On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 07:30:12 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:08:59 -0600, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

On 1/15/2015 6:15 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:14:33 -0600, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

On 1/14/2015 3:32 PM, Steve W. wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:45:56 -0600, "Paul K. Dickman"
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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Grease is an excellent idea. On a similar theme, I've been replacing
corroded light bulbs (with broken bulbs) in 2 different ladies' houses
recently and have used a skosh of either white lithium or vaseline on
the sockets and bases I'm putting the bulbs in. They won't have
another broken bulb again and all those gawdawful incans will be easy
to change from now on. One lady got so rambunctious that she ripped
up the socket base, too. This on a ladder 10' up in her house. She
had the concept OK, but you''re only supposed to put the needle nose
pliers on the broken bulb base and twist. She got both. Aluminum on
aluminum creates a sticky problem.

I use NO-OX grease, the stuff you use for Al wire. Mostly because I
bought a giant tube of it 20 years ago and it's still in my electric
toolkit and nearly full.

Somewhere, decades ago, they started making the bases on cheap bulbs
out of aluminum.
This wasn't a problem because they made the screw shell in the socket
out of brass or nickle.

Then they started cheaping out on the sockets too. Al on Al
(particularly in a base up configuration) is a recipe for problems.

Paul K. Dickman
Not a problem with the lights at our church - the bulbs have not been
lasting long enough for corrosion to set in!!! In the building 16
months and I've replaced half the bulbs already (and that's with less
than 6 hours a week use!!!)

What make are those bulbs???????

Switch to LED, at the rate you're swapping bulbs they would pay for
themselves in about a year!

I suspect the bulbs are special types - but LED's come in all shapes
now. Even Sams have flame lamps.

Martin
The bulbs are standard 100 watt edison base bulbs.

Lots of replacements available in LED.

Martin
yes, but there are over 40 of them and at least here in Canada 60 or
100 watt equivalents are still pricey. E still have a couple 8-packs
left - enough to relamp the rest with a few spares - picked up on sale
at thr ocal Home Hardware.

Give them away to churchgoers.

I've been paying $2-4USD per bulb direct from China, Singapore, and
Hong Kong via eBay. Yes, it's more expensive than incans, but the
church 1) won't have the expense of hiring someone to change them
every month. and 2) has a much lower running cost for the new LEDs.
It's a sound investment for the church of up to a mere $125, with a
ROI in under a year in most cases. Plus, it's a helluva lot less
hassle.

The 12w dimmables were my most expensive bulbs, at $3.99 ea, with free
shipping. I think I may stick with dimmables from now on, too, as
they are OK in motion detector and home automation circuits without
modification. The others strobe.

--
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw