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January 24, 2006

EaseOut™ Broken Bulb Remover

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A shocking development.

Just kidding, ha ha.

Nobody's laughing.

Hey — turn on the laugh track.

Bunch of incompetents around here, I tell you: good help is hard to find.

But I digress.

From the website:

    EaseOut™ bulb remover safely extracts broken bulbs from light sockets.

    These plastic pliers don't conduct electricity and their long, sure-grip handle has a built-in safety shield to protect your eyes and hands from glass shards.

    What a bright idea!

    PVC; 8½ x 5½".

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Why am I not excited by what appears in the picture above to be a metal spring between the handles?

Doh!

$7.98 here.

Doctor's advice: wear gloves anyhow, just for the heck of it, should you buy and use this device.

You know me, old belt + suspenders; I'm the little old lady from anesthesia.

I wonder if you could put your own CD or DVD up there in place of the included "safety shield."

Hey, wait a minute — maybe that's an old Alice Cooper or Beastie Boys album....

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w00t!

This product wins bookofjoe's understatement of the year–to–date award for the wonderful headline on the product's web page:

"Safer than metal pliers"

Yessssss!

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That safety shield's useless - it's flat so any bits are free to slide off onto your upturned face. Should be bowl-like. Though I'm with the pliers users. Of course, us Brits have proper light bulbs with bayonets which never jam tight. Also means only the pins at the base of the socket are live, not the walls as well.

Posted by: Skipweasel | Jan 25, 2006 10:11:53 AM

OR just put on your work gloves, stick your finger in the socket and work the puppy out. All the fuse/circuit breaker hoo-hah is unnecessary. Turning off the light switch is enough. Electrons aren't aren't going to jump through the switch and zap you any more than they're going to jump the circuit breaker.(I mean, golly, just to be extra safe, have the power company come out and disconnect the line to your house.) Even so, with non-conductive gloves, you could remove the lightbulb stub with all the power on.

Posted by: Al Christensen | Jan 24, 2006 4:29:52 PM

A carrot's better - more socket shaped.

Posted by: Russ | Jan 24, 2006 3:10:04 PM

And don't forget Joe's own Helpful Hint from July. (And it doesn't cost $7.98):

Here we go:

1) Get a potato. No, this is not a joke — just get one.

2) Turn off the power to the socket or light.

3) Remove the fuse or turn the breaker off.

Note: If you don't know how to do step 3 do not continue — repeat, do not continue. Instead, find someone who can execute step 3 for you.

4) Push the narrow end of the the potato into the screw cap/remains of the light bulb.

5) Twist and the broken base should emerge, buried in the potato.

Ms. Buckingham recommends gloves and safety glasses: I concur.

http://www.bookofjoe.com/2005/07/helpful_hints_f.html

Posted by: Shawn Lea | Jan 24, 2006 3:00:59 PM

Man, another over-thought solution to a simple problem. Or a case of someone pandering to the general fear/ignorance of electricity.

Posted by: Al Christensen | Jan 24, 2006 12:24:00 PM

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