How To: Remove a Broken Lightbulb Using a Potato
If you’ve ever had a light bulb shatter, you know that removing the remains form your lamp can be a daunting task.
However, the housing can be quickly removed using NO tools at all. When a light bulb shatters the remaining portion is likely to be the glass mount (small glass rod containing filament) and the housing (screwed in to the lamp). Using pliers can crush the glass mount, so a potato is our tool of choice!
Take a potato and carve it in to a rectangle roughly the width of the base of the light bulb. Next, push this potato on to the Glass Mount. Then twist to the left. The potato is just strong enough to form a tight grip over the Glass Mount with out crushing it and the remaining portion of the light bulb can be unscrewed.
