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Glorious Steam Stationary Plants...
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Build a real head of live steam in the boiler, ease the throttle open and watch the engine take off. The stationary steam plants have nickel plated brass horizontal boiler, water gauge, whistle, safety valve, throttle, 3" dia flywheel and power takeoff pulley. Our dry pellet fuel model (includes 20 fuel pellets) has a single action horizontal piston engine and comes as a kit. It requires about 2 hours to assemble and mount on its roughly 7" sq base, using simple tools like pliers and screwdriver. Assembly adds to the fun and cuts the price! All parts of each are precision metal, plated or enameled as appropriate. Select a small DC motor that will operate as a generator from our catalogs and see if you can become a 19th century electric utility!! Requires light assembly. Ages 10 and up. Add a box of (20) extra fuel pellets for even more hours of enjoyment!
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72202 STEAM ENGINE KIT |
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Hydraulics Made Easy
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Cleverly made, and mighty heuristic, too. For someone entranced by hydraulics, or for a whole classroom of students, there’s the Pathfinders 4-In-1 kit, with the excavator, scissors lift, a cherry picker and the platform lifter. Fun and educational kits made up of unfinished wood, transparent tubing, and plastic syringes, which power the movement. As you might expect they range in size, but the bases are all approx. 3-1/2" x 8". Very clever teaching tools for ages 8 and up.
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93629 HYDRAULICS 4-IN-1 SET |
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Serious Rubegoldbergian Fun
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You're in for weeks and months of fun creating Rube Goldberg-like versions of the VorteX, a Techno Gears Marble Mania machine. You get over (375) pieces, many of them glow-in-the-dark, including baseplates, marbles, connectors, channels, "twisters," mills, tubes and gears to create intricate tracks to move marbles around, down, over and through the maze. Includes a battery-operated marble launcher that makes the whole thing automatic so you can sit back and watch your creation run by itself. In the dark. You add (3) "AA" batteries and a capacity for twisted thinking.
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94123 THE VORTEX |
Bridges To Burn
Or break, actually, as an heuristic exercise. Here's a classroom-full of bridge-building supplies based on the Illinois Institute of Technology's national bridge-building contest. Each kit contains enough balsa wood pieces and glue to supply (24) budding engineers or physics students with what it takes to test their skills at wooden bridge construction. Includes a 12pp teacher's guide with info about (6) bridge styles and (8) types of trusses, (24) rules/instruction sheets for students, (360) pieces of 1/8" square x 24" long wood, and (24) bottles of white glue. Among the most engaging and popular classroom projects in the country, it's designed for grades 7-12.
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93359 CLASSROOM BRIDGE KIT |
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Genuine Erector® Set
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The Erector "Cable Command" set has 252 pieces, instructions for (6) models (including a truck, plane, end loader and crane), and suggestions for another (9). Comes with claws/grabbers/lifters, rubber treads, cables, metal beams, screws, plastic wheels and basic tools. Designed for ages 8 and up. In the event of projects lasting over (4) hours, call a mechanic.
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93795 ERECTOR SET® |
Wood Would Always Be Better
We woodn't kid you; we always like wooden kits best. More organic. These are all pre-cut, unfinished pine and include nails. You add wood glue, simple hand tools and paint. Pick the little birdhouse, which will be approx 6" long x 3-1/4" square; the pirate ship, which will be approx 8-1/4" tall x 7" long x 1-5/8" wide, with black-string rigging and paper sails that are included; or the fun 6 3/4" x 2" x 2" drag racer. For ages 8 and up.
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94260 BIRDHOUSE KIT | |
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94262 DRAG RACER KIT | |
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94261 PIRATE SHIP KIT |
Lay Siege To The Doghouse!
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Right after you build your own working medieval catapult or trebuchet. All you'll need is glue, scissors and a steady hand (plus a small bag of marbles or rocks or something as a counterweight for the trebuchet) to construct these wooden, Canadian-made siege engine kits. The catapult stands 6" tall x 5" wide x 10" long and will toss assorted stuff 15 feet or farther, depending upon the stuff. The finished trebuchet will be 26" long x 18" wide x 24" tall and will propel small objects (meatballs?) 20 feet or more. Both include detailed instructions. Note: Please don't propel small mammals, and please don't put anyone's eye out.
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92886 MODEL CATAPULT | |
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92887 MODEL TREBUCHET |
Puddle Paddler
Build a motorized mini-paddle-wheeler. This kit includes all the parts you need to made a double-side-wheeler in plastic, measuring 7-1/4" long x 3-1/4" wide x 1-1/2" from keel to gunwales. Paddles are 2-1/2" dia. Includes a rudder, a small battery-operated motor to turn the paddles, wiring and instructions. You add a few simple tools and pair of "AA" batteries.
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40622 7-1/4" LONG PADDLE-WHEELER KIT |
Six Simple Machines In A Box
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Physics starts here. Thames & Kosmos makes this dandy little kit to build models of all six simple machines: levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, wedges and wheels & axles, along with a spring scale to measure forces. You add a plastic pop bottle for weight. For ages 8 and up.
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94287 SIMPLE MACHINES KIT |
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Miniature Masonry
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Snap-together building blocks? Those are for cowards. We spit on those. Tough kids use Mini Bricks, monument kits that come with teensy faux-stone textured plastic blocks (1/4” cubes or 1/4” x 1/4” x 1/2", among others), mortar, a mixing tub and a very, very small trowel. The Statue of Liberty has 132 pieces, instructions, and a mounting base. (You don’t build Lady Liberty. She’s in faux-copper, 3” tall; you build the base.) Suitable for kids with small-motor skills and patience. Neatness counts.
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39672 MINI-LIBERTY |
Ten-Model Erector® Set
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
You get over (190) pieces, mostly steel, in this Erector® Multimodels set. Includes detailed instructions for building a derrick, fighter plane, helicopter and motorcycle, with another (6) model suggestions with full instructions on their website. Rated at a "two-wrench" level of difficulty, it includes plastic gears, wheels, pinions and pulleys. Whole lotta construction fun in a small package for ages 8 to 88. !WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
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94291 190-PIECE ERECTOR SET® |
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