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TomcoPDR
08-03-2009, 07:03 PM
Anyone had this happen?

9005 Sylvania halogen

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r95/Tomcompany/Past%20repairs/Random/100_3394.jpg
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r95/Tomcompany/Past%20repairs/Random/100_3396.jpg
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r95/Tomcompany/Past%20repairs/Random/100_3395.jpg
Grogador
08-03-2009, 07:07 PM
Did you touch it with your greasy fingers? Usually what happens... wipe with isopropyl alcohol (the good stuff, 99.953%)
TomcoPDR
08-03-2009, 07:33 PM
Originally posted by Grogador
Did you touch it with your greasy fingers? Usually what happens... wipe with isopropyl alcohol (the good stuff, 99.953%)

No, this is a 1.5 year old bulb.

Edit: like been using it for 1.5 yr... but just never seen the glass warp like that, maybe I just haven't change euff bulbs.
ExtraSlow
08-03-2009, 07:34 PM
Looks like a manufacturing defect somehow. I'd take it back.
97'Scort
08-03-2009, 11:22 PM
It can happen if the filament melts but doesn't blow the fuse, ie, it's essentially a coil heater now. So until it breaks or blows the fuse, then it keeps melting it.

I've seen it before, it's considered a mode of failure at the end of a bulb's life. In any case, it would short or break before it started an actual fire or anything.
chkolny541
08-03-2009, 11:35 PM
Originally posted by 97'Scort

I've seen it before, it's considered a mode of failure at the end of a bulb's life. In any case, it would short or break before it started an actual fire or anything.
i think its happened to me too

and BTW fantastic pictures! i hate the super up close blurry pics that ppl love to take