bulbs that melt in the heat of being ALIGHT wtf?

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in the past i have been cavaliar abt the wattage of bulbs i put in desk lamps -- they say "60W" and i use 100W cz i work better in the bright, and the socket of the cheapy cheap desklamp eventually goes brittle and come apart and i have to get a new desklamp

ok so in a spasm of grown-upness i bought a buncha DESKLAMP specific little 60W bulbs so as to husband the world's deskplamp supplies -- since when THREE of them have in the past month just FALLEN OUT OF the lamp, the glass dome bit come adrift from the screw-in bit (which i then have to unscrew gingerly w.pliers)

i have NEVER ENCOUNTERED this before: is it common?

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 4 February 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

(i mean literally dropping out, the bulb that has driven me to post fell out of the lamp that overlooks the cooker right into my scrambled egg as i wz makin it this morning!!)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 4 February 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

haha:

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/leoni/img10381166658.jpeg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 4 February 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

start a museum

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda like that lamp.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

This one reminds me of an over-easy egg, which is always a plus:

http://gfconcrete.com/propaganda/img/int01_1.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

the ~~gravity~~ seriousness of this consumer issue is not being addressed!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

But we are lazy and like cheap laughs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

i shall grind up my fallen bulbs and spinkle them in yr grittier foodstuffs

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 February 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

But there's enough sand in my spinach already!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 February 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

the britishes will answer me for sures

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 February 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea but you've reminded me of when I was a kid and my parents couldn't work out why light bulbs kept exploding around the house. It was, of course, because I was flicking water at them.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 6 February 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

this british say 'wtf'

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 6 February 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a bloglight this morning. I hope it does not melt. But if it does, it is ALREADY a blob.

It sounds like you have just bought cheapo lamps, Mark. Stay away from Ikea!

― Press Rip And Give Me The MP3 Out Of It (kate), Monday, 6 February 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

bloglight?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 6 February 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

you have purchased neil young lightbulbs, mark. soon they will start singing to you plaintively about love and hardship while you're just trying to make some cheese on toast.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 6 February 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

BWAH HAH HAH HAH, Freudian slip there. Bloblight.

― Press Rip And Give Me The MP3 Out Of It (kate), Monday, 6 February 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Stay away from Ikea? Bollocks, I spent half of Sunday there and came back with two lamps :(

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

my ikea reading light is ok, kmmmv.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

ikea lamps look nice but fail fast: the lamps i have are from john lewis i think -- I STILL BLAME THE BULBS!!

haha: time to retell a tale of hackney purchase joy -- in the second nearest all-purpose mops dishes and binbags store, there is a shelf for what we are discussing -- my attention wz drawn to it (this is abt a year ago) by a hand-lettered cardboard sign reading simply: "BLUB" !!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

BLUB!!! Clearly I need to purchase a blub for my bloblight.

John Lewis? really? I would have thought them better quality non-melting lamps.

― Press Rip And Give Me The MP3 Out Of It (kate), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

There actually exists a thread on lamps + cookery => I cannot resist posting a lamp I got as a present from my mum:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/flue.jpg + http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/te.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/mygg.jpg

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

I have had bulbs fall apart in this manner before, yes. I was unnerved.

I am not cavalier about wattages, because the smell of overheating lighting fixtures can be very unpleasant.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 9 February 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

it's the cheapo bulb and lamp combo - I have had it a bunch of times too. I was buying generic no-name bulbs and putting into cheap desk lamps. Solved it by getting the Florescent twirly longlife bulbs that don't get so hot, yet project higher wattages/lumins so better lighting. I was skeptical at 1st, as I HATE Florescent lights, however these don't seem to give off the nasty Florescent glare, perhaps because they in a desk lamp and not overhead? They are a little pricey, but last forever and can be put into cheapo desk lamps (even the $9 jobs sold at office supply stores.)

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 9 February 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

yes that is a v.good idea wiggy, tho hard to follow up when buyin emergency replacement lamps or bulbs in cheapjack shops in hackney: EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE BULBS FAILED IN THE SAME WAY, and i fcked up three (crappy) desklamps into the so-called bargain

i shd have made a note of the maker to name and shame on the interweb, but i threw the box away early in the precedure

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

feb 9 = sistrah becky's bday btw! we had chinese w.dr vick and everyone!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I never posted here! I have a scar, on my hand, from this.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 26 March 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

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