
Why bend your wrist when you could bend your tools? Try our extra-long carpal tunnel trio, a 3-piece set that includes: a straight needle-nose pliers with 3-1/2" jaws, a 90° needle-nose pliers, and a long-nose diagonal end cutter. All are 11" long with double-padded grips and flat springs to keep the jaws open slightly. Ideal for reaching engine parts that normal tools can't get a grip on. From Illinois Industrial Tools.
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93496 PISTOL PLIERS |
Because masking tape, despite its innocent-sounding name, can peel stuff off other stuff when all you wanted was to keep paint off the other stuff in the first place. Use what painters use. You get a 60-yard spool of 1-inch or 2-inch wide blue painter’s tape, made in the USA. Compare our prices. You’ll be back!
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93540 1 INCH TAPE | |
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93541 2 INCH TAPE |
Maybe. But very long, in any case. Makes you want to join the highway patrol. A full 19-1/4" of dark-gray, black or blue anodized aluminum with a krypton bulb. Requires (6) "D" cell batteries that you provide (we can help you with that). Has a hexagonal head and battery cover to prevent rolling, two knurled grips, and a 2" dia face.
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38707 LONG FLASHLIGHT |
Careful carving calls for crisp, clean cuts, Clyde. Our precision carving/craft knife measures 5-3/4" long with a rounded, rubberized grip to fit your palm and a knurled chuck for easy blade changing. Comes with (6) alloy steel blades, 2-1/4" long with 1-1/4" curved cutting/carving edges. Will also take standard hobby-knife blades. Includes a protective sleeve so you don't whittle your thumb finding it in the drawer.
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93502 CARVING KNIFE |
Or closet ceiling fixture back home. The white-plastic, 5-3/8" dia x 3/4" thick disc has a 1-5/16" opening in the center that has a reversible, removable hook for hanging with the LEDs facing up or down. Has (24) white LEDS in a circular row and a push-button switch. Takes (3) "AA" batteries (not included) which will last around (12) hours at full throttle.
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93413P1 LED CAMPING LIGHT | |
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93413P2 LED CAMPING LIGHT 2 PACK SAVINGS |
Sextants came along after astrolabes but before GPS. (Just like you.) They're used for finding latitude and the distance between objects, and are still the non-electric, non-satellite-dependent back-up for navigators. Ours is a beauty in solid brass with glass optical components, at a tiny price. Measures approx 4-5/8" x 4-1/4" x 3-1/4" OA and comes in a very nice wooden case. Includes instructions for use, which you're going to need unless you went to Annapolis where they still teach it because computers can still go all kaflooey. (Note that well before computers started going kaflooey, compasses and sextants lost an adventurer here and there, too, so don't call us if you and the sextant set out for Madagascar and end up in Iceland.)
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93559 SEXTANT |
A beautiful set of (18) natural-bristle artists brushes with 12" long wood handles. Our each is (9) flat and (9) round brushes, in sizes from #1 to #8, plus #10. They come in a roll-up, natural canvas case with a self-tie. We'd point out what a ridiculously low price this is, and what excellent quality, but then the guys in our purchasing department would get swollen heads and start demanding more than minimum wage. Shhhh.
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38977 ARTIST BRUSH SET |
For the nautical gentleman's study. Our stunningly fashionable brass and wood compass has a decorated face set in a mahogany-stained wood surround, with (6) brass mini-bollards set around the perimeter. (This allows the gentleman to show off his nautical knowledge, discreetly murmuring, "Look at those wonderful brass bollards.") Measures 4-9/16" dia x 1-5/8" tall on its (3) little brass feet. The compass itself is 2" dia. A very attractive gift for yourself or your favorite yachtsman.
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93674 BOLLARDED COMPASS |
How to shoot an azimuth for fun and profit: Get the ultimate direction finder, a lensatic compass. It has a 2-1/8" dia face marked in 5-degree increments, a 1/4" dia sight lens, 9/16" dia bubble level, and a 1-1/2" sight with crosshairs. Measures 3-1/4" x 2-1/2" x 1-1/8" when folded and comes with an 18" long cord and an olive drab belt pouch. For instructions, go to www.armystudyguide.com, click on "land navigation," then click on "determine a magnetic azimuth using a lensatic compass." Piece o' cake.
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93675 LENSATIC COMPASS |
Don't toss it and buy a universal remote. (How many things are really universal, after all?) Try this jar of Keypad Fix, designed to clean and restore conductivity to the carbon on the keys and the copper PC board pads that make up the rubber-coated switches on remotes, game controllers, and security keypads. Contains enough to coat over 200 button contacts.
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93683 KEYPAD FIX |
Works on all of them except the ones stuck to your eyeballs. Corrosion-Be-Gone is a gel made to remove the schmutz from all types of battery terminals, circuit boards and contacts, on everything from cars to computer boards. Our each is a 0.3 oz jar.
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93684 BATTERY GOOP |
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