
Heavy-duty glazed ceramic tiles are good places to put hot things that would damage more vulnerable surfaces. Think lab, workshop, kitchen; think of the coffee mug on your desk. Canadian-made tiles all have speckled, textured surfaces. We’ll choose gray or off-white rectangles. Rectangular size is 3-7/8” x 7-7/8” x 1/2” in assorted colors. Make a serious table-top. Tile the mud-room floor. Get creative in the garden. Make mega-mosaics.
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27303 RECTANGULAR TILES |
The wave of the future. Create your own ISP or long-distance phone company. The plastic fiber-optic cables are clear, 1/32" dia single strand. Unjacketed is IFC-U1000, 1000nM. Jacketed cables are encased by black plastic, 1/16" OD, IFC-E1000, 1000nM. What do modelers do with it? A recent magazine on model railroading showed how to build a lighted marquee using fiber optics. Pretty neat!! The big boys get $1.60 to $1.90/per foot for this stuff!! All fiber optics sold in 10-ft lengths. Extremely neat!!
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91069 FIBER OPTIC, JACKETED | |
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91068 FIBER OPTIC, UNJACKETED |
A variety of shapes and ugliness, but unbroken tips. Some single ended, some double.. Super for all manner of hobbyism, save do-it-yourself-dentistry. Excellent price in today's weakened dollar market. All stainless steel.
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4358 DENTAL TOOLS |
Miniature 5–1/2" steel needle files. They come in the usual assortment of flat, wedge, triangular, and round shapes, (10) in all. They seem to be pretty uniformly fine with none that we would call coarse. Made in China, they come in a vinyl carrying case that snaps shut. Not as classy as some of the sets we have seen in the $18.00 range, but perfectly serviceable for most applications. And at a third the price.
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10900 NEEDLE FILES |
Hemostats are the clamplike devices dangling from veins and arteries in melodramatic operating scenes. Our particular collection are Pakistani surgical-grade instruments made of magnetic stainless steel. As such we rate them pretty good, but not fantastic. Hemostats look like little pliers. The jaws are relatively fine, with rounded tips. The inside faces are lightly serrated to get a grip on tubing or body plumbing. And the handles are much longer than the jaws. Ratchets between the handles click together to lock the hemostat in a closed position. To release the clamps, push the handles apart at 90 degrees to the plane of the jaws. Now the heavenly part. Great hobby clamps that can be worked into small areas. Fine heat sinks for electronics. Good hook extractors for trout fisherpeople. Excellent tubing clamps for flow-sensitive chemistry experiments. Sizes are approximate length.
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3697 HEMOSTAT, CURV TIP 5-1/2 | |
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23652 HEMOSTAT, CURV TIP 7-1/2 | |
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91105 HEMOSTAT, STR TIP 12" | |
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6273 HEMOSTAT, STR TIP 7-1/2" |
Wiring for square phones: this 25 foot telephone wire is 4-wire with spade connectors at the end - for a non-modular, hardwire phone. Ivory. A square item at a hip price!
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29375 NON-MOD PHONE CORD |
Just a basic common phone line. 25 feet long, flat, 4-wire, ivory casing. Nothing at the ends: you attach the modular plugs, spade plugs, or incorporate it into your imaginative electrical contraptions. We'll keep the price basic, too.
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29374 PLAIN PHONE CORD |
Individual cases for 3–1/2” computer discs. Well, actually there are cases for either one or two discs . The nice thing about them is that they are stiff enough to protect the disc but just flexible enough not to be brittle and break the way most “jewel” cases do. Red, blue, purple or gold, all are translucent enough to read interior labels. We pick your color, you pick your type.
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30391 DOUBLE DISKETTE CASE | |
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30371 SINGLE DISKETTE CASE |
Everyone needs a "Mosquito Crossing" sign at the summer cottage. If you own a formal wear shop or a wedding chapel, you really need the "Penguin Crossing" sign. Taverns everywhere should warn patrons about inattentive jackalopes, and actual dairy farmers might have a genuine, non-cute, need for the "Cow Crossing" version. These are all well-made 12" square indoor/outdoor metal signs, painted standard traffic yellow with a black border and realistic animal graphics. Each hangs diagonally from a pre-drilled 1/4" hole.
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92803 COW CROSSING | |
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91718 PENGUIN CROSSING |
Plop this cork sheet into any of your projects. Quite flexible, 12" x 36", just 1/16" thick. That's pretty thin for a bulletin board, but just right for making yourself a cork wardrobe, or providing designer soundproofing in your Media Room. Use a sheet as a soft base for delicate model building, or craft a raft; cork floats, you know.
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27593 CORK SHEET |
A fine concept and pretty successful execution. Weighted bases hold fully adjustable clips and lenses for delicate hands–free work. The Helping Hand w/solder has a 2” high base connected to (2) alligator clips via (3) universal joints and a 4–1/2" sliding beam, and to a 2–1/2" dia roughly 3X magnifier via another universal joint on the sliding beam. It also adds a holder for your soldering iron, plus a hole and thumbscrew in the base to firmly position it. The larger Work Stand has a 3–1/2” x 4–3/4” stand with a 2–3/4” square x 3/8” deep reservoir to hold small parts, an L–shaped sliding beam with (2) alligator clips, and another L-shaped beam with a 3–1/2” lens, about 4X magnification. Joints adjust every which way. The set screws can all be hand–tightened, but we suggest a small pliers to secure the hefty 4X lens. Think of the clips as extra hands to hold wires, components, beads, what-have-you while you perform some operation on them with your own two hands.
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92280 HELPING HAND W/SOLDER |
$3.35
EACH
(was $3.95)
Out of Stock. Check Back Soon! |
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91855 WORK STAND W/MAG. |
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