How to remove broken lightbulb?

Usually the potato works. Are you using a raw potato? Did you cut it in half? Moreover if you are trying to get it out and the socket is moving round and round it may indicate you need to replace to whole socket. It could be dangerous to keep it in there with such a loose socket. Cheers! Pablo

I don't know if you can picture what I suggest but I would like to try to suggest so here it is: 1. Ask somebody to HOLD the Fixture socket in place. 2. Get a screw driver (the flat one)and set its tip onto one side of the broken bulb base. 3. Slowly tap the bottom of the screw driver with a small hammer or something allowing the tip of the screw driver to rotate the broken bulb base. Make sure the direction of the broken bulb base will go counter clockwise (Please check in what direction the light bulb will loosen - normally it is counter clockwise). 4. Hope to get the broken bulb base slowly rotate and loosen up. 5. Eat the hashbrowns I hope it works for you as it worked for me.

so you are caught in a very problematic situation, breepeace. i will try to move it around using pliers at first. if this will not work, i will find some fillers which i will make the pliers to bite and make it fill in the broken bulb then move it around using the pliers. this will usually do the trick. another method i have tried is to use to small pliers. each one bites at the opposite sides of the remains of the broken bulb. then i will twist it around at the same time. good luck.

I've pried them out with needle nose pliers before. It wasn't too hard. Just be careful now, don't cut yourself!

I sure hope when you eat those floor hashbrowns they don't have any glass in them!!! :) Good to hear you got it all taken care of, however. Luckily, I've never had to remove a broken lightbulb... yet.

Hi there Bree, I'm so sorry to hear about your predicament! Isn't life fun? I am so sorry to take such amusement from your situation but as I was reading your posting I was going to suggest using a potato as well, only to discover that instead of giving your light bulb out of the socket you've made hash browns for breakfast! I am so sorry that I do not have a suggestion to help you but I want to thank you for giving me a little chuckle for the day... And again, look on the bright side you now have fresh hash browns! Happy Mylotting.

Well try using a bigger screw driver and try to screw it out yea . forcing it out will make it more worst yea

Hey man, it's very simple to remove it. Just take a hollow rod which can go inside it, press the rod inside and rotate it slowly in anticlock wise direction. Then release the pressure from the rod It will come outside.

Well you have done the most important thing and that is turn the breaker off. If this is lamp, then it sounds like the lamp itself is broken in some way and should be repaired or tossed. If it is some kind of wall fixture and where the bulb screws in is loose then that may need repair. You could try a strap type wrench to hold the fixture and then try your needle nose plairs but I think you may need something a little heavier than needle nose and that will expand with some gripping or that will let you grab the edge of the bulb if any is sticking up.

Well my suggestion would have been shutting off the breaker and using pliers. You have me beat already. I hope you get it out. I had one like that once. I could never get it out. Finally a handy family member was able to get it out. It was not fun because it was a main light in my kitchen. Good luck! Oh yah and I made hashbrowns too!

Instead of thinking to put lot of effort to remove it as told by other mylotters, why not just get rid of the bulb holder itself? if trying removing bulb is dangeous, i wouldn't take risk. To detach the holder, probably the best thing to do it cutting the wire and the holder will be detached. now you can buy a new holder and bulb. if you are really wanting to use the same holder, you can try it now as it is not high anymore

I was going to say the potato thing, but you already tried that. Seems like it's really stuck in there, do you have a husband, boyfriend, brother? Man usually know how to handle this stuff better. Good luck getting that thing out anyway.