Replacement light bulb

hyacinth


Joined: 24/09/2010
Posts: 6

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 11:02

Hi, hoping some one will know where I can get a replacement bulb for my sewing machine. I need a 15 watt screw in type. Thanks.

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 11:26

Take the bulb out and take it in to Tektan.

Cyprusquest


Joined: 09/12/2008
Posts: 428

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 12:18

Msg 1 you might find it is similar to ones used in ovens so have a look at the size of them.

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 12:59

BTW - "Bulb" is an Americanism. We would call it a lamp. Bulbs are what flowers grow from.

Surprised DC didn't pick-up on that one!

baldy


Joined: 18/11/2008
Posts: 70

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 13:25

Light bulb is the correct grammatical description. A lamp is a device that produces illumination when fitted with a light bulb.

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 14:11

Tried to get one for the wife's machine here and I am a regular customer with most of the electrical suppliers and no one could supply. Ended up sending details to one of our neighbours who was coming out from UK and they brought it. It is a special lamp/bulb so an oven one is no good. (The shape alone is totally different)

stevo-london


Joined: 23/10/2010
Posts: 253

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 15:29

nice one baldy ;)

cypgab


Joined: 09/01/2010
Posts: 338

Message Posted:
21/03/2011 17:41

Where did you get that from Vaughan?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
22/03/2011 01:04

The modern world is an electrified world. The light bulb, in particular, profoundly changed human existence by illuminating the night and making it hospitable to a wide range of human activity. The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison. He was neither the first nor the only person trying to invent an incandescent light bulb. THE STORY





DID YOU KNOW?

Invention: electric light bulb in 1879

Definition: noun / electric light bulb / incandescent lamp

Function: An electric lamp in which a filament is heated to incandescence by an electric current. Today's incandescent light bulbs use filaments made of tungsten rather than carbon of the 1880's.

Patent: 223,898 (US) issued January 27, 1880

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
22/03/2011 01:06

Inventor: Thomas Alva Edison



Criteria: First practical. Modern prototype. Entrepreneur.

Birth: February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio

Death: October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey

Nationality: American

Hoylemiller



Joined: 03/09/2010
Posts: 240

Message Posted:
22/03/2011 08:44

They call them 'Globes' in South Africa. I wonder why???

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
22/03/2011 08:49

Bill,



Joseph Swan, a British inventor, obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year prior to Edison's patent date. Swan even publicly unveiled his carbon filament light bulb in Newcastle, England a minimum of 10 years before Edison shocked the world with the announcement that he invented the first light bulb. Edison's light bulb, in fact, was a carbon copy of Swan's light bulb.



Edison was a consummate thief of other people's ideas.