This weekend I tried to remove a dead lightbulb from my ceiling fan and it was so brittle, it shattered in my hand. Now the base of the light bulb is basically stuck in the socket and I don’t know how to get it out. I thought about using pliers, but what part of the bulb am I supposed to grab onto? The filament (?) is glass and too delicate.
Sheetal Werneke
I read once in a Heloise column to shove half of a raw potato onto the broken end and then twist that to get the bulb out.
edward17
Can you grip the edge of the bulb right where the glass was? They also sell a tool to remove broken bulbs, here’s alink to the one they sell at amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/Unger-92133-Broken-Light-Changer/dp/B001735UB8.
I’m sure they’d have it at Home Depot or Lowes.