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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: castle key on October 08, 2013, 09:10:15 PM
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After almost a half century on this mortal coil I face an issue that I have never dealt with.
The light bulb in the refrigerator is out.
Now I must face replacing it or living with no light.
This begs many questions about life. I really do not know if the light goes out when the door is closed, but I know it is not on when I open the door.
Really, almost fifty years, and this is the first time in my life that this issue has come up? I guess that isn't too bad.
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Can you still get flashlights with magnets on them? If so stick one to the door of the fridge and use as needed.
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You don't need to eat after dark anyway :P
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Are you sure the door is open?
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Set it on fire. Should light it up fairly well.
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Set it on fire. Should light it up fairly well.
Magnesium flare ought to do the trick
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A few LEDs inside are low enough wattage to be left on all the time. Put a plexiglass window in the front (dual pane, of course, for insulation).
Voila! No need to open the fridge to see what's in there, spilling out the cool air.
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White people's problems...
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Could be a faulty door sensor switch. >:D [popcorn]
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Are you sure you are not going blind or have cataracts? :P
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Are you sure the door is open?
The question is electrical, not philosophical...
Brad
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You could always buy a pair of night vision goggles to see what's in the fridge. =D
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You could always buy a pair of night vision goggles to see what's in the fridge. =D
I think he should try a FLIR instead, and report back if the inside of the fridge is just washed out, or can the FLIR pick up on subtle temp differences inside a fridge.
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If you get just totaly crazy you could try something like this
http://www.lowes.com/pd_76517-3-10070_0__?productId=1260233&Ntt=appliance+bulb&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNtt%3Dappliance%2Bbulb&facetInfo= (http://www.lowes.com/pd_76517-3-10070_0__?productId=1260233&Ntt=appliance+bulb&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNtt%3Dappliance%2Bbulb&facetInfo=)
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I think the real question is, is he in the right room?
stay safe.
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I think the real question is, is he in the right room?
stay safe.
And why isn't his wife getting him a beer or making him a sandwich? =D
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Well, I tried the FLIR and night vision and they did not work. I decided to get back to basics and simply change the bulbs.
What a nightmare!
Difficult to work around the plastic bulb guard... Impossible to remove these crappy pieces of plastic. The bulbs were stuck quite a bit in the socket. Figured I would likely break a bulb and cut a digit with the broken glass (that is something I seem to do often).
My assessment is that these refrigerators are designed like this to keep repairmen in business.
I had repeated thoughts of "How many (fill in the blanks) are needed to change a light bulb. One of the dogs kept licking my ear as I struggled.
Eventually the darn thing came loose and I got them out and put new ones in.
My friend from work told me that he had an old refrigerator that needed a new bulb, realized the machine was old and clapped out, and just got a new refrigerator!! That guy has huge amounts of money and buys stuff impulsively.
The task is done.. It took about an hour and half and I actually broke a sweat working in front of an open refrigerator.
I need staff for these types of things, but really, most of my home repair/improvement projects never go well!
Several years ago, I was dealing with a dripping faucet in a bathroom. That fix ended with me completely gutting the place, moving walls, installing new everything, pulling power, pipes, building crazy ceilings.
My life seems to be summed up with changing a light bulb.
Very sad.....
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This is all so much failure.
Just have your woman deal with the fridge and it's existential dilemmas.
If men were supposed to be making them, they'd be called "sandwizards"...
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Are you sure you are not going blind or have cataracts
I'll take "Indications of fatal brain tumors for $500, Alex."
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Just have your woman deal with the fridge and it's existential dilemmas.
I do not have suicidal ideation..
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You could have just kept a pile of floppy disks next the fridge and burn one every time you open the door to provide the necessary lighting.
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Live dangerously and just leave the burnt out bulb in there.
I said I was going to get a new bulb when our new fridge bulb burned out.
That was four or five years ago. :P
Makes getting a snack in the middle of the night a bit dicey without turning on the kitchen light, but I revel in the element of suprise.
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You people are all freaks.
There.
I said it. :P
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You people are all freaks.
There.
I said it. :P
Agreed.
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You people are all freaks.
There.
I said it. :P
Please tell me this didn't come as a revelation to you...
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You people are all freaks.
There.
I said it. :P
Have you not been paying attention all these years?
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The light that failed. :lol:
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Please tell me this didn't come as a revelation to you...
No but sometimes it's harder to embrace than others.
I still love you all.
The light that failed. :lol:
Finally, a Kipling reference. This is a man I can do business with.
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Robert and I just read "Drums of the Fore and Aft" the other night. It once again brought me to tears.
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Are you sure the door is open?
Schrodinger's fridge?
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Schrodinger's fridge?
There's the problem: you have a cat in your fridge :facepalm:
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There's the problem: you have a cat in your fridge :facepalm:
Had a cat in the fridge once. True story.
Dad opened the fridge door and Pharoh pops out with a "MOROAW!"
We still havn't figured out how he got in there without someone noticing in the first place. Or why he went in the fridge.
Which is not as bad as my aunt, appliances and her cat. She turned the dryer on while the cat was using it for a nice naptime.
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Dad opened the fridge door and Pharoh pops out with a "MOROAW!"
I bet that he was a real cool cat :lol:
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You could have just kept a pile of floppy disks next the fridge and burn one every time you open the door to provide the necessary lighting.
I'm pickin' up what yer throwin' down! Do the initials M.I. mean anything to you?
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I bet that he was a real cool cat :lol:
His name would then be Halloween Jack and he lives on top of Manhattan Chase,
the elevator's broke so he slides down a rope!
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Had a cat in the fridge once. True story.
Dad opened the fridge door and Pharoh pops out with a "MOROAW!"
We still havn't figured out how he got in there without someone noticing in the first place. Or why he went in the fridge.
Which is not as bad as my aunt, appliances and her cat. She turned the dryer on while the cat was using it for a nice naptime.
Wifes mother did that.
It, uh...didn't end well.
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Wifes mother did that.
It, uh...didn't end well.
I bet it was a nice cat, too.
The nice one always die young. The insane, power hungry pure evil ones live forever.
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I bet it was a nice cat, too.
The nice one always die young. The insane, power hungry pure evil ones live forever.
That's because a power hungry pure evil one would have broken out of the dryer and killed her in her sle....
....can I borrow your pure evil one? Only need it for a day or two.
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That's because a power hungry pure evil one would have broken out of the dryer and killed her in her sle....
....can I borrow your pure evil one? Only need it for a day or two.
Only a day or two? Naw, you want him, you keep him!
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This reminds me of an old joke.....
....How many APS members does it take to change a light bulb?....
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Only a day or two? Naw, you want him, you keep him!
you'd miss the lil guy and you know it
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This reminds me of an old joke.....
....How many APS members does it take to change a light bulb?....
Six. One to hold the lightbulb, two to rotate the ladder, and three to start unrelated topics.
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you'd miss the lil guy and you know it
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How many APS members does it take to change a light bulb?....
Which is better, a 45 watt bulb or a 90 lumen bulb?
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Which is better, a 45 watt bulb or a 90 lumen bulb?
Incandescent, CFL, or LED?
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Incandescent, CFL, or LED?
What color temperature?
Brad
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It's not so much the brightness of the light as it is the placement.
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It's not so much the brightness of the light as it is the placement.
Directional or non-directional lamps?
Brad
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What's the intended use?
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What's the intended use?
Screwing around inside the fridge...? =|
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I bet it was a nice cat, too.
The nice one always die young. The insane, power hungry pure evil ones live forever.
I'm betting you're just suffering from selection bias.
I mean, can you really make a judgement about how long the nice .01% of cats live?
(It's like with lawyers, how 98% give the other 2% a bad name...)
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(It's like with lawyers, how 98% give the other 2% a bad name...)
I think we have "the other 2%" right here on APS!
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Screwing around inside the fridge...? =|
:O
We're gonna need a bigger fridge.
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I bet it was a nice cat, too.
The nice one always die young. The insane, power hungry pure evil ones live forever.
I'm soooooo screwed. The sumbitch'll probably out live me.
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I'm soooooo screwed. The sumbitch'll probably out live me.
I'm thinking about starting a support group.
Oppressed cat owners annonomous.
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I'm thinking about starting a support group.
Oppressed cat owners servants annonomous.
ftfy
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:O
We're gonna need a bigger fridge.
I've got a chest freezer that would be plenty big enough if it was empty.
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:O
We're gonna need a bigger fridge.
It's not size, but technique, that matters.....
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ftfy
I'm reminded that dogs have masters. Cats have staff.
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It's not size, but technique, that matters.....
You keep telling yourself that.
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You keep telling yourself that.
I could text you a picture of my tongue =D
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I LOL'd at that one. People are looking at me like I'm weird or something.
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There's an old story about a couple guys stopping to pick up a piece of abandoned luggage by the roadside.
About a half mile later, the car stops again and two men jump out - followed by a bobcat.
=D
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The light goes out when the fridge door is closed.
I have this on good authority, going back some decades now.
Single mom, with 2 year old boy throwing a "hissy fit" and mom, tosses boy into fridge to "cool him down".
First off, this will "cool a boy down". Second the boy informs mom the light does go off when the door is closed.
Probably not the best parenting skills, still this was before life got too PC.
He turned out all right...
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" One of the dogs kept licking my ear as I struggled."
Gee... I wonder which dog that was...
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Welcome to our newest spammer.
stay safe.
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The light goes out when the fridge door is closed.
I have this on good authority, going back some decades now.
Single mom, with 2 year old boy throwing a "hissy fit" and mom, tosses boy into fridge to "cool him down".
First off, this will "cool a boy down". Second the boy informs mom the light does go off when the door is closed.
Probably not the best parenting skills, still this was before life got too PC.
He turned out all right...
Who has enough fridge space to fit a 2 y/o? Ours are packed to hte gills.
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Who has enough fridge space to fit a 2 y/o? Ours are packed to hte gills.
I could fit one... maybe not in one piece though. >:D