phillips screws in it that i see so far kind of shows its age that one might be one. I don't know. If a manufacturer there might be an email somewhere that cool little pinstriping on it. I got phillips screws right there.

My guess i don't know like early 70s, just by the the style, the pinstriping and everything and the slight crudeness to the way it's made all right. Let's go pop that cover off. Let me go see what's inside it give you a idea. It's probably i see it's about 36 inches long cover's got rubber on it.

I don't know. If it's that's meant to keep it water tight. You would think it would have to hold a little bit of air right. There also be like a brick in the water.

Maybe not, i see wood we got inside here battery hookup, i don't know if i ran 212 volts or 2 6 volts. Let's take a bunch of hold down brackets at one time, good thing they actually kind of took the batteries out. It probably would have corroded that crap out of it - i don't know - maybe it was watertight. That's probably two power leads going in.

That's a relay i've seen more wires. That's probably the jumper wire for the battery the battery. What that is probably more the same. Yeah yeah yeah another one kind of looks like that motor looks like a uh like an electric trolling motor.

I mean it wouldn't make sense right. It does the same idea, let's see if we can rotate it and we'll get in a second. Let's go for a throttle, looks like just a and just on off no adjustment, no hop on this side, another middle. It's got two of them, two different speeds, maybe they're both dead man, you got ta hit them all at the same time, for it to go.

Yeah, may you uh what you understand we're going to go flip her over on her belly, see if you can see anything on the on the underside. Let's see we get that's why i wouldn't flip over probably to help you keep it going straight in the water. So would you be wearing this with scuba gear would be my guess: right has a headlight kind of meant to pull you down under. It actually looks like the like the end of a trolling motor.

They just took it off kind of clicks in the location. Yeah. Very stiff ding, ding ding ding clicks like a you know that clock hand movement most of the trolling motors. I have don't do that.

You think they would have some kind of better protection. If that's that's, where your face is right, you're holding on to it. So, what's your arm's length, your your face is literally like in a comfortable position, you're about five inches behind it. I'm sure you're you're meant to actually it's upside down to try to keep it.

You know you're, probably up around here in the water supposed to probably shoot against your chest. Maybe i don't know, never tried one all right, let's go flip it back over and uh. Maybe go throw some power out and see what it does. You know.

I bet why it's got two switches. I would think once maybe for the headlight we're gon na find out, so i don't see any voltages written on anything and i would think it would operate on 12. What did it say for uh? Did it give colors yeah they're in parallel, so i'm going to say 12., so red's, hot and that's supposed to be green yeah green is ground. Smoke comes out.

We're gon na have to go over to that all right go ahead and switch to see what happens when you wan na do left to the right. Try the try this one! That's the headlight yeah all right! This one should give us juice, maybe oh yeah! It moves along pretty good. I don't see ain't feeling any wind coming off of that. You think i have like a speed control, but i guess you just kind of hit it.

You know. If you want to go somewhere, you hit it, you let off hit it. Let off not like it's direct drive, you kind of have the mush of the water. What a weird little setup you need.

We can find some name or something on they might have gotten painted over too hold on the motor. Maybe, on the stand too, that looks just like that's definitely looks like it's homemade yeah. I don't see your name on it anywhere. It's kind of thing you see like on 70s james bond movie or like the monkeys or something from back.

Then i just thought it was cool. Looking i i just like the way it's made. I don't know yeah. This is of course steel.

That's probably a piece of wood. It's got something maybe a fin or something went in there to guide it. Well, too bad. It's 10 degrees out, and the pond is two foot thick of ice.

I don't think we'd be able to see anything with it anyway, because the pond is all mucky and dirty water. I wouldn't mind trying it out at some point: what are you doing this summer? Again, what you think um little motorcycle batteries like well, there's not much room, that's in that's, probably four, and they had them too deep, we'll go, get a tape measure real quick! I see we got 17, actually, probably even further. That way, yet i'd say we'll call it because you got ta, be able to get him out so 17 by four here over four, whatever batteries and it's round on the bottom, so it'll be whatever this is by four, so four by four by 17. If you call it 16, so eight four by four would be what the batteries are.

I don't know what battery has a good like a deep cycle battery like on a trolling motor would use on that size, maybe like emergency backup, uh lights, for they can go into the spotlights over a door, emergency exit exits and get batteries in them. Maybe those well that i could think of that's pretty neat. I don't know how again well, maybe watertight is not that important. It looks like it would make a it would make a decent seal, but i don't see that being perfectly sealed all the way around you know again, it's got ta have a little bit of buoyancy to it.

You let go of the thing it just submarines down to the end of it. I don't think you would tether yourself to it right. Yeah, that's just like a piece of it might be an old grip. It's a grip, it just looks like it either fell apart or they they made these switches up on the side of it.

Yeah kind of looks like a little bit of an afterthought. That's it. Your guess is good as mine. If anybody has any information on these knows anything about them or you know, was it something that wasn't like you know popular magazine or popular mechanics, rather back in the day that you built it yourself, you got me uh put it in the uh comments down below Links don't work very well, uh youtube kind of kicks the links out and i got to go, find them and put them back into the circulation part of it, but uh yeah.

If you know of anything or seen anything before on these, my guess is somebody just did a really good job of trying to make it. Maybe somebody that was uh into scuba, diving and built their own, because even a stand, you know looking homemade like it is. I think what it would be made out of if it started out as like a a propane tank, or you know something along those lines, fire extinguisher all right guys. Well, that's that's all i got on this one again we're gon na try to keep a little short and uh.

I have a bunch of stuff like this, that i've poked around and grabbed over the years - and you know, thought of doing an actual functioning video in the water, but just never got around to it. So we're gon na go with it with this. For now, and possibly we'll try running in the water in the future, but for now that's it hi guys, thanks for hanging out little quickie and uh i'll see you soon till then later.