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Originally Posted by infernalis
Sadly, even Phillips lighting (a Dutch company) obtains the glass from Asia.
I used to be a "fire setter" (calibration of the torches that fuse the glass) and I can honestly say that when the company got their glass from Corning, the bulbs were far sturdier.
Once the import glass came in, the glass was more fragile and had a lower quartz content, so the bulbs would occasionally be brittle and fall apart in the machines.
Compounding insult to injury, the finished product would sometimes explode in the socket during seasoning (Initial burn in)
The company lost a lot of vendor orders including a contract with home depot to carry the Phillips lamps, because the factory was producing rubbish.
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Gotta love the Asians making stuff cheaply and pricey at the same time right? If it ain't dangerous in one way they can make it dangerous if 50 other ways you wouldn't have thought of.
No real insult meant BTW.
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