how many internets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
how the internets works:
i get a chat from brent, who tells me he built a piano and these cool lamps.
cool lamps brent. even cooler piano. wow.
i suggest running european lights in his lamps to get them to glow orange and way less bright (just like my lamp from istanbul - thanks to jonathan and cheryl).
will they fit?
sheesh. if I know a think or two about threads (and I do, mostly from bicycling), they suck. at least making sense of them does.
so i check the internets for threads for lightbulbs. it turns out you can learn lots of things from the internets.
E26 is the standard thread for american lightbulbs (the e is for edison, duh) and E27 for eurpean bulbs. 26mm is the next full mm above 1 inch.
there are a host of reasons why, but an interesting cartel is likely partly to blame. who knew? the scandanavians were responsible for breaking the cartel and ensuring that we all have lightbulbs that actually last!
(tangent - I also learned about sintering! which is, I gather, how 3D printers work.)
but wait! what's this about Mazda? yes, mary's car=lightbulb? she drives fast, but hey, not THAT fast. well, somehow it turns out that mazda is two distinct trademarks. one is for a japanese car company party owned by ford (who would rather sell all of volvo (the passenger car brand which they bought from Volvo (the heavy truck brand) (see the scandanvian link above for further conspiracies)) than part of a japanese company.
Mazda is a brand of lightbulb (and anything other than a car) that was owned by GE (and licensed to just about anyone) enough so that song writer Johnny Mercer made a reference to it in his song "glow worm" (made popular by the mills bros) which happens to be an EXCELLENT song (anyone who can rhyme mazda and fazda wins points in my book)
all of that means that you end up finding this 16 year old girl in the philipines who has a GREAT voice and is not a bad songwriter herself and does an excellent cover of glow worm that goes...a little... like this:
so maybe 27 doesn't fit, and maybe it does (I know 26 fits loosely in 27 from experience, and I suspect .5mm on either side should be okay based on some years putting in lightbulbs (which reminds me of a joke or two...)
and THAT is how the internets works!
i get a chat from brent, who tells me he built a piano and these cool lamps.
cool lamps brent. even cooler piano. wow.
i suggest running european lights in his lamps to get them to glow orange and way less bright (just like my lamp from istanbul - thanks to jonathan and cheryl).
will they fit?
sheesh. if I know a think or two about threads (and I do, mostly from bicycling), they suck. at least making sense of them does.
so i check the internets for threads for lightbulbs. it turns out you can learn lots of things from the internets.
E26 is the standard thread for american lightbulbs (the e is for edison, duh) and E27 for eurpean bulbs. 26mm is the next full mm above 1 inch.
there are a host of reasons why, but an interesting cartel is likely partly to blame. who knew? the scandanavians were responsible for breaking the cartel and ensuring that we all have lightbulbs that actually last!
(tangent - I also learned about sintering! which is, I gather, how 3D printers work.)
but wait! what's this about Mazda? yes, mary's car=lightbulb? she drives fast, but hey, not THAT fast. well, somehow it turns out that mazda is two distinct trademarks. one is for a japanese car company party owned by ford (who would rather sell all of volvo (the passenger car brand which they bought from Volvo (the heavy truck brand) (see the scandanvian link above for further conspiracies)) than part of a japanese company.
Mazda is a brand of lightbulb (and anything other than a car) that was owned by GE (and licensed to just about anyone) enough so that song writer Johnny Mercer made a reference to it in his song "glow worm" (made popular by the mills bros) which happens to be an EXCELLENT song (anyone who can rhyme mazda and fazda wins points in my book)
all of that means that you end up finding this 16 year old girl in the philipines who has a GREAT voice and is not a bad songwriter herself and does an excellent cover of glow worm that goes...a little... like this:
so maybe 27 doesn't fit, and maybe it does (I know 26 fits loosely in 27 from experience, and I suspect .5mm on either side should be okay based on some years putting in lightbulbs (which reminds me of a joke or two...)
and THAT is how the internets works!
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