13.07.2025 And there was light!

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 Sunday 13th 58F/14.4C [7.00] Overcast. A wet morning is forecast. Brighter this afternoon. Windy from the NE.

 Up at 6am after an overly-active night. I don't think water suits me. 

 7.15 It is drizzling visibly. 

 8.20 Back from a half hour walk. It stayed dry but damp. With the wind flapping my lightweight rain jacket at intervals. A few gulls and warblers. Little traffic, or anything else of note.

 12.15 Back from a drive to Odense. I needed some O-ring tools and fish food. Both big shed outlets were side by side and open on Sundays. 

 14.00 One of the front side light bulbs on the Morris had blown. First it took ages to free the plastic lens. Due to friction and corrosion. Thick and grippy industrial rubber gloves allowed sufficient grip without breakage. 

 Then onto removing the old bulb. Which was frozen fast in place by rust to its housing. After breaking the bulb envelope with pincers. I was able to turn the bulb using a screwdriver inserted into the empty bulb. While the thin brass casing was simultaneously being clamped tightly. To the  screwdriver blade with fine nosed pliers. It was almost flush by then. It really did not want to come out but gave up in the end. Just as it collapsed in on itself. Had it remained stuck it might have blown the fuse.

 Much cleaning of the empty housing and a squirt of WD40. Eventually freed up the contact spring. Then a watchmakers screwdriver was used to clean the grooves. For the bayonet bulb's locking pins. Finally there was light from the new bulb. Without having broken it in the struggle. Success!

 Dinner was fish fingers and chips. I washed up while it cooked.

  

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