Solid Shapes

We think of these as industrial worry beads, but they're really 5/16" dia (8mm) steel ball bearings, ready to be put to whatever ball-bearing uses you might have. Our each is a pack of (50), which should cover a lot of worries, and whatever else you can...

Wood You Believe... A neat bag-o-wood, suitable for model-making, art projects and hobbies of all sorts. The balsa bag weighs almost 3/4 of a pound, and is a random assortment of balsa that may range from 1/8" square strips to a...

The Magnet Of Death One of our coolest recent magnet acquisitions. You’re welcome. This one is coated white and in the general shape of a tombstone with a flat bottom, straight sides and a rounded top. Measures just shy of 2” x 2” and...

Small pieces of very thin plywood for your craft and model-making needs. You get 18 cubic inches, which will translate into multiple sheets of 3-ply poplar, birch or similar wood at 1/8" to 1/2" thicknesses in random shapes and sizes. Our sample was (6)...

Giant Rubber Coins? 2-3/16" jumbo coins? We think not, but these nitrile rubber discs are as good as cash with all of their uses. Measuring 2-3/16" x 1/4" thick, these are leftover from a gasket that was punched out. Nitrile rubber is a good oil, gas,...

These are dark gray, open-cell foam tubes, 5-3/8” long x 1-3/4” OD with a 3/4” ID bore. We wouldn’t presume to tell you what to do with these, which is, of course your business, and frankly, we’d be ashamed of ourselves for...

Balls Of Steel What can we say about chrome steel ball bearings besides their essential uses? Well, a lot, actually. They're perfect for Rube Goldberg displays and artwork. Imagine them in various sizes in a glass container. Imagine dipping them in...

Styro Spheres Nothing says crafts like genuine Styrofoam™ balls-older than glue guns, more fun than a barrel of sequins-and you can't have too many. Our handy assortment contains (4) 1", (2) 1.5" and (2) 2" balls which sounds...

Pure surplus: 11” x 4” x 1/4” thick oblongs (which is to say, rectangles with rounded ends) of dense, black nitrile rubber. It’s like padding, matte on one surface and glossy on the other. Great for dampening vibration, or...

Ferrite toroids, actually. (The Iron Doughnuts was the house band at the Fillmore West in '66.) These doughnuts are for making transformers and filters and other magnetic magic. Ours measure 1-5/16" x 11/16" x 1/2".

Your guess is probably better than ours about what this started life as, but it’s a coaster now. Or a wall decoration. Or some part of an art project. In glass, 4-3/8” dia x 5/32” thick.Textured on one side; the other side is ground...

CELESTIAL INSPIRATION The planets. Sorta. You can own them, or at least one of them. These 2" wood balls with 1/4" holes drilled in them (but not through them) were meant to be planets for a solar system model. A Do it yourself...

Scary Molds... These white porcelain molds from the balloon industry are, frankly, the scariest non-medical items we've seen in a long time. They come in all sorts of sizes, in a bunch of shapes and sizes: rounds, ovals, screws, rods... on shafts with a...

BULK #00 RUBBER STOPPERS So Pat went a little crackers and bought approximately 897 gazillion #00 rubber stoppers, enough to stop up every small test tube in every high school science lab from here to Osaka. You'll get a bag o' (1,000) of them. We know...

This thick glass lamp diffuser measures 10-1/2" x 6-7/8" inside with a 1/4" perimeter lip. The 1/8” thick glass is patterned in 1/16” squares, and the whole shebang is an offset triangle that’s 2-3/4” high at its tallest...