Here's an idea for the furture. Beginning on January 1, 2012, the
stores wont be able to sell 100w incandescent light bulbs. But what
about kits to make your own. It dont say anything in the new
regulations about "kits", just the finished ready to use bulbs will be
banned.

The kits will come in two levels.

The first level will include the blown glass bulb complete with the
filament enclosed. You will just have to solder and glue the threaded
base to the bulb.

The second level will require the purchaser to construct the entire
bulb from raw materials.

This will not only be educational, but will furnish the average guy
something to do on their weekends to avoid boredom while watching
sports on tv. This will also save the average guy a fair amount of
money. Rather than spending money of things such as traveling, going
to bars, wilderness adventures, going to movies, sporting events,
dining, and and other things people waste their money doing on
weekends, they will instead spend all their free time making
lightbulbs for their homes. This is a project the whole family will
enjoy doing at the dining room table, using candles to see in the dark
evening hours during the winter holidays.

Isn't America great!

On Nov 18, 4:38*pm, wrote:
Here's an idea for the furture. *Beginning on January 1, 2012, the
stores wont be able to sell 100w incandescent light bulbs. *But what
about kits to make your own. *It dont say anything in the new
regulations about "kits", just the finished ready to use bulbs will be
banned.

The kits will come in two levels.

The first level will include the blown glass bulb complete with the
filament enclosed. *You will just have to solder and glue the threaded
base to the bulb.

The second level will require the purchaser to construct the entire
bulb from raw materials.

This will not only be educational, but will furnish the average guy
something to do on their weekends to avoid boredom while watching
sports on tv. *This will also save the average guy a fair amount of
money. *Rather than spending money of things such as traveling, going
to bars, wilderness adventures, going to movies, sporting events,
dining, and and other things people waste their money doing on
weekends, they will instead spend all their free time making
lightbulbs for their homes. *This is a project the whole family will
enjoy doing at the dining room table, using candles to see in the dark
evening hours during the winter holidays.

Isn't America great!

I like option # 1.

On 11/18/2011 2:38 PM, wrote:
Here's an idea for the furture. Beginning on January 1, 2012, the
stores wont be able to sell 100w incandescent light bulbs. But what
about kits to make your own. It dont say anything in the new
regulations about "kits", just the finished ready to use bulbs will be
banned.

The kits will come in two levels.

The first level will include the blown glass bulb complete with the
filament enclosed. You will just have to solder and glue the threaded
base to the bulb.

The second level will require the purchaser to construct the entire
bulb from raw materials.

This will not only be educational, but will furnish the average guy
something to do on their weekends to avoid boredom while watching
sports on tv. This will also save the average guy a fair amount of
money. Rather than spending money of things such as traveling, going
to bars, wilderness adventures, going to movies, sporting events,
dining, and and other things people waste their money doing on
weekends, they will instead spend all their free time making
lightbulbs for their homes. This is a project the whole family will
enjoy doing at the dining room table, using candles to see in the dark
evening hours during the winter holidays.

Isn't America great!


I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.


--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

On 11/18/2011 10:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.



Too bad, GE now sells 90w incandescent bulbs that put out more lumens
than the old style 100w...and they have a greater life span as well.

On Nov 18, 9:33*pm, Jack Hammer wrote:
On 11/18/2011 10:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.

Too bad, GE now sells 90w incandescent bulbs that put out more lumens
than the old style 100w...and they have a greater life span as well.

haven't seen them locally yet

"hr(bob) " wrote:
On Nov 18, 9:33 pm, Jack Hammer wrote:
On 11/18/2011 10:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.

Too bad, GE now sells 90w incandescent bulbs that put out more lumens
than the old style 100w...and they have a greater life span as well.

haven't seen them locally yet

Walmart has them...at least my local one does...but after using led bulbs
for a couple months now, the incandescents are pointless/wasteful

On 19 Nov 2011 13:46:19 GMT, pseudonym
wrote:


Walmart has them...at least my local one does...but after using led bulbs
for a couple months now, the incandescents are pointless/wasteful

Obviously you must be a wealthy doctor or lawyer to be able to afford
LED bulbs. Either that, or you used your life savings to buy them,
and will have no savings left for retirement.
Most of us cant afford them.

I get the biggest laugh out of the advertising for all these
alternative bulbs. Or should I not laugh and state their outright
lies. They say you will save all kinds of money on your electric
bills. Sure, you will save a few bucks, but you'll be spending 100%
to 50,000% more on lightbulbs. Those CFL bulbs are a minimum of $3
each, often more, compared to 25 cents for an incandescent. And dont
let them fool you, they dont last any longer, in fact most of the ones
I've used lasted less hours than the old standard bulbs.

You're not saving anything in the end.....
More likely spending MORE, often MUCH MORE.....

On Nov 19, 5:46*am, pseudonym wrote:
"hr(bob) " wrote:
On Nov 18, 9:33 pm, Jack Hammer wrote:
On 11/18/2011 10:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.

Too bad, GE now sells 90w incandescent bulbs that put out more lumens
than the old style 100w...and they have a greater life span as well.

haven't seen them locally yet

Walmart has them...at least my local one does...but after using led bulbs
for a couple months now, the incandescents are pointless/wasteful

But aren't LED still too expensive? Straight question

HB

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:33:33 -0500, Jack Hammer wrote:

On 11/18/2011 10:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.

I have close to that, though they're 60W clear. I have a house full of
fixtures that want 60W clear bulbs (only two 100W frosted, in the garage door
opener, IIRC).

Too bad, GE now sells 90w incandescent bulbs that put out more lumens
than the old style 100w...and they have a greater life span as well.

Rather irrelevant. I wouldn't have more than a dozen if Congress hadn't stuck
their nose where it doesn't belong.

"Jack Hammer" wrote in message
...
On 11/18/2011 10:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.



Too bad, GE now sells 90w incandescent bulbs that put out more lumens than
the old style 100w...and they have a greater life span as well.


Nice. I personally like the GE product and the price is about the same as
the old standard bulb. But the 90 watt doesn't meet the requirements that
kick in 1/1/12. They say that the max bulb wattage has to be 72 watts with
an output range of 1490-2600 lumens.

Tomsic

On 11/18/2011 9:33 PM, Jack Hammer wrote:
On 11/18/2011 10:11 PM, Steve Barker wrote:

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. I'm good to go.



Too bad, GE now sells 90w incandescent bulbs that put out more lumens
than the old style 100w...and they have a greater life span as well.

???

If that's the halogen bulb, they're like $5+/ea whereas incandescents
are $1-/ea.

I'm unaware that GE has a 90W incandescent; if I knew of it I'd be
looking as well as am just now in the process of placing a sizable order
for the precise reason they're going away.

GE at the time of the talk of and institution of the ban was working on
and thought they would have a high-efficiency incandescent that could
meet the standard but they pulled the plug (so to speak) on the R&D
effort in 2008 or thereabouts realizing it couldn't be done (or at least
it couldn't be done w/o such an extensive investment it didn't/wouldn't
pay).

AFAIK the 90W halogen won't meet the standard, either, not sure whether
it escapes the actual ban by being under 100W or not but I can't see it
surviving long in the market place at the price point.

--

On Nov 18, 7:11*pm, Steve Barker wrote:
On 11/18/2011 2:38 PM, wrote:









Here's an idea for the furture. *Beginning on January 1, 2012, the
stores wont be able to sell 100w incandescent light bulbs. *But what
about kits to make your own. *It dont say anything in the new
regulations about "kits", just the finished ready to use bulbs will be
banned.

The kits will come in two levels.

The first level will include the blown glass bulb complete with the
filament enclosed. *You will just have to solder and glue the threaded
base to the bulb.

The second level will require the purchaser to construct the entire
bulb from raw materials.

This will not only be educational, but will furnish the average guy
something to do on their weekends to avoid boredom while watching
sports on tv. *This will also save the average guy a fair amount of
money. *Rather than spending money of things such as traveling, going
to bars, wilderness adventures, going to movies, sporting events,
dining, and and other things people waste their money doing on
weekends, they will instead spend all their free time making
lightbulbs for their homes. *This is a project the whole family will
enjoy doing at the dining room table, using candles to see in the dark
evening hours during the winter holidays.

Isn't America great!

I prefer my idea. *I've already stockpiled 400 american made 100 w GE
bulbs. *I'm good to go.

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

Hey, you;re ahead of me, man! I'd better hit HD or Anawalt this
weekend.

HB

Hmm. Now, you need some freon, saturday
night specials, heroin, and crack cocaine. Go
into business. You'll make a fortune.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Steve Barker" wrote in message
...

I prefer my idea. I've already stockpiled 400
american made 100 w GE bulbs. I'm good to
go.


--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:18:58 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Hmm. Now, you need some freon, saturday
night specials, heroin, and crack cocaine. Go
into business. You'll make a fortune.


So this is what the sell at those Moron churches....
Oops, I meant MorMon.

wrote:
Here's an idea for the furture. Beginning on January 1, 2012, the
stores wont be able to sell 100w incandescent light bulbs. But what
about kits to make your own. It dont say anything in the new
regulations about "kits", just the finished ready to use bulbs will be
banned.


+1


Isn't America great!

Consider Michael Jackson: Where else could a poor black kid grow up to be a
rich white man and marry Elvis Presley's daughter?

Yes, indeed, America is a great place.

I thought he married Mac Culkin?

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"HeyBub" wrote in message
...

Consider Michael Jackson: Where else could a poor black kid
grow up to be a
rich white man and marry Elvis Presley's daughter?

Yes, indeed, America is a great place.

wrote in
:

will furnish the average guy
something to do on their weekends



You must be a homo.

A "guy" is not a "they", a "guy" is a "HE".

Politically-correct grade-school bucket-fillers are "they", and may not
even possess penises.


--
Tegger