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Default Gas discharge bulb

On 02/05/2018 08:54 PM, Fox's Mercantile wrote:
On 2/5/18 6:21 PM, tom wrote:

Be very careful with that lamp. They are under very high pressure and can
explode if dropped or scratched.


Note also numerous warnings about "DO NOT TOUCH"
Finger oils on the bulb can cause catastrophic failures.




Thanks


That much I knew, I wore clean cotton gloves.