
Mystery Boxes of stuff like what you see in the catalog. Maybe we had a little left but not enough to continue the listing. Maybe we only got a few as part of an odd lot. Maybe we just lost some, and just found them in our warehouse. You will get items which originally listed for at least $25.00 total in our catalog (or would have, if we had enough). You pick. The "electro-mechanical" box has things like motors, switches, hardware and components that are useful parts but want to be worked into something bigger. The "consumer" box has more ready-to-go type items, and things that don't have as technical a flavor, like bottles, toys, books and giant rubber bands. The fun is in the mystery and surprise. Perfect if you don't know what to give Aunt Maude and Uncle Ned, or if you can't decide how to bring your order up to the minimum. Every couple of months the contents will keep changing, so even if you have gotten a box before, feel free to order again! (Please note: Ordering multiple boxes at the same time will result in duplicate items.)
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23610 CONSUMER SURPRISE BOX |
You schuss down the slope and come to a perfect stop at the edge of the chalet deck just as the (you hope to be) love of your life steps out and hands you a cup of hot buttered rum. You slip off your mitten and reach for it, a broad grin on your face and-OOOOPS! There goes the mitten under the deck. The possibility of love everlasting fades with your clumsiness. But wait! True love can be yours with the handy dandy AS&S wrist straps! Yes, just snap the clip to the ring on the mitten, slip the 5" or 9" loop over your wrist, and never worry again about ending up alone in a basement apartment eating cat food. Braided nylon, the 9" in black, the 5" in a variety of colors with chrome plated clips.
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29829 WRIST STRAP, 5" | |
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29221 WRIST STRAP, 9" |
A rubber grommet, 7/8" dia x 11/16" thick, with a brass insert that forms a flange over one face and lines about 3/4" of the length of the 1/4" dia bore. Use it as a grommet, a shock mount, or both. With or without a brass wire hanger that is set under the insert flange and extends 1" to the side. The hanger is bent to hold a 1/4" dia wire.
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30601 GROMMET W/ HANGER | |
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30443 GROMMET W/O HANGER |
Porcelain mortars and pestles. Great heavy duty mortars, with sides that are easily 5/16" thick on the smaller ones, and up to 1/2" on the larger. The mortars are glazed outside, but rough inside, the better to grind, and have a pouring lip. The business ends of the pestles are unglazed, while the shafts are glazed. Very functional, very good looking!! So grind your own spices or lab concoctions as you prefer. You get a mortar and pestle as a single order.
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88314 MORT & PEST, 130ML | 4" OD x 1-3/4" | 4-3/4" | |
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88909 MORT & PEST, 600ML | 6-1/2" OD x 2-15/16" | 6-3/16" |
We have obtained a large number of real natural corks, mostly surplus with a few fill-ins bought commercially. They range across the popular sizes used in science labs to seal vessels (drill your own holes for glass tubing, etc) and to use as floats. Or just use them to seal bottles that don't have closures or cry out for a decorative seal.
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92688 CORK #0 | 3/8" | 9/32" | Details | |
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88746 CORK, #00 | 5/16" | 7/32" | Details | |
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92718 CORK, #1 | 7/16" | 5/16" | Details | |
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89230 CORK, #10 | 1" | 3/4" | Details | |
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89232 CORK, #16 | 1-3/8" | 1-1/16" | Details | |
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1711 CORK, #2 | 1/2" | 7/16 | Details | |
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89234 CORK, #20 | 1-5/8 | 1-5/16" | Details | |
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88748 CORK, #3 | 9/16" | 7/16" | Details | |
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23594 CORK, #5 | 11/16" | 9/16" | Details |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
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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42324 EXTRA FUEL PELLETS | |
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72202 STEAM ENGINE KIT |
A 14" sq lightly padded cloth advent-like calendar hangs from a plain wood dowel with knobs on the end. Santa, a teddy bear and a penguin stand in a wintry scene in the middle and (3) black wire hearts are the hanging apparatus above the dowel. Around the edge are the numbers "1" through "24", each with a button over it. You get to make whatever you are going to hang on each button to count down to Christmas! Or, you can just move the included wooden heart from date to date. The color scheme is predominantly rusty red, grey and white. The tone of the piece is more craft and sampler than holiday, and it is entirely devoid of any religious symbolism, although it is advent calendar-like in use.
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32251 COUNTDOWN CALENDAR |
And we do mean micro. Sizes #61 to #80 (yes, that is twenty different bits) which are from 0.013 to 0.038 inches diameter!! The big boys sell a set of similar bits (carbon steel, like ours) for about $30.00!! Maybe theirs aren't from China.
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89087 20-PIECE MICRO ROTARY DRILL BIT SET |
Individual cases for 3–1/2” computer discs. The nice thing about these is that they are stiff enough to protect the disc but just flexible enough not to be brittle and break the way most “jewel” cases do. Red, blue, purple or gold, all are translucent enough to read interior labels. We pick your color.
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30371 SINGLE DISKETTE CASE |
Protect your car insurance and registration papers in this padded vinyl, black zippered pouch. That's probably the intended use since it has Grand Am stamped on the front. The 9-1/2" x 4-1/4" x 3/4" pouch has 2 inside pockets and 3 inside slots to hold cards. Even if you don't have a car, the zippered pouch is great for your cash, checkbook and coupons.
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28159 GRAND AM POUCH |
The instructions with this chrome-plated ladder thing 2-1/8" x 24" long say you wire flowers to it or poke fabric through it to make a garland, but it's cooler than that. Slightly curved, with 1" between rungs, it's a natural for a hamster ladder. On its side, it's a great fence for a toy zoo. Slick chrome kitchen? Hang it with drying herbs. Laid belly-down, it sits there and rocks and amuses you - but then, we're very easily amused.
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32482 CHROME LADDER |
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