Water damage

plugwash · 16 Oct 2006

Taylortwocities said:
Very strange - the light bulb was half full with water - inside the bulb!! To this day I cannot work out how it got in there.

assuming the bulb was on when the flood hit i'd guess that the temperature shock slightly cracked the glass allowing the water to leak in.

Softus · 17 Oct 2006

Taylortwocities said:
To this day I cannot work out how it got in there.

Localised cooling of glass at its joint with the cap? For example caused by a trickle of water down it? If the joint opened up behind the trickle then some water would be "inhaled" by the bulb (which is at less than atmospheric pressure).

RF Lighting · 17 Oct 2006

We have a light bulb in our office which is half full of water, and was still working when it was removed!

I have seen drum fittings full of water and still working.

Strange stuff that water.

THRIPSTER · 18 Oct 2006

Perhaps the bulb was always full of water but the disturbance caused by the flooding displaced some of it so that air managed to get in?

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