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Pocster Advanced Member

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Can’t get to tenant .

Bulb blown - but I don’t understand what’s going on here . I can see a b22 fitting but the bulb has no cover ? ( I.e glass covering gone )

This make sense to anyone ?

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Pocster Advanced Member

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31 minutes ago, Mattg4321 said:

Yeah the glass has fallen off or been smashed off. 
 

Just needs a new bulb and possibly a pair of pliers to remove the old one. 

Yeah - that’s what I thought . Tenant claimed no glass anywhere though 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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33 minutes ago, Mattg4321 said:

Yeah the glass has fallen off or been smashed off. 
 

Just needs a new bulb and possibly a pair of pliers to remove the old one. 

If you use pliers, And it's live, it goes boom. 

 

If you stuff in a potato and twist, it's safe and you don't cut your fingers, or damage the lamp holder

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34 minutes ago, FuerteStu said:

If you use pliers, And it's live, it goes boom. 

 

If you stuff in a potato and twist, it's safe and you don't cut your fingers, or damage the lamp holder

Tenant with pliers or tenant with potato - either way feels like an accident 🫤🤣

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Sure looks like one of those "halogen bulbs inside a regular bulb" but with the regular glass bulb missing. Might have been like that for ages as it will work without the outer glass.

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Pocster Advanced Member

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8 minutes ago, Temp said:

Sure looks like one of those "halogen bulbs inside a regular bulb" but with the regular glass bulb missing. Might have been like that for ages as it will work without the outer glass.

Ah ; I assumed it was recent I.e it wouldn’t work without the bulb .

Probably got broke during some extreme sex and alcohol party I wasn’t invited to 😞

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12 hours ago, FuerteStu said:

If you use pliers, And it's live, it goes boom. 

 

If you stuff in a potato and twist, it's safe and you don't cut your fingers, or damage the lamp holder

You’d like to think it goes without saying that anyone messing around with electrics will make sure it’s off first. Although I guess it could be a form of Darwinism in action. 
 

I’ve removed loads of these in seconds with pliers, but might try a potato next time - if I’ve got one in the van! Should it be a baby new potato, or perhaps a Maris piper?? I wonder what the difference in conductivity is between them! On second thoughts, perhaps not, as at least my pliers are 1000v insulated 😉😆

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7 hours ago, Mattg4321 said:

You’d like to think it goes without saying that anyone messing around with electrics will make sure it’s off first. Although I guess it could be a form of Darwinism in action. 
 

I’ve removed loads of these in seconds with pliers, but might try a potato next time - if I’ve got one in the van! Should it be a baby new potato, or perhaps a Maris piper?? I wonder what the difference in conductivity is between them! On second thoughts, perhaps not, as at least my pliers are 1000v insulated 😉😆

 

For the most part, not every house has vde pliers.. But most have a potato. It's why it's a great life hack

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8 hours ago, Mattg4321 said:

Should it be a baby new potato, or perhaps a Maris piper

Try a sequoia, it is pest resistant, might be electrically resistant.

Good for making chips as well.

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Pocster Advanced Member

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15 minutes ago, FuerteStu said:

 

For the most part, not every house has vde pliers.. But most have a potato. It's why it's a great life hack

Another great life hack is cling film when you can’t find a condom .

SteamyTea Advanced Member

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12 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

As "in" Richard Hammond? 😬

Quite possibly now.

Was just a saying when I was at school.

The one in Kent.

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1 hour ago, Pocster said:

Another great life hack is cling film when you can’t find a condom .

 

What about bubble wrap for the ribbed experience?

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39 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

What about bubble wrap for the ribbed experience?

I find the bubbles pop - destroys the experience. But ! Cling film and sand paper is a rough man’s dream . < await mods to step in because of dirty boys @SteamyTea and @Onoff (expletive deleted) ) 

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2 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

I now identify as a donkey. My pronouns are he and haw.

I worked with someone called Donkey.

He had a really bad stutter.  When I asked how he got his nickname, he pointed to the site foreman and said, "he haw, he haw was calls me that'.

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18 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

I worked with someone called Donkey.

He had a really bad stutter.  When I asked how he got his nickname, he pointed to the site foreman and said, "he haw, he haw was calls me that'.

I’m hung like a d….

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