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DIY & Home Improvement

Grasswire2

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9. That's true.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #8)

Sun Sep 29, 2019, 11:57 PM

Sep 2019

But inhaling the vapor sounds particularly yucko.

And then there are the tiny tiny bits of glass everywhere. Nine hours later I'm still finding bits that glisten in the light.

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So today a burned-out 4-foot flourescent tube bulb exploded on my kitchen floor. [View all] Grasswire2 Sep 2019 OP

Here are guidelines for how to clean up a broken flourescent bulb: Liberty Belle Sep 2019 #1

Wow. Never even thought about it. blm Sep 2019 #3

this is a four foot long older flourescent tube. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #4

The actual amount of mercury in one of those tubes is very small The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #2

well, here I sit eating a cod dinner. :-) nt Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #5

When we were kids we'd play with the little beads of mercury The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #8

That's true. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #9

You had the fish? Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2019 #10

Oh dear - I used to delight in throwing pnwest Sep 2019 #6

thanks for the tip. i had one go out and burnt out my lamp fixture which set off the master AllaN01Bear Sep 2019 #7