hand-tool for screwing/unscrewing 30watt interior-flood into ceiling recessed socket?

[tom]

I use a valve-lapping tool (small suction cup at both ends of a stick) to remove/install my recessed light bulbs. Tom

[Roger Taylor]

Google for: bulb changing pole - this is the name of the tool you need. It will point you to several retail sites, including one that shows what you want, at shoplet.com

[David Combs]

Refurbished kitchen now has fancy recessed floodlights pointing straight down, like from inside a barrel.

Fine for a 90-watt flood and big "barrel", big enough *and* shallow enough to be able to grab the bulb.

But for wee 30-watt (Phillips DuraMax) "interior flood", sitting much deeper inside *it's* "barrel", not so easy, not at all. At least for for 6'2" adult with equivalent hands. (For child, maybe different).

Anyhow, is there some toilet-plunger-type-thing that you can moisten and then push onto flatish face of bulb, sticking onto it like a kiddie's arrow with rubber suction-cup as arrow-tip would, that gives you a grip on the thing, so you can screw/unscrew it from the socket?

(And help keep the bulb *straight* as you try to stick it deep up into the barrel, rather than what happened to me when I tried and got it at slight angle and tried screwing it in *that way* for about a fifth of a turn until I realized the threads were crossed, and then finding it *difficult* to *un*screw (so tight I was afraid that I'd break the bulb!)).

Any product to buy? (Yes, I know about the grippers for

*regular-sized* light bulbs, but this wee indoor-flood is like half the diameter of that kind, *and* it fits pretty closely into its barrel, so not much room for mechanical-grip to grab bulb from the "outside".)

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Separate problem: too much friction in threads, doesn't turn so easily (presumably also when done "straight on", ie properly).

What, spray or rub somethong onto the threads of the *bulb*?

What? Oil bad conductor? Silicone? Graphite?

(Or maybe somehow spray onto threads of the *socket*?)

Thanks!

David

[Lee & Cathi Thomas]

They carry them at Home Depot with a suction cup attachment. I have the same problem. I need to dampen the suction cup to get it to stick.

[David Combs]

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Thanks for the fine suggestions!

Will hit HD probably Friday.

Thanks!

David