Recent content by fivefoot20

If the CFLs continue to fail, check the polarity at the socket (the "shell" should be the neutral and the contact should be the hot). I have gotten a few service calls to older homes and found sockets wired backwards--which doesn't bother an incandescent lamp in the least, but apparently...

Well, shoot--that didn't work. I guess I gotta figure out how to put pics on this thing.

Here is the pic. This machine says "Coats" on the foot control.

Yes, we are actually crazy enough to use one of these--if we can find all of the various tools that go with them. We have two machines--one with the manual lower bead-breaker and one with the air-powered lower bead-breaker. The machine with the air-powered lower bead breaker is missing the...