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Need help saving my diffuser
Hey guys had a bit of a crazy night last night and one of my drunken friends knocked my 7mm Illadelph tube over while we were having some late-night festivities and unfortunately some glass broke. Luckily the tube survived without a scratch, but the joint on the bowl snapped off and it is still stuck in my diffuser. Now I have accepted that the bowl is lost and thankfully it was just the stock bowl and not something nicer, but the broken joint is stuck in the diffuser and nothing is working. I tried using a metal piece with a hook at the end to try and pull it out but it hasn't worked so do you guys know any other tricks? I was kinda thinking about just trying to break the broken glass joint apart but i'm not really sure the best way to do so. The diffuser isn't broken in any way so it would be nice to save it if possible :pray:. Thanks for any help guys!
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trip down memory lane....
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hearmeroor
ohh man lol, how did this work exactly?
a friend of mine and I were restoring an old barn from the 1800s. There were a few light sockets that were extremely primitive. We couldn't find the breaker anywhere, we looked all day, i didn't know anything about electricity so I wasn't sure if they even had them originally or what... One of the few lights in the barn had a broken bulb. Like the metal part of the bulb was still in the socket and there were some sharp shards of glass sticking out. Every time i tried to unscrew it it gave me a mean shock. My friend told me he would give me $100 to get it down. So i tried relentlessly. Eventually, we called it a day. I told my father the story, and he's oldschool, like WW 1 old school and he told me the potato trick. I cut it in half boiled it for about 10 minutes till it was soft but not mash potatoes. Went to work with it wrapped in foil still warm and basically just smashed it up over the whole fixture and with one twist it came out. I thought i was god for 5 minutes until my friend informed me that he knew where the circuit box was the whole time and he just enjoyed watching me shock myself over and over for $100. He still brings it up. If anyone says anything about $100, he's like. "you know the best hundred i ever spent?"