What caused this?

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I was working in a kitchen taking quarry tiles of a floor. I had the light on all day. I sensed a burning smell and thought it was one of my power tools. However, as the light seemed to have dimmed I looked up and saw this!
The bulb still worked (the light was dimmer due to the mass melted over it). All parts of the holder/wiring were all in tact. It did not trip. A new (clean) bulb is working too.
Any ideas what caused this??
:confused:
 
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Looks like someones been making a meringue & it's flown up off the mixer & landed on the lamp.
 
I was just about to say, the recipe for baked Alaska has ice cream in the middle....
 
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Bulb wattage (and thus heat) too large for the shade / fitting?
 
That's crazy, that plastic is supposed to be a thermo-set rather than a thermo-plastic! (that is to say, a plastic that won't melt/bend but goes straight into burning).

Nozzle
 
That's crazy, that plastic is supposed to be a thermo-set rather than a thermo-plastic! (that is to say, a plastic that won't melt/bend but goes straight into burning).

Nozzle

Perhaps you've hit the nail on the head with "supposed to be". Could we be seeing the results of using a fake (as in non-BS) lampholder?
 
I was an apprentice telephone engineer when I left school.

At one stage I spent a while at a large group switching centre in Esher, Surrey.

On the first floor was a big manual switchboard with probably 40 or so all female operators. The best job was changing the jacks and jack cords when the wore out. Each cord had a counterbalance weight under the switchboard. To get to this one had to crawl around among a sea of loverly ankles…

Oh, Matron!

;)
 
Never mind the ankles. What were the higher-up bits like? ;)

I know, trust me to lower the tone.

A telephone engineers' joke there....
 

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