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I changed all my lamps recently and I just pulled the sidelight out, doesn't seem to be anyway of releasing it.
Mine weren't even tight the first time...
Main beam bulbs required a good hard tug though to get the connectors off... had to get the pliers out!!
Main beam bulbs required a good hard tug though to get the connectors off... had to get the pliers out!!
MAKE VERY SURE the bulb is firmly in the socket before you pushfit it back into place....I had my newly replaced sidelight bulb fall out as I pushed it in.....no way of getting it out..its rattling about in the lamp housing to this day...and I had to buy another sidelight bulb
(don't blame me..my dad's a Scot)
(don't blame me..my dad's a Scot)
Originally posted by mark sheerin
MAKE VERY SURE the bulb is firmly in the socket before you pushfit it back into place....I had my newly replaced sidelight bulb fall out as I pushed it in.....no way of getting it out..its rattling about in the lamp housing to this day...and I had to buy another sidelight bulb
Where there's a will, there's a way... tried a magnet on a piece of wire?
The sidelight bulbs aren't conventional sidelight bulbs..
They are only about 1.5cm x .5cm without a metal base just two wire tails.
don't think a magnet would do it..and then you wouldn't have enough grip to pull them back through the hole.
In my job as a woodworker we often get sawdust or metal filings in our eyes despite wearing goggles (non beer) all day.
Three times I've been to casualty to have small metal filings removed from the surface of my eye.
Each time the procedure has always been the same.
You try to keep your eye open while the doctor digs and picks the shard out with a needle
My dad says in his day they used to use a strong magnet...
makes more sense to me as you usually take a very painful days recovery to heal from their picking around with the needle.
Plus you can't see to drive home as one eye is painful and streaming and your reflex action keeps closing the other one too
Very tacky chewing gum on the end of a piece of wire?? (Just remember not to chew again afterwards!!! )
I should have known that about the sidelight bulbs, changing them only last week!!
Sounds vicious having to have splinters removed from your eyes like that!! Don't think I could do it - be the doctor OR the patient that is!!!
Well, maybe the patient after a few good lungfuls of NO2, with enough anasthetic to send me to sleep for a week!!!
I take it the eye washes didn't work then?
)I should have known that about the sidelight bulbs, changing them only last week!!
Sounds vicious having to have splinters removed from your eyes like that!! Don't think I could do it - be the doctor OR the patient that is!!!
Well, maybe the patient after a few good lungfuls of NO2, with enough anasthetic to send me to sleep for a week!!!
I take it the eye washes didn't work then?
It doesn't hurt at the time because they put this gel on that aneasthetises the eyes surface..Its weird mentally trying to keep your eye open while someone heads towards it with a needle..as you say the doctors are probably more nerveous than me about it.
Afterwards when the anaesthetic wears off ...about half way through your drive home then it really hurts as you start to feel all the scrapings gouging and pricks they've just done with the needle.
Usually needs about 5 hrs in a darkened room with a pillow over your head before you feel ok again.
These bomb victims with a faceful and eyeful of glass splinters must go through hell having it removed.
Afterwards when the anaesthetic wears off ...about half way through your drive home then it really hurts as you start to feel all the scrapings gouging and pricks they've just done with the needle.
Usually needs about 5 hrs in a darkened room with a pillow over your head before you feel ok again.
These bomb victims with a faceful and eyeful of glass splinters must go through hell having it removed.
Crikey!!! :eyepop:
That'll be me, unconcious on the couch after about 30 minutes, surrounded by empty bottles of vodka etc...
And to think, I can't even get the courage to try out contact lenses - not for vision, but for fun (people recon I need green eyes... or were they on about something else?!)
Talking of nervous doctors - I managed to get a student nurse (sexy one too!!) to turn very pale after one of my trips to casualty one time... guess she hadn't seen any-one with 2 missing fingerprints, with the consultants discussing whether skin grafts would be needed!! Think of the scene from Face Off...
...in & out of Casualty for about 6 weeks before they passed me back to my GP!!
Wonder of that nurse still does bandaging in Casualty???
That'll be me, unconcious on the couch after about 30 minutes, surrounded by empty bottles of vodka etc...
And to think, I can't even get the courage to try out contact lenses - not for vision, but for fun (people recon I need green eyes... or were they on about something else?!
)Talking of nervous doctors - I managed to get a student nurse (sexy one too!!
) to turn very pale after one of my trips to casualty one time... guess she hadn't seen any-one with 2 missing fingerprints, with the consultants discussing whether skin grafts would be needed!! Think of the scene from Face Off......in & out of Casualty for about 6 weeks before they passed me back to my GP!!
Wonder of that nurse still does bandaging in Casualty???
Sidelight Removal
Hi all.
I have had a search but the info I found was mainly for Ibiza's. Anyway, how the hell do I get the 501 sidelight bulbs out of my LCR headlamps? I've twisted and pulled but not no avail and now my fingers have cuts all over them.
There must be an easy way to do this? Surely I am just being dumb
Hi all.
I have had a search but the info I found was mainly for Ibiza's. Anyway, how the hell do I get the 501 sidelight bulbs out of my LCR headlamps? I've twisted and pulled but not no avail and now my fingers have cuts all over them.
There must be an easy way to do this? Surely I am just being dumb
Hi all.
I have had a search but the info I found was mainly for Ibiza's. Anyway, how the hell do I get the 501 sidelight bulbs out of my LCR headlamps. I've twisted and pulled but not no avail and now my fingers have cuts all over them.
There must be an easy way to do this? Surely I am just being dumb
thats pretty much how i did it..i use pliars to squeeze the back bit and pull it out.but there was no room in the offside so i pulled at the brown wire a bit and it popped out.
....i then found i snapped one of the connector things
i pulled at the brown wire a bit and it popped out.
....i then found i snapped one of the connector things
I won't be doing that then
I'll get the pliars out and have a tug...the connector that is, i'll save the other for later
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