
Nothing to it with William Gurstelle's "Backyard Ballistics," a soft-cover, 169pp compendium by an engineer on constructing rockets, cannons (carbide and spud), flingers, tennis ball mortars, balloons, fire kites, and other intriguing devices, all with common household materials. The detailed text includes parts lists, illustrated instructions, photos and quite sensible and necessary safety precautions. From Chicago Review Press.
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92823 BACKYARD BALLISTICS |
Big ol' bunch of markers. Six dozen (72) wedge-tipped art makers, 5-1/2" long with 3/16" tips, in black, grey, brown, dark and light blue, yellow, orange, green and pink - more of some colors than others. The surplus angle? The (12) pink ones are dried out. Which leaves (60) that are all moist, happy, and ready to mark. Made in the USA.
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35492 BOX O MARKERS |
And orange, too. You'll get (5) highlighters of each color - 3/16" wedge tips, 5-3/4" long with matching caps, and a price that's extra nice.
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36821 NEON HIGHLIGHTERS |
Wanna make your own leather clothes? Start with this 3-piece leather punch set with (2) eyelet punches, 4mm and 9mm, plus a rotary leather punch that makes 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, and 4.5mm holes. Comes complete with a couple of dozen eyelets for the 4mm and 9mm holes. When you're done, lend them to the old man to let out that belt of his.
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92967 LEATHER PUNCH SET |
Plus illustrated disease explications. "The Complete Portfolio of Human Anatomy and Pathology" has (50) full-color, laminated charts on heavy stock, and more than (425) illustrations dense with information and insets. Spiral-bound between hard covers, the 11" x 14" charts are all individually removable. A wonderful reference book from Scientific Publishing, Ltd.
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93008 ANATOMY BOOK |
And you could be the person drawing it with this set of 24, 1/16" fineline markers in the full spectrum of colors. Non-toxic, 5-3/8" long, with white caps and an affordable-by-starving-artists price.
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93005 FINELINE MARKERS |
A straight edge with an inner enlightenment option. Seek Satori while you're drawing lines with this 9" long triangular clear-acrylic ruler filled with green, blue and pink wave-action fluids in (3) separate chambers.
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37489 TRI-COLOR RULER |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Cool kit to introduce the beginner (age 10+) to the fabulous world of electronics. You will learn the basics of putting together circuits through over 50 projects building actual devices like an alarm, a radio, a metal detector and much more. The simple but complete instructions explain voltage, current resistance etc. The kit is a giant "breadboard" and wires that can be connected to form the circuits as explained in the instructions…and all without soldering! A fabulous educational item at a fabulous surplus price!!
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29781 ELECTRONIC PLAYGROUND |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Forgive the misspelled title, this is one of the best educational kits that we have! Loaded with magnets, wires and a miscellany of other things (but no battery!) it has everything needed to perform over 30 experiments, build games and generally have hours and days of educational fun! The thirty page illustrated instruction/explanation booklet is complete for self- instruction. Ages 8 and up will have a ball!
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88776 KIT ELECTRO-MAGNETIX |
Plus, of course, the one you already know how to make, but imagine how sick your kids are of that one. This highly origamian, 120pp book has the plans for (25) ingenious paper airplanes, including some stunt fliers. Our favorite is The Flying Pig because you can make "when pigs fly" jokes at meetings and then use the agenda to construct it. Written by David Mitchell for PRC Publishing.
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93160 PAPER AIRPLANES |
From Lucent Books' series "Endangered Animals and Habitats," these hard-cover books, all 112pp, are heavily illustrated with B/W photos and drawings, and geared for a high school or bright junior high audience. Originally priced at over $20, they are dense with information, and include good indexes and bibliographies. You pick from among "Frogs and Toads”, “The Wetlands," and "Penguins."
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37678 "FROGS & TOADS" | |
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37681 "PENGUINS" | |
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37680 "THE WETLANDS" |
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