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Old 01-04-2008, 00:02 AM   #83 (permalink)
JAD_333
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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship View Post
The weather seal of the outside socket will not accept the short stem of a CFL. When I turn on electrical items in the rain, I feel a bit more confident if they are watertight. So naturally I will not cut out the rubber seal just to take an overpriced and badly designed CFL.
One of the downsides of switching to CFLs is not all existing light fixtures work for all of them. And try attaching a lampshade to one of those sprial jobs... Rusty, you'll just have to do what we did back when the horseless carriage came along...adapt. Remember?
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