kaiser715
Doing hard time
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2006
- Location
- 7, Pocket, NC
....ought to be shot.
I have a GE Spacemaker microwave oven (above-range), that we put in when we built the house in 2002. Well, one of the light bulbs (for the rangetop, on the bottom of the unit) finally blew. We bought a couple of new bulbs, and went to unscrew the old.
Guess what?
The dumbasses glued the bulbs in at the factory. I read that some used hot-glue, others were epoxy. Heat gun didn't loosen mine. GE sells the socket for $17 bucks, I need 2. Hopefully will find them cheaper elsewhere.
And then...
After the one bulb blew, the other lamp would not turn off. I found that a lamp blowing out will also cause the controller to get fried on these. What kind of an idiot engineer runs an unprotected circuit like that? Bulb is 120v, I'd think it would be relay-controlled anyway. I did find a place that remans the controller for fifty bucks.
Controller ($50), sockets ($34) bulbs ($10) PLUS shipping and handling...for what should have been a $5 bulb replacement.
Grrrrrrr.
I have a GE Spacemaker microwave oven (above-range), that we put in when we built the house in 2002. Well, one of the light bulbs (for the rangetop, on the bottom of the unit) finally blew. We bought a couple of new bulbs, and went to unscrew the old.
Guess what?
The dumbasses glued the bulbs in at the factory. I read that some used hot-glue, others were epoxy. Heat gun didn't loosen mine. GE sells the socket for $17 bucks, I need 2. Hopefully will find them cheaper elsewhere.
And then...
After the one bulb blew, the other lamp would not turn off. I found that a lamp blowing out will also cause the controller to get fried on these. What kind of an idiot engineer runs an unprotected circuit like that? Bulb is 120v, I'd think it would be relay-controlled anyway. I did find a place that remans the controller for fifty bucks.
Controller ($50), sockets ($34) bulbs ($10) PLUS shipping and handling...for what should have been a $5 bulb replacement.
Grrrrrrr.
could just about buy a cheap new one for that much