19 Jun 08 06:53, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> RN> I saw it done in the 1985 movie The Soldier, with Ken Wahl.  Of
 RW>> RN> course, it's probably just another Hollywood stunt, but was very
 RW>> RN> effective.

 RW>> I saw that one too. I thought he put alcohol in the lightbulb, so
 RW>> nobody would notice from the color of the liquid. Of course it could
 RW>> have been white gas.

 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.

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

                R\%/itt



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