Incandescent light bulbs are known to occasionally shatter in their fixtures—and when they do, it’s both difficult and dangerous to extract the bulb’s threaded base from the socket. Bits of broken ...

Ever try to change a lightbulb only to find it's broken? If you have nothing to grasp onto, how will you get it out? Luckily your light fixture or lamp doesn't have to be rendered useless. Lighting ...

Have you ever struggled to remove a shattered lightbulb from its socket? BobVila.com has three methods of extracting a broken bulb. Before attempting any of these techniques, disconnect the power ...

Among things that frustrate: A hangnail; a pen that doesn't write; sealing a check in an envelope and then remembering you forgot to sign it -- and the bulb is broken off in the socket of your ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Expert handyman Sean Buino tackles the myth, ...

Among things that frustrate: A hangnail; a pen that doesn't write; sealing a check in an envelope and then remembering you forgot to sign it -- and the bulb is broken off in the socket of your ...