How Many People Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb on the Forum?

[Philrob27Participant @philrob27]

Back in the day (1976) when I was a electrical apprentice I was informed by one lecturer that there was no such thing as a light bulb.
They were lamps and bulbs you planted in the garden.

One lesson I never forgot.

[derek hall 1Participant @derekhall1]

Hopper……your post……that was brilliant!

all the best

Derek

[Anonymous]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 17/02/2021 12:25:25:l THOSE 6 to stop being idiots.

• 36 People to post pics of their own light bulbs.

…. large, with multiple views.

 

104 people to reply to comments in those posts (over) quoting the text and fully quoting the pics each time.

57 people to reply to those replies (fully quoting the pics each time)

40 people ……..

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[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Philrob27 on 11/03/2022 18:01:48:

… I was informed by one lecturer that there was no such thing as a light bulb….

He was quite wrong, many bulbs are less heavy than others…

Dave

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Hopper –

Wonderful!

Especially if the said bulb is for a standard 240 lamp in the UK, for then the Light-Bulb Making and Fitting Committee, Team Leader, Project Manager, et al would suddenly find it won't fit because it should have a British Standard Bayonet fitting, not an Edison Screw-thread!

I used to know a professional electrician who would take us all here to task anyway, for he said one of his apprenticeship college lecturers always insisted on correct terms: Lamp or Luminaire (I think) not Bulb –

Lamps Glow, Bulbs Grow,

was the instructor's mantra!

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Posted by JasonB on 11/03/2022 16:35:50:

Posted by Mike Poole on 11/03/2022 16:31:31:

I assume we are actually discussing the changing of a lamp

Mike

So you are one of the 15 mentioned in Jimmy's post half way down the first page

Also hope it's been changed by now

Well I did a speed read of the thread and missed that one, as an apprentice electrician it was often brought up that lightbulbs are lamps. I hold my hand up as one of the lamp lightbulb pedants but only for the fun value.

Mike

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Mike Poole on 11/03/2022 21:32:40:

Posted by JasonB on 11/03/2022 16:35:50:

Posted by Mike Poole on 11/03/2022 16:31:31:…

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… I hold my hand up as one of the lamp lightbulb pedants …

Mike

 

Disaster looms, if lightbulb is wrong we'll have to ban lighthouse and lightship as well. And I shall never have another light bulb moment again.

This will have to change as well:

Dave

 

 

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[Kiwi BlokeParticipant @kiwibloke62605]

…meanwhile, a recent ex-president claims that reports of dead and sick lightbulbs are fake news. Regular washing in dilute bleach will prevent them from getting sick or dying.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 11/03/2022 22:26:04:

Posted by Mike Poole on 11/03/2022 21:32:40:

Posted by JasonB on 11/03/2022 16:35:50:

Posted by Mike Poole on 11/03/2022 16:31:31:…

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… I hold my hand up as one of the lamp lightbulb pedants …

Mike

 

Disaster looms, if lightbulb is wrong we'll have to ban lighthouse and lightship as well. And I shall never have another light bulb moment again.

This will have to change as well:

Dave

 

 

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 11/03/2022 22:26:46

I thought Cragside laid claim to being the first house in the world to be lit by electricity (albeit using Swan’s bulbs/lamps).

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[PatJParticipant @patj87806]

I read an interesting factoid about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Bids were requested for lighting and power for the exposition from Edision and Westinghouse.

At the time, Edison controlled the patent on the incandescent light bulb, and so Westinghouse had to create their own unique light bulb in order to place their bid.

Westinghouse won the bid by a very large margin, and between Westinghouse's 3-phase display and the Westinghoue 3-phase generators and distribution for all of the lighting and power the exposition, this basically laid to rest which system would become the dominant power system in the world (ie: the question of which system to use: Edison and his DC system, or Westinghous/Tesla with their modern 3-phase system).

After the electrification of Niagra Falls, the Edison system was no longer in contention for any serious electrical uses.

Westinghouse was purchases by Eaton (not too many years ago), and many of the Eaton products are basically moderized versions of what was demonstrated at the Exposition in 1893.

No animals were harmed in the making of this post, and hopefully some whales were saved.

Edit:  Edison did electrocute an elephant in a horrible attempt to discredit the Westinghouse system, and I must say, Edison did not have much of a conscience.  You can still find that terrible video online.

Edison should have been jailed for that stunt.

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[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

You are all missing the point of using environmentally friendly, organic, bioluminescent, androgynous bulb genera.
You may have to wait a while…
this

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit/description

pgk

[HowiParticipant @howi]

A few hundred to discuss all the ways, right and wrong, that it should be done, and one to actually change the bulb while the rest are discussing it.

Surely, thats normal for this forum, isn;t it?

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by derek hall 1 on 11/03/2022 18:28:07:

Hopper……your post……that was brilliant!

all the best

Derek

Haha. I had forgotten about that. Thanks. I should do this stuff for a living. Seems particularly relevant today with the current thread on Colchester Vs Warco lightbulbs, er I mean lamps, no wait, lathes… Some things never change.

Edited By Hopper on 12/03/2022 12:00:16

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, begging everyone's pardon, but I always thought a lamp is a device that gives light by burning oil with a wick, or a gas with a mantle or an electric bulb with a holder and shade or a cover, so it's a bulb that needs changing in an electric lamp when it fails, unless you like throwing the whole lamp out and buying a new one.

Regards Nick.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

My dad's shop (into the early 80s) had a very large light bulb in one of the junk rooms upstairs. Said bulb had a very large black, carbon, filament. It still worked, but didn't get used much.

I have some Ediswan transistors somewhere. testament to the two men's cooperation.

Neil

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Posted by PatJ on 12/03/2022 00:25:29:

No animals were harmed in the making of this post, and hopefully some whales were saved.

But millions of electrons were mildly inconvienenced

[GreensandsParticipant @greensands]

Being brought up in Woking, Surrey I well remember the Co-Operative building, a modern looking structure built in the late 30's but now long gone. It had I think three floors and a stair case surrounding the stair well from the top floor to the basement and during WW2 the good citizens of Woking were encouraged to bring in their dud light bulbs and drop them from the top floor down onto the tiled flooring below making a very satisfactory bang. If I remember correctly there was also a swastika marked out on the floor used as a target. Can you just imagine what Health and Safety would say about this sort of thing now!

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

And suddenly we find someone has crept in at some point a few pages back and discreetly replaced the failed component with its identity crisis, all alone, because all the rest of us were too busy discussing the task actually to perform it…..!

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Greensands on 13/03/2022 18:11:50:

Being brought up in Woking, Surrey I well remember the Co-Operative building, a modern looking structure built in the late 30's but now long gone. It had I think three floors and a stair case surrounding the stair well from the top floor to the basement and during WW2 the good citizens of Woking were encouraged to bring in their dud light bulbs and drop them from the top floor down onto the tiled flooring below making a very satisfactory bang. If I remember correctly there was also a swastika marked out on the floor used as a target. Can you just imagine what Health and Safety would say about this sort of thing now!

Now, that's entertainment, that is. Netflux? Interwebs? Who needs 'em?

Would this have been an effort to separate the glass and the brass/metal bases for wartime recycling?

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Hopper on 14/03/2022 11:10:14:

Posted by Greensands on 13/03/2022 18:11:50:

Being brought up in Woking, Surrey I well remember the Co-Operative building, a modern looking structure built in the late 30's but now long gone. It had I think three floors and a stair case surrounding the stair well from the top floor to the basement and during WW2 the good citizens of Woking were encouraged to bring in their dud light bulbs and drop them from the top floor down onto the tiled flooring below making a very satisfactory bang. If I remember correctly there was also a swastika marked out on the floor used as a target. Can you just imagine what Health and Safety would say about this sort of thing now!

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Would this have been an effort to separate the glass and the brass/metal bases for wartime recycling?

And the Tungsten, which is needed for making HSS and armour piercing shells.

I wonder if the swastika was already part of the building? Fylfot crosses were perfectly respectable decorations until the far-right brought the symbol into massive disrepute.

Health and Safety wouldn't mind bulb dropping provided reasonable precautions were taken to keep it safe. It's irresponsible slack Alice events they don't like. Not good for organisers to be over-confident chumps who just do stuff without identifying and mitigating the risks.

Dave

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I was just wondering today when electricity started its journey to becoming essential for normal life. Particularly in relation to the telephone and in my village. Although the electricity and phone lines march up the lane on the same poles for some reason at the edge of my garden they diverge and come in on different sides necessitating two poles one each side. So which came first and why diverge at this point? The electricity people trim the trees their side but the phone line used them as support – until Eunice. So currently no wire and using a BT supplied mobile minihub. We didn't get piped water until the '30s so imagine electricity came later, but would people have installed a phone while still reading by oil lamp?

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

truly rural areas probably only got mains electricity post WW2, phones would be too expensive for most even if there were sufficient cables, phone boxes were the usual – telephones were in very short supply until quite late in the 1960s (I remember we had to be content with a party line for many years)

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