20 Jun 08 09:10, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


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

 RN> In The Soldier (1985), with Ken Wahl, this enemy agent is dressed up
 RN> like a cleaning woman and replaces the light bulb in the CIA
 RN> director's desk lamp. Before that took place, the agent took an
 RN> ordinary household bulb and placed it on a stand made to hold the
 RN> large end of the bulb atop a desk. He then took a small torch to the
 RN> metal base, unsealing it from the glass part.  With a small pair of
 RN> channel locks, he carefully removed the metal bse holding the
 RN> filament from the bulb.  Then he poured what looked like gasoline
 RN> into the bulb and added the detergent to it.  The last step was using
 RN> a hot glue gun and carefully applying it to the rim of the glass bulb
 RN> at the neck.  He then carefully placed the filament and base in place
 RN> and made sure the glue held everything.  After it set, he picked up
 RN> the bulb and swished it around a little and you could see the liquid
 RN> suds.

I'm thinking that the person doing the bulb trick was an asassin or mob
hit man. Might have been Charles Bronson...

 RN> For those of you who haven't seen it, I heartily recommend this
 RN> movie.

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