Those long boring nights spent recharging your rope lights are finally at an end. This 16-1/2 foot rope light is 3/8" dia with (50) white LEDs inside. Mount the 2" x 1-5/8" solar cell in the yard or on the deck, plug the rope in and (8) hours of sunlight will give you up to 12 hours of glowing rope when the sun goes down. Includes the rechargeable NimMH battery, ground stake and hardware. Has standard on/off or auto modes. Water & weather resistant and rated to last more than 100K hours.

They're rechargeable, although it's not much of a secret. You get a shrink-wrapped pack of (3) flat-top "AA" 3.6 volt Nickel Metal Hydride batteries rated for 1500mAH. Measure 2" long x 1-11/16" x 9/16" with a 3-pin Molex connector and 3/4" leads, black and red for output.

Our big, double-layer cut-off wheel special has (5) type 1, 45-grit industrial wheels at 4" dia x 1/16" thick along with a 3/8" arbor and 2-3/8" long 1/4" mandrel. Max 19K rpm. Don't forget your safety glasses.

Not for big fish, but for someone with a lot of dirty laundry or a bunch of unwieldy sports equipment to tote. In dark mesh, 54" long x 32" wide with a drawstring. Buy it for the coach or athlete in your life. Or for the launderer in your life.

at the house of blue light. Little Richard Penniman said so. But good golly, now you can turn your car into the house of blue light with this pair of 3-1/2” long CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) tubes connected via a 28” lead to a control unit, and then to a cigarette plug. Has a 2A fuse with a power switch, and includes self-adhesive mounts for the tubes and control box.

The under-powered can opener we call it. This electric can opener takes (2) "AA" batteries but is as weak as the old "My dog ate my homework" excuse, so we suggest using it for parts instead of trying to open cans of soup with it. Or better yet, find a way to add another "AA" Battery. It has great parts either way. A six-way set of meshing gears and arms, a 3VDC 90mA/220mA motor that spins approx 5K (torqued out), and two-piece plastic case. Great for DIYers, hobbyists, small-motor heads or thin cans of soup. 

Teacher Alert! At this price males a great school project to show the inner gear workings of a gadget!

You don’t have to move to Mars to have a rover. And this Snap-Circuit Rover Kit is cooler anyway. No soldering required--you just snap (doh!) the parts together and you’re ready to try the (40) experiments or build over (60) projects. Includes a foam disc shooter (you can’t do that on Mars), music sound generator, digital voice recorder, red and blue side lights and sound effects. Roves forward, back, right and left via a wireless  3-channel remote, which means you and two friends can have rover wars right here on earth. Includes a full-color assembly manual. Check out Elenco video. 

Nice set of (10) sketching pencils from Reeves, 7" long, running the hardness scale, (1) each at 4H, 3H, 2H, H, F, HB, B, 2B, 3B and 4B. We like the 2B for our crossword puzzles and the included sharpener means broken tips are no longer an excuse to not finish them.

This Olive Drab painted on the outside and shiny, reflective silver on the inside aluminum lampshade from Uncle is 7” dia at the bottom x 4-1/8” tall with a 1-5/16” hole non-threaded, in the top for the bulb. Plug the hole and it’s a bowl!

Don’t tell your mother. (Mothers are notoriously anti-microbial.) This microbe-lab kit from Nancy B’s Science Club™ has STEM written all over it, and is for ages 8+, and comes with a 22-page manual (and “Germ Journal”) for (10) experiments. Includes plastic Petri dishes, flask with stopper, funnel, loupe, spreader, dropper, tweezers, a counting grid, latex-free gloves and a gram of agar.

A smaller version of the monster flood lights most of us can’t afford, this one’s rechargeable from iZoom with a 600-lumen 10W COB white LED with a 2-3/4" x 1-3/4" reflector in a water- and dust-resistant 4-3/8" x 3-1/4" x 4-1/4" with a padded 3-5/8" handle and adjustable 6-1/2" x 5-1/4" H-shaped base plus an adjustable mounting bracket. Includes a cigarette-plug charger and wall plug. Runs a little under 2 hours on a full charge.

Well, lesser flack. Mount this clear plastic shield over the chuck of your rotary tool and watch it keep dust, chips, shards and other debris out of your eyes and nose. Measures 2” x 1-1/4” with a 5/8” dia barrel. Works great with our 92283 rotary tool.

Environmental Science teachers, how about showing your students how to test water’s visibility and hence turbidity--or its opposite, clarity--with our freshwater Secchi disk? (We thought you’d like the idea.) The disk is just under 8” dia with an integral weight and alternating black and white quadrants, attached to a 72-foot nylon cord marked every foot with a hash mark. Just lower it into water and you’ll have your results, and teaching points.

You can't start investigating crime scenes too early. This kids fingerprint kit comes with a 1" magnifier, ink pad, print-lift tape, a dozen fingerprint cards and the ever-popular dusting powder, plus instructions. For ages 7+. Dieting parent alert: nothing takes prints like a stainless steel fridge door.!

This small gear or wheel puller includes a thumbscrew to tighten it down. Made for wheels and gears of 3/8” to 5/8”. Got both? Pull one, then pull the other one.

You’re bound to be able to read through one of the lenses on this triple-lens hand-held magnifier. You pick. There’s a large, 5-1/4” acrylic lens at 1.5X with a 1” dia bifocal on the left at approx 2X and a doublet in the handle at approx 7X. (Ignore the surplus-inducing mis-marked lens powers; we tested ’em and the powers listed here are accurate.) Has (3) white LEDs under the main lens for your viewing pleasure and measures 10-3/4” long . The other is the same thing in a slightly smaller size, 8-3/4” long overall with a 3-3/8” x 1.5X main lens with a 1” dia bifocal on the left at approx 3X and a doublet in the handle at approx 7X. You add (3) “AAA” batteries for the LEDs.

This bright headlamp has a 45-lumen LED (which is bright!), and comes with an elastic strap to put it on your noggin when you’re biking, spelunking, mining coal or fixing that leaky pipe under the sink. Measures 3” x 2-1/2” x 2-1/4” with a pivoting mount. In orange and black plastic, and you add (3) “AAA” batteries.

This pre-filled PC board has (50) white LED chips on a board measuring 22" long x 1-1/2" wide at its widest, with clearly marked power in/thru jumpers at each end. You’ll need at least 24VDC at 300mA to fire it up. Max is 32VDC 1A, and we don’t recommend staring directly at it when it’s in operation.