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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default Screw in flourescent light bulbs.


Peter Hucker wrote:

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:14:26 -0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

What part of CFL lamps overheating and catching on fire goes right
over your head?


It only happens extremely occasionally.



A hell of a lot more often than with incandescent lamps. A lot of
incandescent fixtures are not designed for safe operation of CFL lamps.


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