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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 8 May 2010 06:26 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> typed >We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >drugs began to take hold. I remember Wicked Uncle Nigel ><wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> saying something like: > >>#They come in little plastic packs >>#In groups of five or ten >>#I 'aven't seen 'em singly >>#Since I can't remember when >>#Inside the little plastic packs >>#They're easier to sell >>#They cost you twice the original price >>#And they don't work half as well > >Richard Stilgo? The same. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: wessie on 8 May 2010 20:46 "Lozzo" <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote in news:84gmnkFd8cU1(a)mid.individual.net: > The Older Gentleman wrote: > >> There's a really good such emporium in Tunbridge Wells. Sells motor >> bulbs loose, in that the staff open a big drawer, and select one bulb >> from a big box of them, instead of you selecting from a rack of those >> horrible blister packs. > > Ummm, that's how we sell bulbs, and our shop has only existed for 13 > months. > > I hope the halogen headlight bulbs are sealed in something otherwise they are likely to get contaminated which will cause early failure. -- wessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS
From: Mark Olson on 8 May 2010 20:54 wessie wrote: > "Lozzo" <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote in news:84gmnkFd8cU1(a)mid.individual.net: > >> The Older Gentleman wrote: >> >>> There's a really good such emporium in Tunbridge Wells. Sells motor >>> bulbs loose, in that the staff open a big drawer, and select one bulb >>> from a big box of them, instead of you selecting from a rack of those >>> horrible blister packs. >> Ummm, that's how we sell bulbs, and our shop has only existed for 13 >> months. > I hope the halogen headlight bulbs are sealed in something otherwise they > are likely to get contaminated which will cause early failure. I doubt they would have halogen headlamp bulbs lying loose in a drawer, but even if so, I'm pretty sure the quartz envelope doesn't actually absorb contaminants. If you simply wipe them off with a clean rag soaked in alcohol they're as good as new.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 8 May 2010 22:47 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Mark Olson <olsonm(a)tiny.invalid> saying something like: >> I hope the halogen headlight bulbs are sealed in something otherwise they >> are likely to get contaminated which will cause early failure. > >I doubt they would have halogen headlamp bulbs lying loose in a drawer, >but even if so, I'm pretty sure the quartz envelope doesn't actually >absorb contaminants. If you simply wipe them off with a clean rag soaked >in alcohol they're as good as new. > Exactly. The contaminants causing de-vitrification need heat to instigate the process.
From: Pip Luscher on 9 May 2010 02:02
On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:53:11 +0100, "malc" <malwhite1(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >Lozzo wrote: >> malc wrote: >>> >>> One of those shops that has always been there, even though you never >>> saw it before? >> >> No, it was a brand new Kawasaki dealership as from Easter weekend last >> year. > >It was a weak Pratchett reference. Not worth bothering with really. Heh. I got it. -- -Pip |