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Techs’ Specs You do close work? Slap on these eyeglass-style magnifiers and make your life a bunch easier. The plastic frames are 5-1/2” wide with adjustable interpupillary distance, 4-1/2” long temples and an adjustable 12”...

Oh, My Little Solder Boy... A big step up from the basic soldering iron, and much safer, our soldering station features continuously variable power between 5-40W, a 1.5mm pointed tip thin enough to use on surface-mounted components, a 4-foot cord, padded...

It doesn't get much cooler in the robotic-arm-kit game. The STEM educational arm is 15" tall x 9" long x approx 3-1/2" wide (once assembled, of course). It's 2-pronged hand opens to 1-3/4", lifts up to 3.5 oz (100g), swings 120 degrees at the wrist,...

This multi-use, all-purpose, tear-resistant, all-weather generally handy blue tarp is for covering up stuff. Measures 7 x 5 feet in .0085 thick plastic (polyethylene) with rust-proof aluminum grommets and a 1/16” poly rope inside the hem to give it...

KAPTON POLYIMIDE SIR! One promotion above 1st Lieutenant Polyimide? Nope-- tape material that makes duct tape hang its head in shame. Kapton polyimide is used in everything from flexible printed circuits, to the Apollo moon...

My, What Big Claws You Have... You know when you’re trying to pick up dead leaves and stuff like that from a soggy garden? That’s when you need these Garden Gloves with Claws. Don’t work your fingertips to nubs. Let the claws do the...

Cover That Tree! Cicada Protection! With our 58” long white mesh fruit tree cover, you’ll be able to keep your fruit (or whatever you’re growing) out of the mouths of bugs and other pests. When it’s zipped up, ie, when it’s...

Monster Flashlight... It's back! The mother (or Grandmother) of all flashlights! At a foot long, this extra-sturdy rechargeable LED COB flashlight shines an ultra-bright 5000 lumens and has the ability to charge your phone and other devices with its USB...

How about three extra hands? This incredible multi-purpose workstation tool has a very large 3X, 3-1/2" dia LED-lighted magnifier on a 10" gooseneck (you add 4 "AA" batteries), a soldering-iron stand, cleaning sponge plus steel wool, a canister of flux...

Chop, Bang And More! Inspector Gadget, MacyGver, James Bond... eat your collective hearts out! With this 13-in-1 Hatchet-Hammer Multitool, you’ll get the eponymous hatchet and hammer plus a flathead screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, pliers, saw,...

Has Your Coffee Graduated Yet? In the lab or kitchen, these clear borosilicate glass mugs have a handle and lip and remind you that science is part of your every day. The smaller 4-1/2" 400mL one has graduations in 50mL increments and the larger 6"...

It's Kinda Like A Periscope... We don’t know what to call this awesome gadget except for what the package calls it, the Adventures Scope. It’s a handheld digital viewer with an approx 1-3/4” x 1-1/4” LCD color screen and a...

Emergency Triangle... It’s like an electronic version of the red safety triangles you see on horse-drawn carriages, but this one is for auto emergencies. The Versa Beam© Emergency Floodlight measures 8” x 7” with (3) bright-white...

To Gaff or not to Gaff... Might want to get some of this assorted cloth gaffers’ tape in red, yellow, brown, green, silver and possibly other shades because it leaves no residue and has a non-reflective matte finish, on account of theaters and...

The Big Battery Bonanza! Tired of running out of power just when you need it? Stop digging for batteries! In the couch! In the junk drawer! Behind the fridge! (Hey, is that a Hershey’s Kiss still in the wrapper and totally fine to eat if we just...

ALL THE BETTER TO SEE YOU WITH... BLINDINGLY BRIGHT 22" long LED strip with LED driver. DIY'er dream! This COB filled PC board has (50) white COB LED's and measures at 22" long x 1-9/16" wide at its widest, with clearly marked power in/thru jumper...

Free-Range Soap! OK, maybe it’s not cage-free, but this bar soap is handmade on an Amish farm in Springfield, Missouri, using Abraham Graeber’s family recipe, which contains “no cancer-causing chemicals,” and is vegan, gluten...

Scrub-a-dub dub, 10 scrubbers scrubbing the tub. What we have here are scrubbers in packs of two. You know the kind, just under 4" diameter by just over 1" thick. 30 gram says right on the cases. You will get (5) packs of (2) and you are gonna love their...

AS&S PENSTYLUS LEVELRULER DRIVER... It’s a ninefer. This 6” long x 1/2” hex ball-point pen has a rubber stylus at the other end, which unscrews to reveal a tiny driver with both small Phillips and regular heads, while the shaft has...

The Insect Terminator... Looks like a cheap kid-sized tennis racket, but brother, this ain't for the kids. It's actually a fine way for adults to work on their upper-body strength and kill bugs at the same time. 18" long, with a 6" wide paddle lined with...

Dad it's hot in here! Ahhh, Summertime. We can still hear Dad saying, “Don't touch that thermostat—it stays at 85 degrees!” And that was before it got really hot. But he never minded when we turned on this Farpoint® 4,500-lumen,...

Make Pretty Colors In The Fire... Just toss this little pack, unopened, into a wood fire and watch all the pretty colors. (For you chem majors, it contains 25 grams of cupric sulfate, cupric chloride and PVC crystals.) And do we have to tell you not to...

If you had a 10-foot loaf of bread, these would be the only way to close the plastic bag. They're 34" long x 1/2" dia with flexible metal cores covered by a thick layer of foam that grips tightly. Tie up big tools and cables, make ad hoc hooks, tie down...

The Science of Exercise... Coolest science exercise toy ever! A (blue) ball is mounted on an axle inside of a (2-3/4") transparent sphere. Start the inner ball whirling with the included string (getting a great laugh out of the poorly translated...

Hey, there’s two words you don’t see next to each other that often: comfy hemostat. This one feels really nice in the fingers because of its black, rubber-coated handle. The whole stainless-steel tool is about 7-1/2" long with a 7/8”...

Move Your Butt... These brand-spanking new 12VDC motors are made to move automobile seats but are willing to change. They spin at approx 190 rpm, draw 1.5A no load, and stall at approx 25A. Threaded shaft is at a right angle and is 4-1/8" x 7/16". Shaft...

Metalpecker... Behold our version of the gravity-fed sliding woodpecker. Ours is a 1-3/4" standard black woodpecker, not counting his cute red plume, slowly pecking his way down a 16-1/2" tall metal rod. His super-rapid, lifelike pecking action is...

The Glowing Hand... What scratches your back but won't provide breakfast for you? It's our glow in the dark back scratcher of course. Has chicken like talon "hands" and extends to over 26” long, but shrinks to a pocket-sized 8-1/4”. Super...

Why does Roger always get the credit for the skull and crossbones pirate flag? We feel it is time to share and have elected Barry to the post because he just walked by the vast editorial department here at A.S.&S. (AKA "my desk") Our Jolly Barry flag...

Fascinating Fun With Diffusion... Twist the barrel of this green laser pointer and watch the diffraction lens multiply the dots and spin them in fascinating kaleidoscopic patterns. Perfect for rave parties, DIY discos, or getting kicked out of movie...

It's a Little Gem! Actually, it's a set of (36) different little polished gemstones and minerals from around the world, all identically sized (approx 1/2" x 3/8" x 1/8" thick), mounted and identified by name and origin on an 8" x 10" card. Super nice at...

Magical Micro Bits... And we do mean micro. Sizes #61 to #80 (yes, that is twenty different bits) which are from 0.013 to 0.038 inches diameter!! The big boys sell a set of similar bits (carbon steel, like ours) for about $30.00!! We like our prices...

Fire away! No reason to cringe with this control tip syringe (our terrible rhymes, on the other hand…). Seriously, though, it’s easy to give something your best shot with this comfy (2) finger-hole-and-thumbhole grip. Syringe is 6-1/2" long...

If they're 10 or older, and mad for science, get them this Chemistry Lab Kit from Edu-Science, with chemicals, equipment and a manual for over (80) experiments. Includes copper sulfate, sodium carbonate, calcium carbonate and hydroxide, copper foil,...

High tech comes to Am Sci & Surp!! It is here in the form of a Peltier junction, a thermo-electric device that translates electric power into heat, and perversely, into cool. Apply current @ 3-12 VDC to the gizmo and it extracts thermal energy from one...

Think Inside The (Electrical) Box... Project box par excellance! All metal constriction, this beauty is hinged and measures 12" x 11-1/4" x 3-15/16". Has 6 mounting lugs inside and a 3-position terminal block screwed into the housing. Has a divider that...

Game, Set, UFO... Who doesn’t love ironic socks? We have a great pair here, white with (2) thin black stripes for that classic 1970s tennis look. The kicker is, there’s a yellow alien head on the side with the words WE ARE THE WEIRDOS beneath...

Nifty device that takes maxi air and squeezes it down into a mini condition. The device is roughly 6-1/2"" long x 6" tall x 4" wide. It has a 10 ft. cord that plugs into an auto lighter socket: i.e. it runs on 12VDC @ 10 amps. Air output is via a 12"...

It’s easy with this pair of focusable, 3-mode mini-flashlights. Slide to focus the beam on both, or push the bottom button to switch from max power to strobe to 300-lumen COB LED floodlight from the side. Each runs 5 hours on an included...

The Gas Is Coming! Not everybody has a voice as strong as Paul Revere, so in later wars, U.S. soldiers spun a Gas Attack Rattle, just like this reproduction, to warn of impending gas attacks. It’s kind of like a serious, extra-large, wooden...