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So you have a ceiling fan in a room with a cathedral ceiling that needs a light bulb and no ladder available. Using a broom stick, an empty pill bottle, a hair scrunchy, a large chef’s knife, and some duct tape you can build Bulb Changing Tool 5000. Simply cut a series 1-1/2″ long slits lengthwise starting at the open end of the pill bottle to make a collapseable bulb holder. Wrap the hair scrunchy around the pill bottle to enable a nice grippy action. Punch a hole in the bottom of the pill bottle.
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…and the stilll attached knife it so fend off suddenly attacking zombies, yes?
yeah, exactly, zombies, yeah…….
why the hell do you need a chunky knife like that attached, aside from trying to win a darwin award holding that end and being an improvising a melee weapon for a zombie Apocalypse i dont see the point in the knife
Of course there is the option to turn it around and stick it in a live light socket and off yourself that way, too. Darwin isn’t choosy.
Simple answer
Customer : Why is there a knife at the end of it?
Inventor : …Why not?
Customer : Well that’s kind of dangerous. Maybe we could try without the knife.
Inventor : …I guess we could try that, I never really thought about it.
Not every invention can be perfect on its first day.
Am I missing something? In the first picture he has for some reason dismembered the clear lightbulb rendering it useless. In the second and third pictures he shows his mutilated thorazine prescription bottle which makes sense. The fourth picture shows us some good old-fashioned duct tape skills. Now in the fifth picture, inexplicably, our intrepid cludger has duct-taped a kitchen knife to the back side of the broomstick. WTF?! Is this some sort of dual-purpose invention that also serves as an offensive weapon for the zombie apocalypse? Am I seriously supposed to grab the Bulb Changing Tool 5000 by the pointy bits? Now, in picture six our masochistic inventor has put the clear lightbulb back together (by magic?) and stuffed it into the non-pointy end of his tool. In my experience, when the shiny part gets separated from the glassy part, you can’t put Humpty back together again and expect him to shine. Onward to picture eight where we see that obviously busted clear bulb has been replaced with a possibly not busted white bulb. Bravo. Now, in the final picture, we see, in full glory, our completed Bulb Changing Tool 5000 complete with built-in castration device. Seriously, dude…refill the prescription and go back to playing checkers with the guy who thinks he’s Mary Queen of Scots.
tldr; wtf, dude?! Are you trying to cut your nuts off or change a lightbulb? Get a freakin’ ladder.
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I think the knife is so he/she can fend off anyone who tries to say “How many kludgers does it take to change a lightb…urk”
Knife is so they can cut the ceiling fan down so they can change the bulb.
I actually have a tool for changing light bulbs that works the exact same way. … Minus the knife.
The ones without the knife can be bought at many home improvement and hardware stores. I can’t tell what the knife is for, except for causing accidental bloodshed.
This only works for light bulbs that fit inside the pill bottle “grabber” … why not just use one of these?
Why the f**k is there a knife on the other end???!!!
I have been puzzling over the knife blade for a while…
Crap. This is going to bug me for days. Seriously, what is the point of the stupid knife?!?
And no pun intended.
Actually a (preferably clean) toilet plunger on a broom handle, with some duct tape strategically placed to grip the bulb works too. Saw it on Red Green (who is surely the patron saint of this site) and promptly stole it.
I made a Red Green reference once — someone thought I was talking about duct tape colors…
Might want to point out that it only works on small bulbs.
Or just spend $20 on this http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100354521/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=light%20bulb%20pole&storeId=10051
and save yourself the medical bills!
The need for the knife would be clear if my description wouldn’t have been cut off. Guess I’ll have to keep it brief next time. Anyway, often with ceiling fans the bulb separates from the base (see the upper left photo). So, you are left with trying to figure out how to get the base out of the socket. With the light switch OFF, insert the tip of the knife along side the bulb base and the socket. With a little twisting motion while working around the perimeter of the bulb base you can collapse the base in on itself until it comes out of the socket. Once the base is loose enough, you may be able to insert the knife directly into base and turn it out.
As with many postings on this site, there are often readily available store bought solutions. However, the purpose of this website is to celebrate the ingenuity of crafty people across the globe. Kludgers unite!!!!!!!
I lost a bet because of the four comments which DIDN’T mention the knife…. I was sure all of them would have had to!!!
And… Why not just use a flippin’ potato to get the rest of the bulb out like the rest of the world. Seriously? A knife?!
Should have just stuck with the Zombie theory.
ingenuity? I’m fairly certain stupidity is what we’re celebrating at this site. Attaching a giant knife to the end a stick you intend to hold over your head for example.
I use pliers with the breaker off to get out lightbulb bases. Grasp the base of the filament and carefully twist.
I clicked comments to question the knife…. but it seems I’ve been beaten to it.
instead of the knife, try a potato instead.
Also doubles as an emergency bathtub stopper.
And a battery.
And…
We should have a contest. “How many things can you kludge with a potato”?
You’re not Irish, are you?
Ammunition.
And waste a perfectly good potato? I am Irish and would never do such a thing. Haven’t you heard about the famine we had a while back? Besides, a potato is certainly useful for getting a bulb out where the glass broke, but as great as they are even potatoes have their limits. No potato is going to remove just the metal base when the glue that holds the glass in has failed and not the glass itself. ….and as others have pointed out, the tool can also be used for zombies. Don’t forget the double tap.
The life of the wife is ended by the knife…
If that is the broken bulb in pic. 1,
how did he/she(i’m betting he..) get it off/down?
Has to have a ladder….
The same way it gets the other bulb on. You shove the thing around the bulb and the pill bottle wraps around it tight enough to turn the dead bulb free.
I would think a flathead screwdriver or thin paint scraper would work better then a butcher knife for prying the bottom part of the bulb out of the socket though.
With the knife! See above
By throwing a shoe at it hoping it would come off completely.
The remaining socket then required some innovation. Since the handle of the horror tool was already there some synergy also entered the game.
My question: Why was the shoe not mentioned? Since it has such an important role in the process?
The tool doubles also to fend of wild potatoes and christian vegetables.
The knife is a bad idea. Even with light switch off you risk electrocution! In Europe for instance the common power system is “single-phase electric power” having a live wire and a neutral. That means that one “hole” of the outlet has always power on it, while the other is safe. If your ceiling fan is not plugged in correctly or the two wires have been mixed in the switch (it will still work of course), you WILL get an electric shock even with if the switch is off! So never, NEVER put a metal thing into an outlet or a bulb socket! Or you pull the fuse first.
except the broomstick is probably plastic or wood
WHAT FUSE? DIPLICK WHERE U FROM MR KNOW IT ALL (HILLBILLY)
the one in the fuse box that turns off the outlet or socket when you remove it