24 Jun 08 01:13, Mark Lewis wrote to Roy Witt:

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

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

Next time, try a pencil torch and blow a hole in the glass. Reseal it with
silicon or expoxy. My mother used to work for Micro Switch and worked in
the Glass-tube filled with Mercury, switch department.

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

That's an interesting note.

                R\%/itt



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