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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 |
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 |
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
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
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® |
Mechanical Engineering In A Box
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From Engino®. You pick between their Screws & Worm Drives or Cams & Cranks construction sets. The first has plastic parts to build a revolving crane, lifting arm crane, vise or scissors lift. The latter lets you build working models of a fishing crane, pumpjack, sewing machine, a moving human figure or (oddly) a flying eagle. Both have 36-page full-color manuals plus a booklet of diagrams. Made in Cyprus, so the books are British English, but quite understandable, actually. All the parts mate with each other and any other Engino® model kit, so buy both and the possibilities are endless. For ages 6 to 14 and up.
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94118 CAMS & CRANKS | |
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94117 SCREWS & WORM DRIVES |
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 |
iBotz® Hydrazoid Kit
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Why Hydrazoid? We dunno. The Greek Hydra had (9) heads while this guy has (4) feet and pair of antennae, but he's sound-sensitive and he's a definitely zoidal. Just go with it, OK? Think purple spider-like alien critter that walks when you talk. Or clap. (For 12-15 seconds, then he waits for more noise.) And you get to build him. Build it. Measures 7-3/4" x 6-1/8" x 5" on its legs. PC boards are pre-wired. You add a pair of "AA" batteries and a few basic hand tools for assembly. For ages 8 and up.
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94013 HYDRAZOID KIT |
How To Play Bridge
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
To play bridge, first you have to build one. Here are (2) of our favorite bridge kits to choose from. The two-level bascule bridge is a 30-plus-piece wooden kit for a working model of a Strauss trunion bascule bridge—the French invention that’s seen in all the bridges over the Chicago River. The wooden swing bridge is a truss design, not unlike the one Leonardo designed in the 16th century. Both are approx 28” long x 11” high x 4” wide when complete. They’re designed to carry small wooden toy trains, but will hold most small toy cars, plastic people, whatever. Kits include glue, instructions and stickers and, while unpainted, are paintable. For ages 8 and up.
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94037 BASCULE BRIDGE | |
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94038 SWING BRIDGE |
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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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