On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:43:46 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

Filaments use a fortune in electricity and are very hot so tend to

damage the light socket.

What?? I have never seen a heat damaged lamp socket.

Good grief how have you managed to avoid that? Never used tungsten
bulbs?

Daughters beside lamp failed the other night, the "bakerlite" lugs
for the bayonet had just broken, weakened by the heat.

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Cheers
Dave.