On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:52:19 -0400, the opaque Brian Lawson
clearly wrote:

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:15:23 -0500, Don Foreman

BIG SNIP

I don't mind doing a wipe with a paper towel. Heck, I even smear
anti-sieze on aluminum lightbulb bases (scrwed into aluminum sockets)
to make them easy to extract when they die. Works a treat with baby
spots in track lights with no finger room.

Hey Don,

I've sure got to agree about the "stickiness" of aluminum base to
aluminum sockets, especially in 100 watt or greater and/or high-heat
operational bulbs. But how do you "apply" the anti-seize? I'd have
it all over the ceiling, and/or track-work, and/or lamp-shade, and/or
globe, and/or ladder, or, or, or, or, AND whatever else is within 6
feet if I did it the way I do a bolt or stud!!

Brian, he said "lighbulb bases" (male part), not sockets. I just tried
it and about a split-pea amount of aluminum anti-seize is enough for a
couple bulbs. I think I'll cut down an acid brush for use with
anti-seize to keep it off my fingers. That stuff is truly pervasively
messy!


Good tip though. Thanks.

Yeah, thanks, Don.


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