Clamps. Whatever. These measure approx 5" long x 1-1/2"' at their widest. They open to about 2", though, so they'll not only grab test tubes, they'll pluck cubes from an ice bucket. Or carry a few stems of asparagus. And you do get a pair, so you could always have a tong war.

Devices used to hold spring in place, thus ensuring eternally promis-ing, but changeable and wet weather. No? How about this then: Steel grips, spring loaded to keep their tips tightly closed on whatever you chose to target. The handles and tips have been coated with a light plastic to improve grip and provide a bit of insulation. The clamp is about 4" long x 5/8" wide and opens about 1-1/4". They have strong grips and will crush fragile items, but do a good job of holding things while the glue dries, you do the soldering, or the materials bond.

This double burette clamp has rubber-coated jaws that can grip a cylinder up to 1-1/2" dia. The adjustable jaws swing on a T-shaped lab-stand clamp for free horizontal movement. Not a chemist? These are perfect for metal sculptors creating fanciful crabs, lobsters and crayfish.

These gray foam washers/spacers/vibration pads are 1" OD x 1/2" ID x 1/4" thick with a peel-and-stick self-adhesive face on one side. They'll make your doors and drawers land more softly when you close them. Also useful as non-scratch and non-slide feet.

In this case, a C-clamp. In blue-enamelled steel with a zinc-plated screw and pad. Measures 5-5/8" x 3-1/4" x 5/8" and opens to 3”. (We’re still looking for B-clamps and the largely useless Q-clamps.)

If you feel your furniture would feel better with little felt feet, we feel that way too. Save your floors and tabletops with this selection of self-adhesive circular felt pads. Each package has (8) pads at 3/8" dia and (8) at 1" dia, and you'll get (2) packs.

Brass L-shaped shoulder hooks (Why aren’t they elbow hooks?) are handy to have around. Each has a thread about half as long as the hook itself, and a small plate that fits against the wall. You get (2) packages, for a total of (6) 1” hooks, or (4) 1–1/2” hooks.

A fatal yoga position? Crocodile moves? Nope, just a shiny steel snap hook, 3-1/2" long with a 3/8" ID, attached to a 3/4” ID swivel, the better to hook your keys on whatever you hook your keys on.

Hardware from Monkey Grip, Inc.? Those would be professional–quality tire repair products –– in this case, air–line couplers with a 1/4 NPT thread on one end and a fitting for a T–type connector on the other. The 1–1/2” long interchangeable steel nipples have T–connectors that are threaded. Excellent quality, whatever your application.

This one will do, particularly if you’re hanging up something substantial, and you need a hook that looks sort of like a question mark. Brass-plated steel, 4-3/4” long with a 1” ID and made from 3/8” stock. The last 2-1/4” have a 3/8-16 thread waiting for a nut you could find in any hardware store.

Nominal 1/2" actually 5/8" long cotter pins, 1/32" dia. That's all, but that's enough!!

You could fit all of these springs in the palm of your hand, but they're still mighty handy. Steel extension springs, 1/2" long x 3/8" dia with 5/16" ID loops at each end.

These small spring hose clamps are 5/8" dia when resting and 11/16" dia when squeezed to the max, which not coincidentally are the minimum/maximum ODs of the hoses they will clamp shut. We've all got something that needs pinching every now and then, don't we?

Get your keys organized before everything uses iris recognition. Choose between a set of nickel-plated steel split rings at 3/4", 1", 1-1/4" and 1-1/2" dia, or a set of (4) rubber key caps/covers in red, yellow, green and blue. Karen, our Boreal Studies Professor, says they look like tiny little stocking caps on her keys, and she should know. (Our pkg 2 gets you 8 covers)

Handles-R-Us. In the spirit of pure surplus, we’ve got these 1-7/8" long x 3/8" aluminum handles for a mechanical counter. Sized for a 5/32” ID shaft with a set-screw to tighten it down. If you don’t have any handle-less mechanical counters, put a handle on something else.

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  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.

No, O-rings. Get ’em here, because we got ’em. These black rubber (neoprene, we believe) O-rings are nominally 1-1/2” ID and 1/8” thick, and made in the USA. Use them for crafts, tiny ring toss games, in dioramas or dollhouses, as vibration pads, or in actual O-ring applications. Because, after all, they’re O-rings.

It’s not for your serious security needs, but it will probably keep a 9-year-old out of his sister’s diary. Our smallest brass padlock measures 1-1/4” tall with a 5/8” shackle, and comes with (2) tiny keys. Lose your keys much? Lock them to a belt loop and put the key in your shoe.