Bulb changer on a pole

Stormin Mormon wrote the following:

What was your question?

On 4/5/2010 4:11 PM Stormin Mormon spake thus:

Didn't look at your link, but the long-distance bulb-changers I've seen usually come with a couple different ends to work both w/standard bulbs and floodlamps. And yes, they do work.

What was your question again?

Oops!!!!!!

I've done some internet research. Looks like there are small bulb changers (with what looks like spider legs, and a spring for purse string). Then, there are large bulb changers, and maybe bigger yet are the reflector bulb changers.

Naturally, as I'm asking, you might guess that I've got a couple of high bulbs to change. Yes, that is the case.

So, anyway. It gets me to wondering.

It's been a long, brain damaged day for me. As you noticed. Anyhow, the questions I was thinking, you already answered.

Is there a Mormon electrician in your congregation?

A Baptist at a local electrical supply can answer your questions ;)

I dumpster dove a twist loc telescoping pole with a ~2" suction cup.

Works fine on all sizes of "smooth faced" bulbs. I do canned lights on a 14' ceiling.

cheers Bob

I got mine at Ace Hardware for appx. $4. It is a suction cup as well. It also has a long string attached to it so that once the replaced light bulb is up, you can give a small tug on the string and all is well.

It did not come with a pole, but I just used an extension pole that is used to hang outside Christmas decorations.

I also use mine to replace canned lights on a high ceiling. It works great.

Good luck.

Kate

That's a good thought. When it comes to secular matters, sometimes other church people have the answer. Is it safe to be a Baptist electrician? I've heard it's not good to work on electric while you're around water.

From what I saw on the net. There are three bulb changer tips, well, maybe more than that. One was a suction cup, and the other two looked like spiders with a big spring, like a purse string or drawstring for a bag.

Do you have to wet the suction cup to get it to stick?

Now, that sounds totally practial. Thanks.

LOL ;o)

They work very well, although there is a knack. Even when the thingy is a good deal larger than the bulb, you "aim" the bulb at the socket and then push up so the friction on the top of the bulb does the work; i.e., the cup doesn't really grip the bulb closely.

After my hubby ended service as the condo building manager, it again took three condo board members to change a light bulb...one old guy standing on a second floor balcony railing, another holding him while he leaned out over the edge to reach the bulb, and a third doing the brain work. I'm not kidding. Wish I had the video :o)

Well, you know it's not safe for a Lutheran Bishop to play golf during a thunder storm. Ask Bill Murray. *snicker*

TDD

Maybe I can find a Catholic electrical supply counter man. I hear they only sprinkle.

Or a Pentacostal with hands in the air?

I should hire a Jewish electrician to help wire my electrical sockets. They just cut a little insulation off the tip. But then, the socket won't work from Friday Sundown, to Saturday sundown. Oy. I think I better think it out again.

Then, there was the Pentacostal guy who used a bunch of perforated irrigation pipe for the assembly line construction. The entire factory was full of holey rollers.

Almost as bad as the Methodist fellow who worked at the glue factory. He was making more united Methodists.

And there was the Jehovas Witness who couldn't get his car properly fixed. It was always knocking.

I need to mention that I just wrote all of these. I didn't copy them off a web site. Though, they will probably be all over the web in a day or two.

This is something we have been working on in the past to develop. But it is on the back burner for now. Ours uses vacuum to attach to the bulb.

What is good for cleaning saliva off LED screens?

So here is a question for you on the light bulb issue...

How many of these light fixtures that are up really high do you have ???

I am assuming that they are in the main assembly/ worship space... Is the seating/pews/benches in that area movable or fixed in place ???

Spot re-lamping is going to drive you crazy, you may as well just figure on once a year changing all the lamps in that space (or waiting until several lamps are out) and renting a portable scaffold/staging with enough pieces to come within arms reach of the lights when you assemble it and change out all of the lamps at that time...

Doing this will allow you to get up close and personal with the ceiling and clean cobwebs out of the light fixture and any HVAC vents on the ceiling... Every few years you do this you could repaint the ceiling if it is sheetrock/plaster/painted wood OR refresh the suspended ceiling tiles if this is a drop ceiling...

You will find that if you plan and coordinate annual or multi-annual maintenance tasks you will see that if you rented a scaffolding/staging setup for a week or two once a year you will have more "little projects" that you could do with it that would have been so much more difficult and less safe to complete without it...

Every place I have ever worked maintenance at has always had a scissor platform lift which could get us to within arms reach of 90% of the ceilings inside the building... Such lifts are worth their weight in gold inside and outside on flat level paved areas where you need to reach up to do work within the limits of the lift...

~~ Evan