Have you ever had such a thing happen?
Today was the 3rd time. I use two Osram 100W "Rough Service" incandescent bulbs - one above my lathe and the other for the mill.
I have taken great care to mount the lamps in such a way that there is minimal vibration from the machines. They are of good quality and when I use the mill, I can swing the lathe's lamp over to the mill so my vice area on the mill is well lit from two directions.
My head is usually only a few cm away from the lamps but in all three instances when the bulbs exploded, I was fortunately facing my workbench but flying glass from the exploding lightbulb still caused a single light cut on my arm.
I picked up glass all over the place and saw the Osram bulb in question was made in Slovakia.
Looking in my cupboard where I keep spare lightbulbs, I saw I still had two of the same Osram Slovakia bulbs left. Rough service bulbs are sold by Plumstead Electrical but they will probably at best just replace them without doing anything else like taking up the problem with the Osram importer.
The dilemma is I cannot really use other types of lighting and the risk of being bombed by flying glass is something I'm not looking forward to.
Any other ideas? I've tried energy saving bulbs but their light output is just not good enough.
mafioso
Today was the 3rd time. I use two Osram 100W "Rough Service" incandescent bulbs - one above my lathe and the other for the mill.
I have taken great care to mount the lamps in such a way that there is minimal vibration from the machines. They are of good quality and when I use the mill, I can swing the lathe's lamp over to the mill so my vice area on the mill is well lit from two directions.
My head is usually only a few cm away from the lamps but in all three instances when the bulbs exploded, I was fortunately facing my workbench but flying glass from the exploding lightbulb still caused a single light cut on my arm.
I picked up glass all over the place and saw the Osram bulb in question was made in Slovakia.
Looking in my cupboard where I keep spare lightbulbs, I saw I still had two of the same Osram Slovakia bulbs left. Rough service bulbs are sold by Plumstead Electrical but they will probably at best just replace them without doing anything else like taking up the problem with the Osram importer.
The dilemma is I cannot really use other types of lighting and the risk of being bombed by flying glass is something I'm not looking forward to.
Any other ideas? I've tried energy saving bulbs but their light output is just not good enough.
mafioso
