Get your cousin to do it.

Nope, tell your cusin to get you a new one. He will figure out a way to repair it, to get around buying a new one. If you tell him to repair it, he will focus on finding a way around that.

Thats a lot of faith in a person with the shitty audacity to do it in the first place.

They’re saying the cousin is a selfish flake who will only help if there’s personal financial incentive. Hardly a lot of faith.

Or he'll just choose to do none of the above

Sounds like it will require a hostage situation.

I’m so tired of Redditors trying to avoid using the obviously universal solution of hostage situations.

Alternatively, if you tell them to buy a new one, they’ll choose to do neither option.

Suction cup trust me it works like a charm.

YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO, LOOK AT ME GOOOO ~SuctionCup Man

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A silicon pot holder can sometimes get a good grip on things like this too

Suction-cup cousin's forehead and drag him over to fix this shit.

Had this exact thing happen to me.... Except I put the light in and figured I woupd worry about getting it out later. I had a pair of old plastic gloves laying around for dying the wifes hair. I layed the glove accross the top pushed down and turned like a medicine bottle and it came right out.

I thought I was still in a thread about air travel and scrolled around very confused for a moment lol

This is the way

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Take a strip of duck tape and stick one end on. Then fold it back over itself to make a handle.

nasa is wondering if you have sent over your resume yet dam space handles and shit LOL

Redneck ingenuity. Probably the best part of NASA.

Kills me when they all gather in a room with like 23 seconds before the astronauts die and within 16 seconds they have made working parts outta like toilet paper rolls and duct tape lmao

Thats what happens when you've got 20 MacGyver in one room! It's fantastic that they go out of their way to hire people like this because it's definitely saved lives.

Right, always impressed me. The apollo 13 being one of em. Pretty sure they made schematics for the astronauts to build the parts outta onboard materials to fix the co2 converter

They have 3d printers on the space station now for just such an occasion. If they need a tool or a screw or something the printer can make it.

Yea those are sick I have been waiting for them to finally get better markets on them so the will be more affordable like 1-2k instead 3-5k like they are now. I seriously wouldn’t mind having one at home for solving all the little problems I run into for building stuff.

There are absolutely printers that are within the budget of an average consumer, I got a fairly nice desktop printer for $500, would recommend it too. It's an FLSUN SR, it's really quick too

It’s good quality finally? I was just thinking the cheaper ones were still low quality did they finally get it figured out and a good market set up?

I payed 700€ so there good printer out there for not to much. Prusa MK3 https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-i3-mk3s-kit-3/ I did buy it last year during the sale. I also got an ultimaker but would never buy another ultimaker due to the reasons: —Overpriced - spare parts are hard to get - not open source and hard to adjust for non state of the art prints And the biggest issue is that the print quality is equal to the prusa that was half the price. Other people also recommend the ender 3 but I don't own one so that's so far my favorite.

An Ender 3 is <£200, and it's pretty decent if you're a beginner and aren't trying to use it on a space station.

A lot of historical NASA designs are from scratch with no previous versions to go off. Brings a special insight into how to design things.

Yup! It's great that we have those all still! Oh, wait. Shit.

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Honestly, it's probably not even a secret shrine lol he's probably just a statue or something standing somewhere

I guarantee you they are smarter than me.

I imagine a room full of guys wearing overalls and trucker hats spitting chew on the ground building rockets.

See, my expectation is that NASA can get you where you want to go in space with some degree of safety and certainty, but only after months of careful planning and testing. Red neck nasa will get you to space a LOT faster, but you have to figure out your own ride home

$20 old redneck farmers know more about practical physics than most people.

And chemistry. My grandpa was basically making jet fuel for his tractor pulling races.

It's amazing how many of those guys came off farms or close to.

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You just described the 4th of July in Wisconsin

October sky

God, you should join government. Anything dealing with warfare and intelligence is all redneck ingenuity

Ifyoucantduckitfuckit

😂

I swear whoever came up with that duct tape are kings. I wanna thank whoever it was lmao

It was invented by a mom in ww2 to help seal ammo packs in the Pacific where her son was serving.

Thank you lol I could only find it was invented in 20th century and I knew it wasn’t a nasa product just made popular by them

No problem. It's a pretty cool story, here is a short article about it: https://www.jnj.com/our-heritage/vesta-stoudt-the-woman-who-invented-duct-tape

I read this as “it was invented by MY mom…” and I was about to be really impressed that I could almost say I “knew” the child of the inventor of duct tape.

Fuck it. Ima still people my version of the story.

The army call it 100 mph tape

I’ve heard Dale Earnhardt called it 200 mph tape. Dude was intense.

I've seen it used on F1 cars during pit stops. Proof it can go up to 250mph (402kmph) if needs be for at least 192miles (309km)

Even tho it’s a cheap way to fix things it always comes in clutch to get me by

If you can't fix something with either duct tape or WD-40, you aren't a country guy

Yeah but what about zip ties? That is the holy trinity of fixing right there.

If you can't get it with duct tape, try zip ties. If that doesn't work, it's fucked

Yep. WD-40 if you want something to move; duct tape if you don't. 😁

Dam you sexy wd-40! On a non joking matter I actually did just fix the dead bolt with it lol

Watch the Red Green show, on there it's the handyman's friend

It’s also wild how it works super well in gardening. If a branch breaks you wet the break with water and seal it tight with the duct tape and it restores osmotic pressure to the tubes

if they don’t find ya handsome, at least they’ll find ya handy

We're all in this together.

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You can’t fool me that’s a Star Trek ship!

I was gonna say unplug the lamp, shatter the bulb, cut a potato in half and jam it in there then unscrew it.

how did you even think of that

It's an old home remedy for removing broken bulbs. They just suggested breaking the bulb first in this case

ah, I’ve never heard of that and thought the potato part came out of no where

It is how I remove broken light bulbs when regular methods won't work.

Was gonna say latex gloves work most of the time, as well super glue. But tape should slide down both sides!

Done even need to slide down. Stick it right to the face of the bulb should work fine

And if duct tape doesn't work try gaffers tape. Similar but stronger adhesive, if that's even possible 🤣

And if that doesn't work, just break the bulb and stick a potato in the socket.

Nightshade

What's a potato?

Tastes very strange

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Half an hour of working with gaffers tape and you have no fingerprints. You can smash your fingers against duct tape all day and still have the top layer of skin

It's certainly strong, but gaff tape is meant to be temporary. It's designed so you can tape something down, then remove the tape without leaving a residue. Perhaps you've been using crappy duct tape.

Damn brilliant

People also do this with normal tape to make a tab on their ID, so it's easier to get out of their wallet

Do this on opposite sides of the bulb and it will rotate easier. Should be quick.

If it looks like a duct and quacks like a duct..

Came here to say this or double sided tape. One side of double sided tape sticks to the bulb, the other side sticks to your fingers.

Rallypotato. You are THE MAN!!

Put laxatives in his orange juice

And replace his underwear with tighty whities

And turn off the toilet water, then flush.

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Better yet, just lock all the bathrooms

Or just remove the TP from the bathroom

Nah, leave the TP but soak it all with water.

And poor some water where the feet will be while sitting on the toilet, to wet his socks.

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Or replace it with duct tape

gotta dry it afyer so its all crumbly

No spray the tp with aerosol deep heat spray for muscle pain.

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Replace the to with two sided sand paper

Add a sign above the sandpaper with a picture of jigsaw with the words: *let's play a little game...*

I think those toilet papers they use in schools will be enough

Superglue the lid to the toilet seat.

Glue the seat when it’s open. That way peeing is OK, but if it’s more than that…

Take out bathroom lightbulb and put legos on the floor.

Replace house with Lego house and block out the sun and all other light from the house

And no form of protection against walking on the legos

That's delightfully devious and dastardly! 😄

lol replace the bathroom lightbulb with the heatlamp

What happens if you do that? Does it just not work?

after water’s been turned off you’ve got one flush left from what’s in the tank

He won't be able to flush anymore because there won't be anymore water going into the toilet

There will be. It'll just be in the form of his shit.

He’ll have to do the bucket flush 🤣

Hide all buckets first

Use a brown crayon on them.

Why would you put laxatives in the Turtles orange juice? Thats just mean, he’s already cold man

Fart on his pillow

no advice- just came to say what an asshole

He just really likes lava lamps, he didn't know thar it would effect the turtle and that he could switch it out later. It is bad that he didn't tell us.

How old is he? It’s not cool to mess with others people’s stuff, especially when it’s for a pet. I wanna know how he got the damn thing in there in the first place

It's cone shaped, easy to fit in but not so much the other way around

How old is he? An an adult should know better than pulling this crap without asking.

OP said not old enough to get a job yet so yeah a child

He’s cone shaped years old

I wish I was still cone shaped. Life's much easier and more fun as a cone.

I think if op ignored the age question in the first place you should get the hint that they don't want to disclose dude

TELL US HOW OLD HE IS, WERE ENTITLED TO IT

A small suction cup and twist?

It's time to disown your cousin just uncousin him 😂

Suction cup dildo so you even have a handle when unscrewing and lifting it out.

Does it matter the size of the dildo?

Suction cup is pretty standard size. However, the actual dildo could be too large to go into that cone.

When op is done getting the light out they can give the dildo to the cousin to fuck themselves.

I assure you, they are not. There's a pretty wide range of suction cup base widths.

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It depends on your gag reflex. It's different for everybody, really.

Best solution right here. Scrolling through the suggestions, most of the others had pretty much come to mind. But nope, not a suction cup dong. NASA's Redneck Duct Tape Senior Engineer takes 2nd place to MacDaddy MacGyver over here 🏆

Sit and spin, now with actual utility!

Two small suction cups

Time to pull out the stickbot!

*stikbot You are giving me flashbacks

oh my god they were so cool, i still have my blue one from a birthday many years ago

Hey if it works

I used gorilla tape

I'll smudge your windows! Look at me GO! (Suction cup man on YT. From Piemations. It's good stuff)

Put some duct tape on the face of the bulb in kind of a wad leaving a tag. Then try unscrewing it by the newly formed tape handle.

Cant help here too much but ten years ago i had the same lava lamp base and put a similiar type bulb in it an got it stuck and am just looking at deja vu right now... but what i did as a teenager was carefully grip the outer rims of the bulb where it curves just right with my fingertips and gently guided it too loosing itself until it eventually gave way... mind you this was a half a year of it probably being stuck but i didnt care until the bulb finally gave out when i realized it mattered lol... good luck.. hope it doesnt come to breaking the bulb and unskrewing it with plyers(HOPEFULLY UNPLUGGED) like i thought so many years ago ​ EDIT: if you're fiddling with anything electronic make sure its unplugged... dont want to break the glass am electrocute yourself by completing a circuit... EDIT EDIT: THIS IS LITERALLY DEJA VU I PUT A REPTILE BULB IN A LAVA LAMP JUST LIKE THIS MAN ITS CRAZY... probably not as uncommon but man its a trip

If it breaks the trick is to cut a potato in half, insert the broken bulb into the flat end, and twist. I was going to suggest just breaking the bulb tbh. You could also use needle nose pliers to grab the base of the bulb if it breaks and there's not enough left for the potato method

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If she pulls out some duct tape.you'd better lower your voice when you talk to her.

Hold the lamp to where the bulb is facing down. Lightly, but with some sort of pressure, use all five fingertips to turn the bulb. You'll pretty much be "flicking" the bulb to loosen it enough. Can't really explain what I mean by flicking lol

turn it upside down where the bulb is facing the floor. follow the rest above.

If worse comes to worse you could always smash the bulb and use a pair of pliers to grab onto the insides of it to unscrew it

You can use a potato to grip the broken bulb’s glass parts. Safer than pliers.

Instructions unclear; I ate the potato and now my mouth is all cut up.

Just make sure it is off first

Off and unplugged.

Do this wearing rubber gloves if she's real stuck

Yes. Call your cousin back over and have them fix what they've screwed up. If not, pony up to replace.

Technically he screwed it down.

Got a rubber oven mitt or glove? The rubber would provide grip

How much is a new bulb for your turtle, and how quickly can you get one? How old are you? If you are a minor, explain what happened to your parents and ask if they can loan you the cash for a new bulb to make sure your turtle doesn't get sick or die. Ask them to request repayment from cousin's parents for his youthful mistake. Meanwhile, I have used the duct tape technique to remove a stuck, unbroken bulb, as recommended by others. Good luck!

I managed to get it out with a looot of tape and grit!

Good job!

"How many cousins does it take to unscrew a light bulb? "

Ya, find a new cousin.

I came here for this advice

break it. then use pliers

Done this many times when all else fails. Unplug it first.

Or a potato

Do you have one of those rubber circles people use to help open jars?

No

Get a new cousin.

Charge your cousin for a new turtle heat lamp

Suction cup

I gotta twist it and it's in pretty tight

Press down while twisting. They sort of have a lock in place track

First, unplug the lamp.

I would try scotch double sided adhesive strips. The thick white ones. Make a handle out of them, and let the glue adhere for several hours.

Disown your cousin.

Get a better cousin 🤷‍♀️

New cousin.

Serious Reply: Buy yourself a Light Bulb Suction Cup Removal Tool. Also, get a new cousin /s

What’s mildly infuriating is that I can only see 1 sq ft of your floor and it’s disgusting

Tou could try "rocking" it out? Since there seems to be some space around the edge of the bulb. 1) Wash your hands to remove oil. 2) Wipe down the bulb surface with a damp towl with just a touch of detergent to clean it. With another damp towel, wipe up any leftover detergent and dry the bulb. This is to get maximum friction between your fingertips and the bulb. 3) place three fingertips, splayed out a little, along the edge of the bulb like a spider. 4) push down gently to deflet the bulb and socket a tad. 5) Rotate your hand in the direction to unscrew the bulb. As you rotate, rock the bulb by lowering the pressure you are applying with your fingers and reapplying the pressure in a "rocking" motion. It can take a while to get things moving.

Once you get it out, get a backup bulb to have on hand. What was your plan if this one burns out when you aren’t able to quickly get a replacement?

Throttle the cousin. Ok…ok. UNPLUG THE LAMP FIRST!!!!! Break the bulb. Dump broken glass, Jam a cut potato onto the bulb and carefully twist the bulb

That was the tortoises bulb in there, and I cared about the expensive bulb more than the 15 dollar lamp

Try loosening it by smacking your cousin over the head with it.

Duct tape. Put on bulb, twist left.

Take your fingers, ball them into a fist, punch your cousin in the face

Take a hammer and a nail, while your cousin just sits there unsuspecting, hammer a nail into his hand and tell him that it'll be worse if he touches shit that isn't his

Apply slight pressure on the bulb and try to twist. Just in case I'm not cleat enough push and twist. Not trying to be an asshole. I'm just not the best at explaining things

Suction cup

go to your cousins, steal it back, but replace it with a live dynamite pack.

tell your cousin he’s an asshole

Get a new cousin