{"id":27061,"date":"2016-07-28T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27061"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T03:46:55","slug":"electralube-light-bulb-lubricant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/electralube-light-bulb-lubricant\/","title":{"rendered":"Electralube Light Bulb Lubricant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowhere on Earth is the concept of entropy more apparent than aboard an oceangoing ship, which is where I first discovered Electralube. As a Third Assistant Engineer, one of my unglamorous regular (and never-ending) duties was &#8220;re-lamping&#8221; &#8211; replacing burned out light bulbs in all the ship&#8217;s machinery spaces. The combination of 24\/7 use, moist salt air and vibration caused the flimsy metal threads of the bulb bases (don&#8217;t even get me started on the idiotic design that is the Edison screw!) to rust or arc weld themselves into their sockets, which meant a broken bulb and additional sweaty minutes atop a ladder on a pitching ship with a pair of needle-nose pliers and a headlamp, trying to pry the stuck metal bits out. <\/p>\n<p>Electralube put an end to all that. It&#8217;s a light, conductive grease that comes in a little jar with a sponge in it. The sponge holds the lube. You just dip the bulb base in the sponge, give it a spin to coat the threads and then screw the bulb into the socket. I use it for every bulb change, and it&#8217;s essential for fixtures in damp locations, and for that corroded, janky old socket you&#8217;ve been meaning to replace in that beloved antique lamp. The next person to change that bulb will thank you.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lubricates light bulb screws to protect against corrosion, moisture and broken light bulbs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27063,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061\/revisions\/27063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}