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How many fools to change a lightbulb

  • 05-10-2019 9:51pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭


    Second spotlight in the bathroom is after blowing and I need to change it. It’s not like the ones in the rest of the house with the silver spring thing that pops out. I’ve tried every which way to get the bulb to pop out but to no avail. I think it might be a sealed unit but I don’t know how to take the surround down without leaving a big hole in my ceiling.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭adam88


    Picture of light fitting.


  • Administrators Posts: 53,126 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Does the bit in the middle screw out?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    The circular bit in the middle is removable. If you have a suction cup or a thin blade.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭adam88


    The circular bit in the middle is removable. If you have a suction cup or a thin blade.

    I tried a knife to remove it. Might try a stanly blade tomorrow.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Do you have a suction cup ?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭adam88


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    Do you have a suction cup ?

    No. I’ll pop down to a hardware shop tomorrow and get one. At least I’ll hsve it in the house for when the other ones blow


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,969 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    It screws out. Use the tips of you fingers and thumb to turn it anticlockwise. It will give, shouldn't need a suction cup!

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭adam88


    Esel wrote: »
    It screws out. Use the tips of you fingers and thumb to turn it anticlockwise. It will give, shouldn't need a suction cup!

    There’s absolutely no give in it. If anything is beginning to make the square plate outside of it loose


  • Registered Users Posts: 632 ✭✭✭cheif kaiser


    adam88 wrote: »
    There’s absolutely no give in it. If anything is beginning to make the square plate outside of it loose

    Agree with the above post, it a screw out fitting. Take you thumb and forefinger and press up on the bulb whilst twisting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭joeysoap


    Never heard of a suction cup removing a bulb. Novel idea though.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 21,969 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Try it while wearing a rubber glove.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭adam88


    This is a real test of my masculinity lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    joeysoap wrote: »
    Never heard of a suction cup removing a bulb. Novel idea though.

    Some of these type of light fittings need a suction cup applied to the outer glass to remove it there by exposing the bulb behind the glass.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 10,952 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    Lads is that not either a GU10 or MR16 lamp.

    Where that metal ring is holding in the lamp.

    Unscrew the metal ring and the lamp can be removed, it may even drop down.

    I don't think it's a lamp that is screwed in.

    Might be wrong though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,969 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    I thought it looked like an R80.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,856 ✭✭✭dodzy


    Impossible to say R80 or not from that pic. OP, turn off light and post another pic:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭adam88


    So got there in the end. It was a mr 16 that was in a sealed unit. Had to bring the whole unit/casing and get at the bulb from behind.

    Just something I noticed when I got it out there seemed to be some insulation foam fell out, normal enough, it’s in the attic after all but it was black as opposed to the normal yellow/creamy colour of it usually ,,,,,, anything to be worried about


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    adam88 wrote: »
    So got there in the end. It was a mr 16 that was in a sealed unit. Had to bring the whole unit/casing and get at the bulb from behind.

    Just something I noticed when I got it out there seemed to be some insulation foam fell out, normal enough, it’s in the attic after all but it was black as opposed to the normal yellow/creamy colour of it usually ,,,,,, anything to be worried about

    Heat from the bulb remove the insulation from around the fitting. I'd also change the bulb to its LED equal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭adam88


    Yip, changed from 50 w to 3.5w.


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