Aloha David, I am truly a chicken when it comes to electricity. When someone broke one of my light bulbs off in the socket, I used a pair of heavy rubber dishwashing gloves. Worked great! Betsy At 04:26 PM 2/24/2007, you wrote: >Oh, yeah, I learned a lesson. Thing is, I was being _very_ careful. I knew >those bulbs were there. I just made a mistake... Or two. > >Actually the shelves turned out great - just short two lights for the sighted >peeps that want to access the garage. Smile. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Jay Williams >Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:09 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Fuses and light bulbs > > >Hi, David >The electrical hazard is the easiest one to eliminate provided you know >which controls these lights and can be sure when it's on or off. The >maddening part is dealing with the glass component of the broken bulbs. >Obviously, the glass won't tolerate the amount of torque required to remove >the bulbs unless they happened to be fairly loosely screwed in. You need to >protect yourself from flying shards while you clear the glass away from the >metal stem and then you need a way of gaining purchase on its inner surface >so you can loosen it. I haven't had to do this, but I'd try taking a pair of >pliers and coating the ends with thin rubber or wind duct tape or some >equivalent roughening substance around the jaws, insert it where the >filament used to be, pull the handles out and keep tension on that action so >you have good purchase and then attempt to turns them out. But you've >learned a fantastic lesson, I hope. *Always take account of the space >required when handling objects of dimensions like that so you know what's in >their way. Once, while servicing a piano, I gave the front cover a nice >little flourish as I began to put it back and the end blithely ripped 6 >hammers off and I didn't feel a thing. I sher heard it, though, as those >buggers went skittering all the hell over the place including under the >piano. >Jay >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Engebretson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:53 PM >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Fuses and light bulbs > > > > So, I was working on making some big ass shelves in my garage... > > > > There are hanging light bulbs from the just under 8 foot ceiling, and my 8 >foot > > 2x4's knocked out two of them. Sigh. > > > > The fuse box has those screw in type of fuses and I don't want to tactally >feel > > around for a main switch or the fuses themselves for that matter. I'm a >woose > > when it comes to electricity. > > > > Is there a safe way for me to get those broken light bulbs out of their >sockets > > without throwing a switch or removing the fuses? > > > > Thanks, > > David > > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/699 - Release Date: 2/23/2007 >1:26 > > PM > > > > > > > > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > > or > > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various >List Members At The Following address: > > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man >list just send a blank message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yahoo! 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