
An easy way to light up the kids' eyes! Teach them to wire a simple circuit with our basic components. The knife switch is mounted on a plastic base. The miniature plastic socket holds a standard flashlight bulb with a 14 mm dia screw base. We pack 6 volt and 3 volt round bulbs, or 1.5 volt bell-shaped bulbs, (5) to a package.(Bulbs are rated slightly higher to prevent them from burning out.) Or hook up the black plastic and metal 2" x 4-1/4" telegraph key with brass contacts and (2) terminal posts with nuts. Our blue-plastic holder for (1) "D" battery has a small tab at each end to hook a lead to, and a 1/8" square mounting hole at each corner. You add the mounting surface and the know-how. Actual bulb voltage listed in parenthesis.
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91160 1.5 VOLT BULBS (2.5 V) | |
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91159 3 VOLT BULBS (3.8V) | |
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91158 6 VOLT BULBS (6.3V) | |
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91769 BATTERY HOLDER | |
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38806 KNIFE SWITCH, DOUBLE POLE DOUBLE THROW | |
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38808 KNIFE SWITCH, DOUBLE POLE SINGLE THROW | |
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38805 KNIFE SWITCH, SINGLE POLE SINGLE THROW | |
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38811 SOCKET | |
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91813 TELEGRAPH KEY |
So your local highway department guys think they have the corner on crossing signs? Well, they may know what's crossing their road, but do they really know what's cutting across your driveway or patio, or through your personal space at home or at work? Mount your own well-made indoor/outdoor critter crossing sign. Each is metal, 12" square, painted traffic yellow with a black border and realistic animal or other graphics. Each hangs diagonally from a pre-drilled 1/4" hole.
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94016 BIGFOOT CROSSING | |
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94151 CHICKEN CROSSING | |
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94150 FROG CROSSING | |
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91718 PENGUIN CROSSING |
Everything about this magnifying glass is big. Really big. Hence the name. A approx 6" dia lens provides 2x magnification. The frame is metal, and the handle is 6" long and made of metal. Ostensibly handheld, but with a nearly-inch-thick glass lens, it's heavy enough to give your lower arm muscles a big workout.
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91010 REALLY BIG MAGNIFIER |
We have a gaggle of sprockets, all plastic, all made to handle #25 chain (which has 1/4" spacing between adjacent links.) In the listing below, we list them by the number of teeth and nominal diameter x bore diameter. Further details of mounting and fastening are explained in the comments.
| Dia. x Bore | Teeth | ||||
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23060 SPROCKETS | 1-1/16" x 1/4" | 12 | Details |
Very pretty. Very graceful. These clear-glass 2.2 volt, .25 amp bulbs are a wavy, flame shape 1-1/2" tall and 5/8" dia at the widest point. The base is candelabra size. They work fine on 3 volts (2"AA") at .32 amps. For a special look, hook (50) up in series and use them at 120 VAC. Order extras, because we don't think you'll find little pretties like these at your local hardware store.
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33794 CANDELABRA BULBS |
Direct that power right where you want it. Inside the metal box are a couple of gears and shafts, what counts, though, is the way it lets you turn a shaft at a 90° angle, with no loss of power. 1/4" splined shaft couplings, male at one end and female at the other. 2" x 1-3/4" x 1" thick overall.
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27440 RIGHT ANGLE DRIVE |
A good dowel is always a good buy, and we’ve got some good dowels at great prices! These wood dowels come a variety of Asian hardwoods including Sesendok, Geronggang and Yellow Merantis. They are a very nice blonde color and moderately heavy. The dowels are strong, stainable, and warp–resistant. All are 12” long; a package is (22) 1/8” dia dowels, (10) 1/4” dia, (5) 1/2” dowels.
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91021 12" DOWEL,1/2" DIA | |
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91019 12" DOWEL,1/4" DIA | |
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91017 12" DOWEL,1/8" DIA |
An 11/16" long x 7/16" ID T-3-1/4 steel socket for candelabra bulbs. Two tabs come up from the bottom to panel-mount it. Add power through another tab bent downward and one extending out to the side.
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34248 CANDELABRA SOCKET |
These liquid crystal displays are raring to go. As soon as we can get Mary Ann to stop playing with them we'll pick out (5) assorted displays for you. (She keeps zapping them with static electricity to see what pops up. Mary Ann is easily amused.) Sizes range from 1-3/16" x 2" to a few as large as 5" x 10". They're unused. Some have pin leads, some have traces right on the wafer. Either way, they're a terrific bargain.
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34244 LIQ CRYS DISPLAY |
The kids need presents for all the grandmas and great-aunts? You volunteer at the nursing home and need token gifts for your L-O-Ls? And your eyes aren't so good, either? Our each is really half a dozen pretty little magnifiers with round lenses and fancy handles. The handles are silver-bright (hard to believe they're aluminum) and all different. Each has a discreet hole in the tip for a jump ring so it could be worn on a necklace -- but it would look just as pretty on a desk. The overall length of the (6) magnifiers varies from about 3-3/4" to 5", the lenses from 1-1/4" to 1-3/4" dia. All are approx 2X magnification. Mary Ann's pick of the month.
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92544 CLASSY MAGNIFIERS |
You need this. Anybody who's ever made a third trip to the hardware store on the same day needs this. The (100) -- count 'em, (100) -- chrome vanadium driver and bit attachments include slotted, Phillips, square (Robertson) head, torx, hex and 12-point bits, plus security Phillips, torx and hex, and (4) different driver adapters (one of which, a super-cute cup-hook driver, has us oddly excited). They're all in a flip-top plastic case. How come it's surplus? If you turn it upside down and shake it, some of the bits fall out of their little size-marked slots. So don't do that. Or stick a thin sheet of foam inside it and all will be well.
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92581 100-PIECE SECURITY BIT SET |
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