Hi Roy,
In a message to Roger Nelson you wrote:

 RN>> Whatever he added to that combustible liquid did suds up, which made
 RN>> me think it was a detergent. And the way the lamp fixture was made,
 RN>> the hood obscured the bulb.

 RW> We must be thinking of different movies. I remember the bulb being
 RW> exposed and I don't recall any suds being put in the bulb. The movie
 RW> I'm thinking of, the alcohol was injected with a syringe through the
 RW> base and then resealed.

interesting... i've always had to use a glass cutter to get into the base
of a lightbulb when i loaded them with kitchen-magician napalm (gasoline
and vaseline)... unsolder the wires and straighten them, then work the base
off of the glue holding it down... then, using a special mount (ie: jar
cutter), we'd cut the base off the bulb, load it, and carefully put it back
together while trying to keep the element from breaking... some glue,
generally epoxy,  rubber cement or even superglue held the base on...

we had a few spectacular fizzles, the few times we attempted it, but still
a fizzle... the *really* good ones could pretty much destroy a small
shed... oops :?

Bye bye!
  mark

 * SeM. 2.26  * Our Lady of Blessed acceleration don't fail me now....