LAB/SCHOOL

Inside the lab, it's a standard translucent-white, LDPE-plastic wash bottle, 500ml/16oz, measuring 2-3/4" dia x 6-3/4 tall with a screwcap and a right-angle, 5/16" dia nozzle. Outside the lab, it's so pleasing to squeeze and squirt with that some of us keep them in the kitchen.

For people who don't live in Portland or Austin but still want to keep it weird, this 4-1/4” tall x 3-3/4” dia white coffee mug says “Keep it Weird” in black and gold on both sides above a lovely illustration of a duck-billed platypus (ornithorhynchus anatinus). Impress your office mates or add a touch of kitsch to your kitchen.

Stethos is Greek for chest. Indeed you can scope your stethos with this stethoscope, or your friend's or your dog's. But it works equally well for picking up any sound being transmitted through a solid medium. Listen to the air flowing through the heating ducts, the water in the pipes, the sounds of machinery, the termites munching on the floor joists!! The color does vary so we will select from what's currently available. We've had blue, teal, red, black, burgundy, green and purple, but there may be other colors yet to be seen! A great discovery device whether for biology or other pursuits. Not of professional quality, but not just a toy.

Stainless steel mortar and pestle set. Mortar measures 5-1/4” dia x 3” on a 4” dia attached saucer-like base. Holds approx 250ml. Pestle is 6-3/4” long with 1-1/4” and 2” dia heads. Nice for the lab, or for folks who want everything in their stainless steel kitchen to be stainless steel. You know who you are. And we salute you.

This digital instant-read lab thermometer measures 8-1/4" long total with a 5" long stainless-steel probe that's resistant to most chemicals. Has a removable cover with a pocket clip, on/off button, and C or F readings (-50 to +300C, -58 to +572F). Button-cell battery included.  

Almost big enough to pick up mortals: 9-7/8" long, 1/2" at its widest, with a mouth that rests open at 1-3/16". Stainless steel and non-magnetic, with a rounded serrated tip that's 5/32" wide. Good for giant splinters, crafts, jewelry, electronics, or sushi.

We’ll say. Herr Erlenmeyer of flask fame was handled Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer, but you can call him Emil. Our Borosilicate glass version of his flask holds 500ml, and is graduated from 200ml to 400ml in 50ml increments. Stands 3-3/4” tall with a 4-1/4” dia bottom narrowing to 2-1/2” at the top, which also makes it a hard-to-spill coffee cup.

Sometimes at the end of a long day of typing, our fingers just need to lie down for a while, so we grab one of these finger cots and….sorry, we were challenged to write a clean finger-cot joke. Never mind. These are your standard, natural rubber latex finger cots, aka “sheaths,” size small. Use them to protect your fingers from paper cuts, dryness, chapping, irritating liquids, whatever. Our each is a box of (144). Gross, you say? Yeah, kind of.

Our digital pH meter is ideal for science projects, monitoring your water, keeping your prize-winning tomatoes happy and your aquarium healthy, and more. Has a 1/2" LCD that reads from 0-14 pH with a resolution of 0.2pH. Comes with (3) AG-13 batteries for power, directions for calibration including some 7.01 buffer solution and a screwdriver. Measures approx 5-3/4" long x 1" x 1/2" with a pocket clip and cover for the business end. Made in Romania!

Who among us isn't? This set of lab tongs measures 10” long in stainless steel, and is designed specifically to pick up stuff in, yes, labs. If you want to use them for other purposes—canning jars, brats on the grill, dead rodents—be assured that there are no tong police. Just use a different pair for each job, eh?

Wanna stir up a little trouble? We've got just the tool. Our solid glass stirring rod is 8" long x 3/16" dia. Flat ends. Perfect for mixing a scientific formula, a perfect martini or a jar of tempera paint.

Puns-R-Us. This white coffee mug has pi-Lingual printed on it, along with a bevy of geometric diagrams and equations, plus pi carried to 50 decimal places. Try not to use while eating a piece of pie, because there are some limits to what people will tolerate.

No, really. Stop scraping your fingernails along the tape trying to find the end. That’s not sanitary anyway. Try this handy medical-tape dispenser with a cover. Includes the white/clear plastic dispenser plus (2) 30-foot rolls of 1” wide white latex-free cloth medical tape.

What a price for a Sprague Rappaport stethoscope! And the improved model, at that! The 30" long stethoscope can be easily configured for (5) different functions, replacing other styles. It comes with (1) large and (1) small diaphragm, (3) different sizes of bell-type chestpieces, (3) sizes of eartips, and instructions for use. The interchangeable parts are in a compact, clear-plastic carrying case that fits into a pocket. Tubing will be assorted neon colors (our choice).

That'd fill this 9-oz ceramic coffee mug with the periodic table of elements printed on the side to about half a cup. It's printed in color on both sides, actually, in case you're left-handed. The atomic numbers and weights are a trifle small, but then they are atomic.

Affordable, adaptable lab equipment for serious scientists with laughable budgets. The basic stand is heavy black metal 8" long x 5" wide x 1" high with a 19-1/2" x 3/8" dia support rod screwed into it. Position a beaker or bunsen burner on the stand and build the configuration you need above it. Both the Burette clamp and the ring attach to the rod with thumbscrew clamps. The Burette clamp has a wing nut so it can be adjusted to any angle. The clamp extends 4" from the rod, with rounded, uncoated, adjustable metal jaws with spring tension and a wing nut. The 3" metal support ring holds the 6" x 6" heavy-gauge steel-mesh burner screen with crimped edges. Nice, solid equipment at a rare price.

If you didn’t know what our (6)-well porcelain spot plate was, you might wonder if it’s a decorative tile, antiquated contact lens holder or a piece of modern art. Other will know it can be used for chemical qualitative analysis and color or precipitation experiments. Measure 3-3/8" x 2-1/8" x ½”, off-white and glazed. If you squint, it looks like the “6” half of an understated, monotone dominoes bone.

There's a tool for everything. Think post-hole diggers for a model railroad layout. All right, all right. Think cork borers for all those solid corks and rubber stoppers in laboratories, the ones that need holes for glass and rubber tubing. Our each is a set of (3) 3-3/4" long brass tubes with sharpened ends and red-plastic T-handles. Diameters are 9/32", 7/32" and 5/32". They're nested on the 4-3/4" pin used to clear the plug from the tube.