Editor's Note: Mark Hetts is on vacation this week. This column originally ran the week of July 11, 2004. Q:You recently wrote about extracting stuck and/or broken bulbs from light fixtures. I work ...

Q A few months past, you wrote about extracting stuck and/or broken bulbs from light fixtures. I work for a power company, and we sometimes have difficulty unscrewing bulbs in streetlights. We prevent ...

Incandescent light bulbs are known to occasionally shatter in their fixtures—and when they do, it’s both difficult and dangerous to extract the bulb’s threaded base from the socket. Bits of broken ...

Wondering how to remove that broken light bulb base? This guide will tell you how to safely deal with the accident. Taylor Martin has covered technology online for over six years. He has reviewed ...