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I just went to turn on the light at the top of the stairs and the bulb blew. Now, usually when this happens, it blows the circut and sometimes it makes a small popping sound. This time there was a series of clanks and the whole of the glass portion of the lightbulb landed at my feet. I was completely mystified. What made the metal collar pop off? Why is none of the bulb broken, seeing as it bounced down a flight of stairs and landed on the kitchen floor? And most importantly, how the HELL am I going to get the metal cuff out of the fitting? It's a bayonet bulb, and the fitting is quite fiddly and difficult to get bulbs in and out of anyway. I'm not interested in ringing an electrician just to get a damn bulb fixing out, but I'm not interested in sticking a pair of pliers in an electrical fitting either. Even if I turn it off at the breaker. Not in a country with 220V electricity anyway.

WTF?

Music:: Cowboy Junkies

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Oh good grief - how can that happen? You must have special magic powers... *shuffles a little bit further away* ;)

As long as the pliers have got rubber/plastic handles, you should be alright, especially if you turn the power off at the breaker. Um, don't forget a torch if you do that?

And do you just have ridiculously thick carpeting down your stairs? Or is it a special bouncy bulb, for those blow-out emergencies? yes, we guarantee that no matter how high the staircase and how big the blow-out, this baby will bounce

*reads back* think I may be getting slightly silly because I'm hungry...

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We have the thinnest most crap carpet in the world on our stairs. A bedsheet would be thicker I think. It's lack of breaking was a mystery.

My pliers have metal handles, but I might have something that could be made to work. My ex father-in-law's tales of electrocuting himself every time he tried to do anything have put me off fiddling.

I'll deal with it in the morning when it's light. Crazy light bulbs.

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Do you think there will be some sort of residual electricity in the circuits if you turn it off at the fuse box? Seems more like a mishap that muight happen in plumbing, with something that has mass, like water.

If you don't feel like calling an electrician, how about any male friend to whom you could bat your eyelashes and say you're not sure you can cope with the big bad demon ekeltricity? Ideologically unsound, I know, but works every time in my book...

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My male friends are of the batting eyelash variety themselves. I'm the one who they need to borrow tools off when something goes awry at their houses. It's not so much residual electricity I'm worried about, as the desperately confusing array of circuts, there is no logic to what has been put on the same breaker, so I am not sure I would turn off the right thing.

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My male friends are of the batting eyelash variety themselves

I don't think I've mentioned lately how very much I love you, or if I have, hear it again please:

How. Very. Much. I. Love. You.

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eyelash-batting bumboys. I choose my friends carefully.

;)

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Can't beat an eyelash-endowed arse-bandit. Well of course you can... As I think we've proved. *g*

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*is happy*

I love you, just in case you forget.

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Can't you turn them all off?

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My eyelash-batting male friends, being of the theatrical (or operatic) persuasion, are actually DIY fiends, having mucked in in various productions, so appealing to their aMAZing competence works just fine (applause! applause! they just love applause!...)

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My eyelash batting friends work in educational software production, osteopathy, nursing, and the DVD section of Virgin megastores. Not a DIY fiend in the bunch. Though three of them at least do have truly amazing eyelashes. What I need is my brother, though as he's on the other side of a rather large ocean, I don't think that's going to happen. Or else I need

victorian_tweed and useful weblinks.

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In this winter season, and considering how low the dollar has fallen, it's entirely possible that flying your brother over might come less expensive than getting an actual electrician to make a house call...

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Here's a how-to on removal:

http://www.ehow.com/how_116446_remove-broken-lightbulb.html

I had a lightbulb explode on me once, leaving the metal collar. I got it out, but it probably wasn't the safest of things I've done. There was much swearing involved, also.

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Thank you darling!! I've a pair of ridiculously heavy rubber gloves, that are probably electrically insulating as well as nearly glassproof. This is a ceiling spot, that's really hard to get to, but if I get the ladder and B's help, I can probably do it when daylight comes.

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Ooh are you sure you should go up a ladder with your vertigo? *frets*

Can you send B up the ladder instead?

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Yes, the plan was for b to go up the ladder and me to hold it. I haven't told him the plan yet.

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Ohhh, good! *thumbs up*

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