The bayonet-style lightbulb in my living room light won't screw back in. I have stood on the damn ladder for 15 minutes at a time. It will not. Screw. Back. In. That 'click' moment just ain't happening. I have black soot stuff all over me.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 11 November 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)
Did the previous bulb come out easily?
― Mark C, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)
(I have so many of these, btw, I don't know where to start)
My electric shower sounds like a hornets nest (imagine me making that kind of mouth open, palms forward "well what the fuck do I do?" thing)
― Mark C, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)
Bayonet = push into the fixture and turn 1/4 - 1/2 turn to lock in? Get a flashlight and try to inspect the socket. See if there's an obvious way the bulb base should go. Make sure you are turning it in the correct direction.
Don't stick anything metal (or your fingers) into the base to suss it out unless you have completely disconnected the power.
― Jaq, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)
WTF is an electric shower???
This is the first time I've had to change this particular bulb. yes, I've been turning to lock in, and it just won't. Trying to work out where the actual clicky hole things are, to no avail. I've tried all directions.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)
Leccy shower: sounds like a professional job to me. Elec is scary. (And no, I am not putting my fingers in the socket).
― ljubljana, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)
An electric shower is when you don't have enough water pressure to power a normal shower - the water is drawn up by an electric pump, heated and then expelled through the shower head.
http://direct.tesco.com/pi/Enlarge/5/100-6615F.jpg
― Mark C, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)
All I can think of is that one of the metal teeth inside the light fitting has broken off, but I guess that would be clear by feel?
― Mark C, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)
Errr, hang on (goes to have a feel)
Err, maybe. i am not quite clear how it should feel. I rent and I'm gonna call the landlords. What a cop out.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)
x-post And HTF is a light socket sooty???
― nickn, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)
Okay, wow to the electric shower! Have never seen such a thing!
I'd get a qualified electrician to have a look at it - if it's buzzing, it might be a grounding issue.
― Jaq, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)
When light bulbs burn out they do that thing where the... bits... in the middle blacken. Maybe just decades of that happening?
― ljubljana, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)
Possibly just years of sooty motes landing up there. Electromagnetism and all that.
― Jaq, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)
Yeeeeesss... electromag... ermm... I dropped physics at 14.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 11 November 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)
"black soot" = crumbling bakelite socket if it's an old light fitting. So there's nothing left to hold the bulb in place. Definately needs to be replaced by your landlord's electrician.
― snoball, Sunday, 11 November 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)
aha! Ha! Thanks - brilliant. Send the bill for advice +VAT to my landlord please.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 11 November 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)