From: Jeff Wisnia




Paul A wrote:

"A" wrote in message news:k1Fqb.327388$pl3.158331@pd7tw3no...
I was reading an electrical book titled "Your Old Wiring" by Shapiro.
Fantastic book by the way - see if your library has a copy of it if you
want
to learn about wiring in older houses.

There is a paragraph discussing replacing incandescent bulbs with compact
flourescents. The author was saying that the replacement flourescent
bulbs
can lead to socket damage due to the weight of teh compact flourescecnts
and
the heat that their ballasts produce.

Personally I've not run into any problems (yet) with my compact
flourescents - and I was wondering if anyone else has?



I had some problems about 12 years ago with CFs being too heavy for some
inexpensive lamp sockets , pulling the shell
out of the base, but CFs are much lighter and smaller now and none of the
current ones have given any problems like that.

Boy, those had to be some pretty poorly made sockets, I've never hesard of
such
a thing. Can you describe their construction?

Jeff Wisnia

Probably the same lamp sockets that sometimes fall apart even while using
standard "A" lamps - the thin fake brass shell with the paper insert that
simply snaps into it's base, the base having the threaded nipple to accept the
lamp stem.