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Bayonet light bulb with 3 prongs?!
egyptiangirl
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The bulb in my lounge has just blown. My house was a new build 4 years ago so this was the original bulb.
I took it out to change it and a two prong bayonet wouldn't fit and I saw it was 3 pronged!
Never seen this before and trotted off to B&Q and among thousands of bulbs not one had 3 prongs!
Does anyone know where it is cheap to get these from? I think I saw one online for like £15!! Is that what I'm going to have to pay?!
I took it out to change it and a two prong bayonet wouldn't fit and I saw it was 3 pronged!
Never seen this before and trotted off to B&Q and among thousands of bulbs not one had 3 prongs!
Does anyone know where it is cheap to get these from? I think I saw one online for like £15!! Is that what I'm going to have to pay?!
Always on the hunt for a bargain.
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http://www.electricswarehouse.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=724
do you mean "railway" bulbs?
B22D fiiting.Get some gorm.0 -
That is a BC3 fitting, required by law on all new builds for quite a while now to force you to use so called energy saving lamps.
The lamps are readily available if you want to take it up the backside in the money stakes, although I'd personally swap the holder over for a standard one myself.Remember kids, it's the volts that jolt and the mills that kill.0
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