What's with all the old threads coming back to life? Must be some really bored railroaders out there.
I can't change half of mine. I broke my ladder.
pcarrell wrote: SteamFreak wrote: it seems to me that the original poster was woefully non-specific. Is the bulb in question bayonet or screw base? Fluorescent or incandescent? Floor lamp or recessed ceiling fixture? For that matter, is it household or automotive? I refuse to take a side until these issues are clarified. You have a point there......and it's not on the top of your head!Ummm, we need a clarification here..........
SteamFreak wrote: it seems to me that the original poster was woefully non-specific. Is the bulb in question bayonet or screw base? Fluorescent or incandescent? Floor lamp or recessed ceiling fixture? For that matter, is it household or automotive? I refuse to take a side until these issues are clarified.
I refuse to take a side until these issues are clarified.
You have a point there......and it's not on the top of your head!
Ummm, we need a clarification here..........
Geeze wazza mutel high dill dilly dot!!!
Didn't anybody learn anything????
It never WAS a "light bulb"...
It's a LIGHT EMITTING DIODE !!!
An LED!!!!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Ahh...This thread brings up a lot of memories...
And I'm still trying to do the math to come up with an answer to the question...
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
How many watts is this lightbulb? Is it going in the train room? How long is it expected to last? Is it flourescent? Which company is it made by? How can this lightbulb be improved? Does it shed enough light to light the whole room?
Seriously, very funny thread. Also very true.
pcarrell wrote:You have a point there......and it's not on the top of your head!
Nope... that's the little bulb that goes on whenever I get an idea. It's a whole 7 watts.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Hey, truth is funnier than fiction. Y'know those new low-energy bulbs that everyone from the new-low-energy-bulb manufacturers to Al Gore are trying to make us change over to? Well, they are made with mercury. So, in many places, you can't just bring them to the dump because they are full of hazardous, evil stuff. So you have to recycle them. Anyone know of any programs, anywhere in the country, to recycle mercury-filled light bulbs? I didn't think so.
Next thing you know, the government will be telling us we have to warehouse these things until recycling programs are in place. So, guard your train rooms carefully. Pretty soon the eco-cops will be eyeing them as "temporary" storage sites for bulbs.
Al Gore was born 9 months after Roswell, you know.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Lots of interesting thoughts in this thread.
How many does it take to screw in a light bulb? ................ oh, I don't know....... let's see........ was that clockwise......or counter clockwise ......... ... (might have been a digital clock, and we'll never know)..........
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Enough.......thats how many!
MisterBeasley wrote:Has anyone ordered light bulbs from Internet Train Light Bulbs dot com? I ordered some 17 years ago and I still haven't received them. They don't answer my e-mails and their phone is always busy. Should I be concerned?
Is this maybe a case of the lights are on but nobody's home?
Still laugh every time I read this!
Ah, but this thread is outdated...
Everyone knows LED's are far superior to lamps!
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
pcarrell wrote: Still laugh every time I read this!
Definitely made my day!
Thanks.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
If you open the door to a darkened room, you'll let the dark out.
Remember...Light bulb changing is Fun.
All of this talk of changing the light bulb, but would it be a change for the better?
SHAME
on all of you.
Twelve pages on changing a light bulb and ONLY ONE poster even came close to the truth!!!
THE LIGHT BULB DIDN'T NEED TO BE CHANGED!!! (it was loved as it was)
However, it did need a proper sized limiting resistor, which is the real topic that should be discussed.....if we have enough people.
Tilden
Oh yes they do, All the light bulbs need to be changed. They need to be changed to CFLs.
AL GORE
Tilden wrote:SHAME on all of you. Twelve pages on changing a light bulb and ONLY ONE poster even came close to the truth!!!THE LIGHT BULBE DIDN'T NEED TO BE CHANGED!!! (it was loved as it was)
THE LIGHT BULBE DIDN'T NEED TO BE CHANGED!!! (it was loved as it was)
Haven't you heard about the light bulb that changed for somebody else, only to be asked "Why aren't you the same bulb I fell in love with?"
Interiors and people figures make such a difference. Especially the people.
Hi!
Yikes, what you wrote is so true - and very funny - yet very scary!
ENJOY,
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
I fail to see the humor in this thread.
Maybe if I turned on this light bulb.
Ooops it burned out....
HALP!!!
I was changing the light bulb on my locomotive last night and, when I encountered some difficulties, I turned to my stack of MR magazines. Would you know it. Not one article on N-scale light bulbs. Just HO light bulbs. Doesn't MR realize that an increasing number of people are using N-scale light bulbs. This lack of information can greatly increase the number of people required in the process of changing light bulbs in scales other than HO.
That's it, I'm cancelling my subscription.
Neil
Everyone south of Ohio knows it's not a light bulb, but a light "bub".
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
Medina1128 Everyone south of Ohio knows it's not a light bulb, but a light "bub".
You brought back a nearly three year old thread to make that lame comment? You need a hobby, "bub".
plane_crazy How many subscribers to this message board does it take to change a light bulb?
How many subscribers to this message board does it take to change a light bulb?
As I recall, it depends upon the nationality of those involved in the light bulb changing task.
Alton Junction
I just gotta do it. I can't help myself..
"The incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe makes light by heating a metal filament wire to a high temperature until it glows. The hot filament is protected from air by a glass bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated. In a halogen lamp, a chemical process that returns metal to the filament prevents its evaporation. The light bulb is supplied with electrical current by feed-through terminals or wires embedded in the glass. Most lamps are used in a socket."
Jarrell