catastrophic bulb failure

[sudsmaster]

Occasionally studio lights explode during live TV news or entertainment shows. It's loud.

I had a 100 watt incandescent blow a couple of months ago at work. It was a crappy work light mounted on a wet grinder. I made an error and caused a surge of coolant, and it sprayed on the exposed hot light bulb. It made quite a boom when it went - from implosion, as already mentioned.

Toggles's photos of old ceiling gas fixtures makes me wonder if they are the reason why many modern overhead light fixtures still have threaded mounting posts for the fixture glass. Perhaps an easy way to recycle the existing threaded gas pipe "nipple"?

 

[toggleswitch]

Good point.

This is probably why many newer fixtures come with a nipple and the strap that holds it. These both fit into the octagonal or round ceiling junction box.

Both pieces of hardware are sometimes supplied.