We seem to have a lot of lights in our house that take these bulbs, they are the ones with 2 prongs of bent wire, but they are a real pain. When they blow the replacements often fail to work regardless of price and the wire contacts often break off. Any sparks out there who have any ideas on how to sort this problem?

Don’t have an answer but can say that all the ones we’ve used (in our kitchen) really don’t last long at all. They’re pretty shit all in all.

I assume you know not to touch the capsule with bare skin???…

Other than that, it just takes a bit of a jiggle to get the lampholder to open up – think yourself lucky, normally they go loose!