
About 40-50 highly polished stones, all shiny, translucent, or brightly colored, ranging from 3/4" long to 1/8" long. Great for mosaics, jewelry, or aquariums.
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90006 TUMBLED GEMSTONES |
Used to regulate flow through a flexible tube. The screw driven jaw can be accurately adjusted in any position from closed to fully open to allow you to get just the rate of flow you want. The swing-away bottom jaw design lets you install over already connected tubing. The jaw opens to a maximum of 7/8" high and is 15/16" wide. Made of nickel plated steel, all edges are rounded to avoid cutting the tubing.
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88189 CLAMP, SCREW |
Refillable butane torch, with a 1/2" dia x 5-3/4" body and a 1/4" dia. x 2-1/4" long head. Strong enough to melt solder, silver and gold solder, glass tubing and such metals as gold, silver, copper, tin, and aluminum. Equally handy around the hobby shop, jewelry bench, or lab. Refills from standard butane lighter canister.
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22490 PENCIL TORCH |
Simple, yet clever 1" dia. by 3" long plastic device to demonstrate the vortex effect of a tornado. Partially fill with water one of the two half-gallon size plastic soda bottles which you supply. Screw the bottles into opposite ends of the tube which we supply. Tip so the full bottle is on top and give it a circular starting whirl. Presto! You have a vortex. Call it a tornado if you're a meteorologist, a Charybdis if you're a classicist, or a whirlpool if you're into oceanography. Lots of fun and a fine opportunity to attempt to explain the effects of the earth's rotation on water draining out of a bathtub. The phenomena are related we're told, but good luck!!
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6667 TORNADO TUBE |
Not Tempura, tempera. Color things Dark Green or Burnt Sienna (sort of dark brick red) but don't eat these 1-7/8" sq x 3/8" thick, 2 oz cakes of dry paint. From Weber-Costello, they are called "Biggie" and sell for $2.00 in the big boys' catalogs. Don't you love surplus??
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29954 B. SIENNA TEMPERA | |
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29952 D.GREEN TEMPERA |
Just leave bread in a damp place. Or buy this stuff and make casts of solid objects, anything from faces and fingers to celery and crucifixes, with quick-setting Instamold. (We'll sell you 10 oz. of the Instamold compound, but you provide the water to mix it with.) Then fill the molds you've made with plaster, wax, or Permastone-yes, we sell Permastone too. It's an extremely strong casting medium with a clean white hue when set, waterproof and scratch resistant. Each can we sell has 1-3/4 lbs. of Permastone, to be mixed with water.
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90072 INSTAMOLD | |
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90073 PERMASTONE |
Zipseal plastic bag of the size gnomes use to store leftovers. 1" sq, 2" sq, 2" x 3" or 3" x 4" (our each come in bags of 100 count), clear polyethylene (the 2" x 3" 27906 has a white strip across one side, 36562 does not.). Store rings, small rock samples, biology parts, and model pieces. Great for cleaning up behind your Guinea pig when you take him for a walk.
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90273 POLY BAG, 1" | |
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27906 POLY BAG, 2" X 3" (STRIP) | |
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90274 POLY BAG, 2" | |
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36562 POLY BAG, 2" X 3" | |
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34552 POLY BAG, 3" X 4" |
One of those sharpie East Coast outfits pulled a fast one on this poor naive Midwestern dealer. The result is we have a pile of exotic coated copper magnet wire. The coatings and colors vary widely, as does the gauge of the wire. With a couple of exceptions there isn't enough of any one kind among the hundreds in the pile to list separately. So we are offering an assortment and you get whatever we grab. Either way you will get a terrific value, particularly if you have an exotic application and get just what you need. Even if you are just making a garden variety coil or electromagnet you will still find the prices are very good. So go ahead, profit from our misfortune. We are glad to be of service. Sigh.
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36227 MAGNET WIRE, 16 GA | |
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36228 MAGNET WIRE, 20 GA | |
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36229 MAGNET WIRE, 24 GA |
Glass beads, 0.055" diameter!! They are German and are the kind you glue on stuff to make it sparkle or reflective--not the kind with holes. At our price you could do layers in little bottles for really cool thingums!! We have 'em in clear and a whole host of colors. Craft stores sell tubes of these beads for a ruinous $4.00 per tube or about $3.35 per oz.. Well, we don't have the tube so you are going to get a baggie, but you only have to pay $1.00 per oz so jump up and down and clap your hands over such a great deal!! The only thing left is to choose what you need. In case you can't do that, we offer an assortment of (10) packages which will include clear plus at least six (6) different colors.
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26947 AQUA BEADS | |
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27056 ASSORTED BEADS | |
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26941 BLACK BEADS | |
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26952 BLUE BEADS | |
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26944 BRIGHT BLUE BEADS | |
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26953 CLEAR BEADS | |
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26951 FUCHSIA BEADS | |
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26945 GREEN BEADS | |
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26948 LAVENDER BEADS | |
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26942 ORANGE BEADS | |
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26943 PINK BEADS | |
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26946 YELLOW BEADS |
Marble bases with small imperfections. But hey, who among us doesn't have a few? Made from a beautiful white marble, they were intended as trophy bases but can be used to display art, small science projects, etc. They are 3" X 3" X 3/4" thick and some boast soothing cork bottoms to protect the furniture. Made in Italy.
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25701 MARBLE BASE 3" X 3" X 3/4" |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-This toy is or contains a small ball. Not for children under 3 yrs.
The planets. You can own them. These wood balls with holes drilled in them (but not through them) were meant to be planets and moons for a solar system model. Do it yourself. You and your kids will learn a lot more than if you bought a kit that does all the thinking for you. Some balls are painted bright colors, some are varnished natural wood. Most have at least one 1/4" hole, some have smaller holes. They could also be joints and/or finials for some kind of dowel construction. Nothing to stop you from drilling new holes for a truly custom project.
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27124 BALL, 1" DIA | |
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27122 BALL, 1-1/2" DIA | |
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27120 BALL, 2" DIA | |
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27126 BALL, 3/4" DIA |
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