Yes, the figure of speech is to “bell the cat,” but this bell, while having a pretty dainty tinkle, is made for hanging from a dog’s collar so you can track the pooch in the field. Brass-plated (the bell, not the dog), it measures 1-3/4” x 1-3/8”, and hangs on a 3” long canvas strap. No dog? Use it to call your footman.

US Navy Mk8 Mod8 gunsight reticle. In classic "ladder" pattern. Came to us in a lot of antique 1940's Eastman Kodak Military grade lenses and reticles. This unit was part of an illuminated cannon sight or gunsight. Might be a bit dusty or tarnished, but still looks pretty good for their age.

We couldn’t think of any clean jokes for this part, so just add your own. Meanwhile, this little, 1/4” dia, bright white COB LED is mounted on a 3/8” square PC board. Requires 70mA at 9VDC. Our in-house Fire Prevention & Ophthalmology Team suggests a heat sink as well as indirect viewing.

It’s a 5-draw extension shaft that extends from 7” to nearly 26”. One end has a padded black rubber handle and the other has, well, nothing. To be fair, it has a 3/8” long metal cylinder with a 7/32” ID at the business end, but for what, we don’t know. We suspect it was on its way to being some kind of pick-up tool but got distracted. As is, it’s a dandy pointer or the beginning of a clever something that you’re going to invent.

Your standard big-as-a-rug 9’ x 12’ disposable drop cloth in clear plastic. Thin, at .004”, but plenty thick to stop paint drips, and equally handy for sticking your head through at rainy sporting events (it’s your head, so you punch the hole) and big enough for two or three.

Some hold machine guns, some hold heads, and some hold pills, like these. In translucent plastic, they have two compartments, marked AM and PM, with snap lids. Measure 2-3/4" x 1-1/2 x 13/16" and are 7/16” deep inside. We’ll pick some in red, yellow, green or purple, because pills don’t care.

Forget what 2 + 5 equals. If you want your kid to grow up to be an astronomer, best get this set of (36) constellation flash cards from Astronomy Magazine. Measure 4” x 6” with actual photographs of the stars on the student side, and the answers plus a bunch-o-facts about each star on the back, because what are you, an astromony professor?

Of course you’re not, but you might like squirrel-cage fans like we do. If so, this take-out, cream-colored ABS plastic squirrel-cage blade is for you. Originally from portable AC units, they measure 6-3/4" dia x 3-3/8" across with a flattened 5/16" ID bore and a 3/4" shaft that extends 7/8” into the cage. Could be re-rigged for a gerbil wheel. Made in USA.

And fly they do, up to 120 feet when launched from the included rubber-band devices while you watch them stream through the sky lit by a bright blue LED. You’ll get (6) 5” long LED-lit rockets with little wing flaps, plus (3) 3” launchers with rubber bands. Fun to watch, and easy to find with the blue lights still on.

White chalk is fine but imagine the possibilities of a full palette of colors. Looks nice, right? Our box is (16) pieces of washable chalk at 3-1/8” long x 3/8” dia, and you’ll get (3) boxes, each with (2) pieces of green, purple, yellow, pink, hotter pink, blue, orange and white, which is a color too.

Easy-peasy with this translucent white plastic project case/file. Measures 12-3/4" x 10-3/8" x 1-5/8" with a latching handle/clasp. Interior is 1-1/8” deep to hold those larger projects. Comes with (4) index labels, and has little balancing feet so it will stand up by itself. 

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Play The Who while you’re building this collection of all (5) sensory organs. You’ll get the parts to make free-standing Lindberg models of a nose, eye, ear, tongue and patch of skin to illustrate the senses of smell, sight, taste, hearing and touch. Models measure 9” x 5” x 6” to 7” when complete. You add paint and glue. For ages 10+.

When is a spiral-bound notebook not just a spiral-bound notebook? When it’s got a pair of nunchaku (or maybe you say “nunchuks”) embossed on the cover with an actual little chain for, like, verisimilitude, dude. Inside are 94 pages of ruled, white 8” x approx 11” sheets, like that part matters.

Put your great-grandmother’s name on a leaf, then stick her on this family tree. Our genealogy kit includes a faux-parchment 18” x 14” family tree and (25) little leaf stickers for assorted ancestors, along with (48) assorted branch stickers to connect the leaves. You’ve got uncles you’d rather forget? Stick ’em on the ground under the tree, and tell people they fell off.

Send them to school with this steel Transformers lunchbox, and their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches will turn into heroes. Features four different characters on each side, and yes, one of them is Optimus Prime. Box measures 7-3/4" x 6-3/4"x 4" with your standard lunchbox clasp and handle. And in a nod to intellectual property rights, it’s actually licensed by Hasbro.

What will scratch your back and pick up the keys you dropped? Your valet, yes, but on his day off we recommend this aluminum 4-draw back-scratcher with a chicken claw that has a neodymium magnet between its middle talons for grabbing ferrous stuff. Extends to over 26” long, but shrinks to a pocket-sized 8-1/4”.

Daytime, too, or whenever you need to start a fire, especially outdoors. These pressed resinous-pine tinder sticks measure 4" long x 1/2" square, and our each is a box of a dozen. Marked as being from the “Survivor Series,” they’re water-resistant and slow burning, lasting approx five minutes each.

When you can’t or won’t drill through the walls to get the cable TV or satellite signal inside, try this short piece of flat coax cable, made to lay down along the internal sill, so you can close the window over it. Also perfect for outdoor-mounted, over-the-air antennas. Measures 7-1/2” long x 11/16” wide x a darn near flat 1/16” thick with standard female F connectors on both ends and is covered in white vinyl. Even has a little self-adhesive strip on one side to keep it flat.

Faux leopard-skin, among others. And from faux animals in a wide variety of non-animal colors, like green and fuchsia. Perfect for the senorita flirting at a post-modern bullfight, these accordion-style folding fans have plastic frames that hold accordioned cloth with a top edge of black lace because they’re for flirting, remember? Measure approx 9” long and open to 13”. We’ll pick the colors because we have really good taste.

Dead-center in the universe of tools you can’t have too many of, this 7-1/2" driver has (2) reversible heads, one with Phillips #1 and 3/16” flat, and the other with Phillips #2 and 1/4” flat, in chrome vanadium. Handle is 4-1/2” long and rubber-coated. Keep it in the kitchen junk drawer, where you can always find it.

So you don't have a gas jet in the garage? You don't think Margie and Ted are old enough to handle the high temperatures of a Bunsen burner? Our alcohol lamp is the answer. It burns alcohol (available at the hardware store), and is hot enough to boil water, to soften glass tubing for bending, and to generate the chemical reactions generally called for in science projects. The lamp is shaped like a long-necked ink well, 3-1/2" tall x 3" dia at its widest point and comes with a wick assembly and a handy little glass lid/extinguisher.

Lovely to look at, delightful to make jewelry out of. Our (25) piece set of polished gemstones includes: amethyst; howlite; tiger eye; hematite; amazonite; carnelian; sodalite; turqurenite; plain and rose quartz; rhodonite; unakite; snowflake obsidian; orange calcite; lemon jade; four varieties of jasper (serpentine; red, brecciated, picture and blue dalmation); and more. All approx 5/8" across.

We won't say magic, what with Science being our middle name, but these cut-resistant, composite-yarn technology gloves are pretty mystifying. In cobalt blue or bright white, our each is either a pair or single glove (see description above), and since you only wear one on your non-slicing hand it's a great deal.  Lengths are from wrist to middle fingertip. They're not puncture-proof, of course, so no stabbing please, but Barb, our Director of Accounting & High-Speed Fish Gutting, was unable to slice into them. Made in the USA by Best®.

You can store a plethora and a half of things in this staggeringly cute set of a dozen screw-top clear plastic canisters, 1-1/4" dia x 3/4" deep, that fit perfectly inside this 6-3/8" x 4-3/8" x 1" deep clear plastic lidded box. How they got those circles in a rectangle is a Euclidean mystery.

These 5-5/8" wide cardboard solar viewing glasses filter out 99.999 percent of visible light, and 100 percent of harmful UV and IR light, which means they’re safe for direct solar viewing (and your sunglasses aren’t). A sharp, orange image of the sun will always be there because the lenses are scratch-resistant. You get (2) pairs because who wants to watch an eclipse alone? For you techie types who care, they’re rated for transmission under EN1836:2005 and AS/NZS 1338:1992. ISO 12312-2:2015. In other words, they're from a NASA approved manufacturer. 

Our cutest-ever ratchet set. Includes a 5-5/8" long driver with a 1/4” square lug on one side to drive the (6) included 5, 6, 8,10, 11 & 13mm sockets; and a 1/4” hex port on the reverse to drive the (10) flathead, Torx and Philips bits. Box says it’s an “assorted tools life assistant” and a “good family helper,” and where can you get that for under six bucks?

Just like (pretty much) the old steel ammo can GIs carried, and then carried home to their garage workshops, but in olive drab plastic, which doesn’t rust. Measures 11" x 7" x 5" with a gasketed flip-up lid, 3” latch and a 5-1/4” folding handle on top. Weighs in at a little over a pound.

This excellent 500ml capacity essential oil distillation set comes with an 18" lab stand, 2-1/2" ID support ring, single buret clamp and borosilicate glassware with a 500ml round-bottom (just like you!) and 24/40 ground glass joints. Also includes a boiling flask, 300mm Graham condenser, 500ml Erlenmeyer flask and a 10" adapter arm. Make your own perfume or something more potent--we don't judge. You supply some 3/8" ID tubing for the condenser. Check out our other lab distillation kit and small glass bottles, perfect for storing your essentials.

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We know you need accent lights, and we know you hate paying electricians. So…grab this 7-3/8” long x 1-1/8” x 1/2” silver iZoom® light bar, peel the back off the magnetic strip it comes with and stick it up anywhere. Has (10) LEDs and is rated for 200 lumens behind a frosted white lens. Has a motion and light sensor, so it only accents stuff in low light when it senses movement, which saves on the (4) “AAA” batteries it comes with. Lights for a 3-minute duty cycle.

Electronics. The best thing that ever happened to calipers. Save your eyesight and measure accurate outside and inside dimensions with this digital instrument. Powered by an included button-cell battery, it measures up to 6 inches in .001 increments or 155 millimeters in .01 increments. Hardened stainless steel, 9-1/4" x 3" OA, with a locking vernier, it comes with a nice sturdy storage case and extra battery.

I sing of arms and the robot. You should pardon the abuse of Virgil, but this robot arm kit is as elegant as the Aeneid. It’s hydraulic (the robot arm, not the Aeneid) and the kit has (229) pieces, including gripper arms that move on (6) axes, including a 180-degree wrist rotation, mobility of 98 degrees, elbow range of 44 degrees, shoulder motion of 45 degrees and a base rotation of 270 degrees. Also has a suction mechanism and brake pad. For ages 10+.

From ET Tech, this series 23 liquid micro-pump draws less than 300mA at 4-6VDC (5VDC nominal) with a liter-per-minute flow rate and up to a 3-foot lift. Not submersible, but suitable for hot-water apps and continuous duty. Measures 1" x 1" dia with a barbed 1/4" right-angle outlet and a 3/8" OD inlet on top. Great for fountains!

These digital camo-frame goggles from Voodoo Tactical® measure just over 6” across with 3/8” thick foam to protect your face and keep the sand and dirt out. The shatter-proof and scratch-resistant UV400 polycarbonate lenses are held on your noggin with an adjustable 1-1/2” wide OD elastic strap. We’re pretty sure Rommel would have ordered these if we’d shipped to North Africa.

Seldom seen in the wild, these electronically controlled motorized scarab beetles from Elenco® come with (2) sets of (6) legs to double their versatility. You build ’em from a kit that includes dual motors and sensors so they’ll detect objects and react in (9) programmable (via jumpers and sockets) responses. Includes instructions. Finished critter will be approx 6” x 4” x 2-1/2”. You’ll need some hand tools and intermediate soldering skills, as well as (4) “AAA” batteries. Ages 14+.

Welcome to AS&SDOT, the better department of transportation. We provide all the highway, driveway, hallway, deck or bathroom crossing signs that the government neglects to post because they don't know what's really crossing your path. Mount your very own well-made indoor/outdoor critter-crossing sign. Each is metal, 12" square with a graphic depiction of the critter(s), realistic or otherwise, and each hangs diagonally from a pre-drilled 1/4" hole.

Don’t skimp on traffic/accident cones when you can collapse them down to 9-3/4” square and just 3” tall. In safety orange nylon with a reflective silver stripe mid-way up and steady-on and flashing LED warning light. They stand over 15” tall when extended on a non-skid base. Set includes (2) “AA” batteries.

What do rotary tools have in common with fashionistas? Yes, it really is all about accessorizing. This set includes (20) shading bands, (10) fiberglass cut-off wheels, (21) assorted grinding stones, (3) polishing wheels, (45) woolen wheels and points, (36) silicone cut-off wheels, (60) sanding discs, (6) brushes, (5) diamond burrs, (8) high-speed steel burrs and drills, (3) mandrels and some polishing paste, all have a 1/8" shaft and come in a dandy wooden case. Case measures approximately 12-3/8" x 5-3/8" x 1-3/4".  Check out our best selling rotary tool here. Click!

you’d hammer in tent pegs, all over this land. That’s what this bright yellow plastic mallet was made for, and it has those notches in the handle to help pull out recalcitrant pegs when the camping’s done. Measures 12-1/2" long with a 1-7/8" dia x 3-5/16" head, and at a mere 1/3-pound, it’s perfect for camping.

Just string this 65” long set of (10) battery-powered LED light bulbs along the railing and it’ll be like you’re dining in Italy. Bulbs are clear, 2-1/4” dia with a soft 3-lumen warm-white LED inside. Will run 8-12 hours on the (2) included “AA” batteries. Truly romantic folks will get several sets to ring the deck or patio because those little lights make the tagliatelle alla Romana taste so much better.

This braided polypropylene rope is 3/8” dia (rope size #12) and rated for a 100-lb working load. You get (50) feet of this easy-to-knot utility rope in assorted colors.