75w Rough service bulb

I've been using the compact flourescent bulbs. Drop them all the time and no filiment to break plus much less heat. If you smack it hard enough the glass will break but then again so will an incandecent. Haven't broken one yet though.
 
Rough service bulbs are exempt. Just the same, I don't think I'd miss them if they were banned. I've burned myself with an incandescent trouble light enough times to know that fluorescent or LED trouble lights make a lot more sense.
 
I have heard that specialty light bulbs will always be available, it's just the standard incandescent that are being phased out. But, the nnalert have blocked any funding for enforcement of that law so Menards still has lots of 100w incandescent! I guess if you want to waste energy you can go ahead!
 
I have used the compact florescent bulbs also. They work very well, however you want to be careful about breaking the bulbs. I don't remember where it came from but I have an email at work that show a guys foot where he got mercury poisoning from a cut with a cfl bulb. I have started using the led lights and they are sure nice also.


Steven
 
Rough service light bulbs are exempt for now, but I would not count on this remaining so indefinitely.

Dean
 
I put a floresent bulbs in My trouble light bout 6 months ago, One of them ones that look like a big screw. Was the omly thing we had in the house at the Time. Wished I would of done it 5 years ago or whenever they came on the market. Never blew out, Been droped 3 feet on to the concrete, bumped 100"s of times, Only thing that did it in was water driped on it from the car. Replace it with another floresent one.
 
The famous "mercury poisoning" picture is a hoax. The picture itself is quite real, but has nothing to do with a broken fluorescent bulb.
 
About ten years ago I tried a different style trouble light that uses a regular foot long flourecent light. I like it, it throws better light and hardly any heat. The bulb is well protected inside a plastic cover so I have not had to replace it yet.

I haven't tried a curly flourescent bulb in a regular trouble light yet. The tungston lights are way too bright and hot for me, they are only OK for lighting a large area.
 
Have used the flouresent trouble lights in the shop for years.
Provide decent light.
No more burnt arms.
Plastic case won't short across electrical connections like the metal case.
Not as dangerous when working around flammables.
With that said they are not worth a darn if you need something to light right up when it is minus 40.
As well they are useless if you need to thaw out a frozen watering bowl .
Dave
 
(quoted from post at 01:16:26 01/03/13) With the demise of the incandesent light bulb what new bulb will stand up in a trouble light.
Get yourself some stop light bulbs (if you can find them). 135W and very heavy duty.
 
(quoted from post at 01:55:24 01/03/13) I have heard that specialty light bulbs will always be available, it's just the standard incandescent that are being phased out. But, the nnalert have blocked any funding for enforcement of that law so Menards still has lots of 100w incandescent! [b:6c386045a8]I guess if you want to waste energy you can go ahead![/b:6c386045a8]
For some of us it has less to do with wanting to waste energy as it does Big Brother telling us what we can and can't use. As long as I'm paying my own electric bill it's none of their business what type of light bulbs I use.
 
I'm with Pops, none of their darn business until I break the law.

I use a light bulb to keep my water valves thawed in the barn in winter. It's become very hard to find 15 or 25 watt bulbs anymore. Even 40's are hard to find.

Those florescent bulb are okay, but they don't like cold weather at all. So I have to heat a whole big area to get the air warm enough for the bulbs to light to save energy????
 
Lots of myths.

1. You are NOT breaking the law by continuing to use bulbs that were made before the "ban."
2. Stores are NOT breaking the law by continuing to sell bulbs that were made before the "ban." They can sell them until their stock runs out.
3. Specialty bulbs are exempt. I just bought a 100W rough service bulb for my trouble light at Home Depot last week. Teflon coated.
4. Compact fluorescent bulbs WILL warm up on their own after a few minutes. There is no need to heat the space.
5. Many newer compact fluorescent bulbs are designed to provide full brightness when cold. You may need to look for wording like "quick start" or "cold weather duty" on the package.

Do people seriously think the Federal government is going to come knocking on the door looking for their light bulbs?
 
Harbor Freight used to carry them but now they don't. I thought for sure with all the china stuff they could of surly still sold them ?

Guess not.
 
I thought that law was repealed. Go into any store and the shelves are full of incandesent bulbs. Wife switched our lights of cf's and hated them, we are now switching every thing back to incandesent bulbs. I just bought rough service bulbs from Ace this week.
 
The manufacturing of 100W incandesent were banded in 2012. If you find any they are old stock found in warehouse. From what I have been told by the electrical supplier that I use that all incandesent were to be band in 2014.
 

I really do think that ban was dissolved, but in any event, I have laid in a stock pile of my own and probably will keep adding to it.

I tried those curly-cue bulbs. They do NOT last any longer than an incandescent, they DO cost more, and they do NOT put out as much light.
 
"grinder goosenecks"

Gordo - I've had one of the CFLs on my grinder for a couple of years now. I figured it would fail as soon as I turned the grinder on, but so far. . .

I wish I'd written the date on it when I put it in.

Another good use for them is in a ceiling fan light.
 
I knew a guy who was a good mechanic but didn't read or write so well.
He called them rough surface bulbs.
When he mentioned it I wasn't sure exactly what he was talking about.
We discussed it a bit so I grabbed a new one off his shelf and pointed out on the package it was rough S E R V I C E.
He snatched it from me and took the bulb out and scraped his thumbnail over it and said
rough S U R F A C E!
LOL
I let him win that one.
They do have that plastic coating that gives them an eggshell texture.
 
All good quetions and answers, I've been wondering about this for a while now. Especelly sever duty bulbs ( oven ) and (porch) lights.
 
Specialty bulbs. I use blue and red 25w bulbs to heat the cat house, and also use 40w half chrome bulbs to heat it with also. I also use a 75w black light bulb when it gets extremely cold.

Charles
 
So far, they seem kind of expensive. I have been using CF bulbs in my trouble lights, and they seem to work fine. They don"t get nearly as hot as incandescent bulbs and seem to be tougher than regular old bulbs.

However sometimes you want and need the heat of an incandescent bulb. I heat my doghouse with two old fashioned 100 watt bulbs in haymow fixtures. With the bulbs wired in series, they seem to last a very long time.

When I heard about the ridiculous ban a few years ago, I stocked up on incandescent bulbs. Must have a hundred, or so, stashed in the basement. They will probably last me the rest of my life!

LED bulbs seem to work great for lots of things, but until the price comes down a bunch, I don"t think I will be buying many. I have only used them in places where it is really difficult to change the bulbs, and where the lights are usually left on all the time.
 

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