In rec.woodworking, pyotr filipivich wrote:
This is sounding like one of Those Projects. Where it turns out
the easiest way to have solved it was to have taken the old bulb and
put it in a new house.

In computers there's a term "yak shaving" for trying to solve one simple
problem and getting diverted into a trail of fixing many other problems
uncovered in the process. The term comes from "Ren and Stimpy", but I
haven't seen enough of that to know more.

The TV show "Malcolm in the Middle" has a good example, also from
changing a light bulb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

Elijah
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no one wants to shave the yak but then you find you need to for reason X