Maybe I should’ve done a web search to solve this problem. There seem to be lots of solutions posted. (Alas, I don’t have a potato handy). Well, here’s what I did…
So when I unscrewed the light bulb in the ceiling fixture of my study (officially the front “bedroom”), what my hand held after was just the glass part of the bulb, not the metal-base/screw-part. (I’ll confess that I don’t even know what that part of the bulb is called. Yes, I do need a remedial living-on-my-own-course. But I digress…) Left in the socket was the screw-part and a wire or two dangling out. I thought shutting of the light switch was probably a good idea.
I fumbled around for a good half-hour with a wrench, bending the remaining metal every which way, but not unscrewing it at all. I did persist, though, eventually getting the right grip with the wrench such that I could turn the bulb-part, and I eventually removed it.
I am hoping that this will be the first and last time I ever have to do this, since this was with an old-school bulb, one of the last ones I’ve replaced with a flourescent.
Oh, and I’m back in write-about-whatever-without-regard-to-relevance mode…
I’ve had that happen more times than I’d like. I usually turn off the power to the fixture from the circuit breaker box (I’m overcautious) and then use needle-nose pliers to unscrew the metal thingy. It works pretty well and goes as quickly as that sort of annoying, out-of-the-ordinary event _can_ go.