Ways to extract a bulb from the cartridge.
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Quite often from the voltage difference and changes in humidity in the room, light bulbs burst. In this case, many difficulties arise with twisting the old and installing a new one. Since fragments stick out from the cartridge and it is quite dangerous to twist the base from the cartridge. In this article we will tell you how to deal with this problem.
What to do if the broken electric light is stuck in the cartridge?
Stuck a base in a cartridge
Instructions:
- First you need to de -energize the basement itself and the cartridge. You need to turn off the lamp, that is, the switch itself by clicking on the button. But a more reliable option is to turn off the machine.
- There will be no problems if it is daytime and lighting in the room is quite good, you see everything. But it happens that the light bursts at the most inopportune moment. That is, in the evening or at night.
- In this case, you will have to illuminate yourself with a flashlight or mobile phone. It is best of course, when there are several machines in the house and you can turn off a specifically separate room.
- At the same time, you can bring an extension cord from another room and connect a lighting source to it to work in a lit room. Now it is necessary to decide whether the fragments are sticking out of the cartridge or not.
- If so, you need pliers or pliers to remove these fragments. Do not forget to lay a bedspread or polyethylene on the floor, so that then not to step on the fragments for an hour and not scatter them throughout the room.
- There are several ways to remove the base from the cartridge. It happens that it is often welded, so it is quite difficult to pull it out by force. In this case, the procedure is complicated by the fact that there is nothing to grasp. And if the cartridge was welded, but the light bulb remains intact, with a slight pressing of the hand, the glass flask simply falls off and the base remains in the cartridge.
Stuck a base in a cartridge
How to twist the base of the bursting light from the cartridge: tips, life hacks
The easiest way that the electrician uses is to twist the basement using pliers or pliers. You can do the work with thin holes. They have tips in the form of tweezers, quite thin and sharp. It is possible to drive them between the cartridge and the base. This method is not always advisable to use, there are other, more effective, neat, unusual ways.
Stuck a base in a cartridge
The most interesting thing is that not all electricians know about these methods of twisting the basement from the cartridge. Here are a few options:
- Using a plastic bottle. The fact is that the circumference of the neck of the plastic bottle corresponds to the diameter of the basement. With a match or lighter, standing directly on a chair near the light bulb, you need to heat the neck of the bottle so that it starts to melt. After that, press it tightly to the basement and wait until the plastic froze again. After solidification, it will stick tightly to the basement and you can remove the bottle with twisting movements of the bottle along with a plastic bottle. This method is advisable to use if you have glass and stick out of the basement, you cannot or do not want to cut your hands during their removal. This method eliminates damage to electric shock, as there is no need to use metal items to extract a basement from the cartridge.
- Another unusual way is using the crust. This is a regular traffic jam. You need to slightly cut off its circumference in order for it to become the diameter of the basement. Insert the plug into the base tightly and twist. The method is suitable even if fragments stick out. These fragments will additionally strengthen everything. That is, the cork is good to join the basement, you can easily unscrew it.
- If the base sticks to the cartridge, then you need parse the cartridge. But this method is suitable if the cartridge of the Soviet type, that is, is made of the corresponding alloy, it can be disassembled. The cartridge is dismantled into three parts. You can use the thin holes to unscrew the base from the cartridge. This method is used if all of the above methods did not fit, and you could not extract the cartridge. But it happens that the cartridge deteriorates and the basement tightly sticks to it. In this case, the only solution to the problem is the replacement of the cartridge. Recall that the method, with disassembling the cartridge, is not suitable if it is ceramic cartridges. They are indescribable and are most often implemented with modern lamps, lamps.
Stuck a base in a cartridge
Do not be upset, panic if the light burst and the base remained in the cartridge. There are safe and simple ways to extract a basement from the cartridge, and without the use of special tools and pliers.