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.)

This simple, clean-lined chromed cabinet latch will tell every visitor to your home that you're standing right at the cutting edge of elegant home design. Each latch is 3/4" x 1-3/8" long with a 1-3/8" x 5/8" plate and a 1-1/4" long handle centered on a tasteful dome. Includes a mounting nut. Made in the USA.

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.

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.

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.

This float valve assembly has a 2-15/16" x 1-9/16" dia white, barrel-shaped plastic float on a 1" x 1-1/4" stainless steel arm, making it look like a float valve for a Lilliputian toilet tank. Arm is connected to a 1/4" ID check valve with a 1" long flattened shaft and cotter pin connector. Designed for a bottom mount.

You’ll get a great big bunch of hooks, including cup hooks and gate hooks, plus assorted eyes in assorted sizes and finishes--steel, brass, white. It’s a gallimaufry of hardware and it’ll save you years of trips to the hardware store because you’ll have the stuff you need already on-hand, barely taking up any space. You’ll get an assortment of (5) packs in, yes, assorted sizes.

Serious clamping made easy. This 9-1/2" long steel spring clamp has 1-3/8" x 1-3/4" swiveling jaw pads. Opens to 3” and has padded handles. Spring strength is substantial; could double as a grip exerciser.

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.

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.

A bright little flashlight with (8) super-bright white LEDs in a circle and a less-than-5mW red laser right in the middle. One click and it's a flashlight, another click and it's a laser pointer. (Note: flashlight and pointer can't be on at the same time.) Measures 4-3/8" long x 1-1/8" dia in assorted colors dark silver, red or blue aluminum with knurled grips at both ends. Lasts 30 hours on a set of new alkaline batteries (3 "AAA" heavy duty batteries included).

O my. It's time to restock the O-ring cabinet. You'll get (36) total, (6) bags of (6) black rubber O-rings, all 1/8" thick. Each bag will have (2) 1-3/4" OD x 1-1/4" ID and (4) 3/4"OD x 1/2" ID. Made in the USA.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.