Re: ok to use Araldite Rapid on 500W quartz bulb?

From: Ian Stirling (root_at_mauve.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/23/04


Date: 23 Nov 2004 20:44:17 GMT

In uk.d-i-y N. Thornton <bigcat@meeow.co.uk> wrote:
> Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.1c0d5f38da10194598a315@news.individual.net>...
>> In article <a7076635.0411230601.5aacccd8@posting.google.com>, "N.
>> Thornton" bigcat@meeow.co.uk says...
>
>> > a crack will let air in, result: instant filament failure.
>> > araldite hasnt got the remotest chance of surviving the temp.
>
>> It's not the envelope that's cracked.
>
> AFAIK there isnt anything else on a 500w halogen bulb that could crack.

Apart from the ceramic endy bits that the OP specifically said had cracked.



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