I had to come back and put a comment after trying this. I stumbled upon this video after putting all my strength to turn open the oven bulb cover. The packaging tape idea explained in the video worked like a charm. I dint have to warm up the oven though. Thanks a lot for this tip!
Thank you!! I just removed it in under 5 mins, after watching your video. After 2 years, I finally have a oven light. Grateful for your video. My husband won't believe it.
I've literally never had a problem opening a jar, but the light cover in my Samsung was giving me hell. Strap wrench doesn't fit in my gas oven due to a line to the broiler. I used heat + rubber coated gardening gloves to finally get purchase. Thank you!
Thank you oh wise one! It's worked like a charm 1st time. I did Google how to remove it and it came up I needed a special tool, but spotted your video and I'm seriously impressed. 👏 thank you!!!
Thank You Thank You, I couldn't believe how quick it worked and just like you instructed. I had Black Gorilla tape and tore from the roll a 1'wide strip for about 15"s off the roll. Secured the taped to the glass cover starting from about 4:00 and then counter clockwise over the top of glass to 9:00 and pulled straight down. It gave way almost immediately and at first I thought the tape must of tore but to my delightful surprise the glass cover was loose and now easily removed. I tried for days on-and-off, heat, wd40, gripper gloves, oil filter removal tools, to no avail. And then this!!! 1-2-3 done!!!!
Aloha Lyle. . . and our favorite Latin lurker, et al., I've struggled with this cover nonsense for the last 90 days or so... I'm giving your solution a try this evening... * * * You forgot to mention: "You can thank me later..." [ a good closing for any DIY video venture... (wink) ] * * * With that, I am thanking you now for your effort... very well done for your first endeavor and very helpful for those of us who are not so DIY inclined... (wink) * * * Until that time. . .
I think the tape idea with heat would work in most cases. I did try the tape but used a heat gun to heat just bulb cover so I wouldn't be getting into a 200 degree cubicle. After all of that I was about to give up but I remembered having left over various band-clamps from my by-gone years as a contractor. I put one of those on the cover and tightened it as much as I dared to then used a rubber mallet and the hex driver still on the nut and kept gently tapping it and to my surprise it worked. I don't think I would have thought of this though without building on your idea. So thanks Lyle!
If this is your first video, you're off to a good start. I'm a pretty decent DIYer and usually can figure things out on my own, but I was stumped on this doing it without buying a tool. Bought a new oven a couple months ago and the bulb already burned out. Could not get that cover off for the life of me. Used duct tape and your method and had it off in 20 seconds. Thanks!
You are a LEGEND!!…..our oven had two lights....we broke the first glass trying to get it off before finding you video. Using your trick the other one came off. Thanks heapS!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I was struggling to get that damn thing out, but it really helped to grab my roommate so she could twist while I pulled it with the packing tape!
That was SOOOOOOO Cool the way you made this video! Both entertaining and informative. Very grateful for your help. I was also laughing because you understood our plight! Those :pre-schooler" oven designers should be ashamed of themselves. Cheers!
Thank you Lyle. Much frustration with searching internet for my particular oven manual. Waste of time. Thankfully came across your video very quickly and voila! worked a treat. We have strong fibreglass sticky tape which was easy, otherwise normal will do but maybe have to double it. Cheers!
OMG. I can’t believe that actually worked! I’ve been trying everything. I’m just wondering whether you recommend putting any lubricant on the threads when I reinstall the cover. I guess it doesn’t matter. I’ll just get out the duct tape again next time. Thanks for your help!
Thanks Lyle. I watched this after struggling for a while and eventually figuring out my own method. So sorry but too late to try your method.. But this worked for me. I got a piece (approx 10 inches) of 14/2 Romex. I wrapped it once around the lamp cover then twisted the ends of the Romex in a spiral as tight as I could get them. (Moderate finger strength needed). As you twist the ends together the loop around the lamp cover tightens. This gives you something to grab on to - both the wire around the bulb and the twisted ends. And the Romex has good grip. Then just turn counter clockwise. First try, no effort and it worked.
Fantastic - I have been trying for hours to get this off - got out the duck tape - removed after less than 3 minutes - thank you so so much! Will pass this along - :-)
Shop advised to use water pump pliers but tho tried v v hard for v long time couldn’t budge it. So followed your advice & stuck piece of duct tape round & pulled sharply in anti clockwise direction. Viola! Undone in seconds. Yay!
This suggestion didn’t work for me at all. The duct tape snapped as soon as I pulled on it. I even bought the plastic Neff “oven light remover” tool, which also just pops off. In the end I used an old bicycle inner tube for grip and then wrapped a leather belt around it as an improvised strap wrench. A few seconds of that and it twisted right off.
$7.99 for the wrench is a bargain - especially since that's for two of them, shipped and sold by Amazon. And now I'll have them for whatever else you might need to open, even jars. This tip is a great way if you're in a hurry and don't want to wait a couple days for Prime so it's worth watching but I'll wait to get mine off until Wednesday (it's Monday now) when the wrenches arrive. Also, you already loosened yours so it's not exactly clear if the first one was more difficult or not. I assume that it worked mostly as well and that your tip is a great one. It's a great workaround, potentially for other spinning needs as well, for when you don't have the tool. Perhaps an even better lesson from your video is that you demonstrate thinking outside of the box. You remind me of my grandfather who could solve any problem and fix anything.
Worked perfectly. The only change i have made is that instead of one i used two layers of tape in order to make it stronger because with just one layer it broke.
YAYY THANK YOU IVE BEEN WATCHING VIDEOS FOR 2 DAYS BCUZ I COULDNT GET THAT SUCKER TO BUDGE AND I HEARD A CRUNCHING SOUND WHEN I PUT MY MUSCLES INTO IT. MY WALL OVEN IS HARD WIRED INTO THIS OLD HOUSE SHOULD I GO TO MY BREAKER MY ELECTRICAL PANEL AND SHUT DOWN ELECTRICITY TO THE OVEN COMPLETELY BEFORE I TOUCH THAT BULB ?
The heating up of the oven to 200 degrees is key. I let it cool for about 15-20 minutes but the glass bulb covers were still too hot for the tape. So I used a rubber jar opener which looks like a coaster. Presto! That worked perfectly!
I had to come back and put a comment after trying this. I stumbled upon this video after putting all my strength to turn open the oven bulb cover. The packaging tape idea explained in the video worked like a charm. I dint have to warm up the oven though. Thanks a lot for this tip!
Successfully followed your tape method without even warming up the oven! Thank you!
You are a lifesaver. Thanks a million for the great advice. No light for 6 months and now we are all sorted because of you. THANK YOU !!!
What do you know!! This trick worked for me!!! Yay! I feel so accomplished now having a working oven light!!
Amazing. After over a year with no lights I had these off in less than two minutes with your method. Boss man
Thank you!! I just removed it in under 5 mins, after watching your video. After 2 years, I finally have a oven light. Grateful for your video. My husband won't believe it.
i just did this and it came off straight away, after a week of trying WD40 on my hotpoint oven! THANKYOU!!!
I have had so many strong men to try to take it off with no luck.I am going to try your way .Thank you
I've literally never had a problem opening a jar, but the light cover in my Samsung was giving me hell. Strap wrench doesn't fit in my gas oven due to a line to the broiler. I used heat + rubber coated gardening gloves to finally get purchase.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this....just spent over an hour trying to get the cover off, I was in tears.Tried your method,worked like a charm.
Thank you oh wise one! It's worked like a charm 1st time. I did Google how to remove it and it came up I needed a special tool, but spotted your video and I'm seriously impressed. 👏 thank you!!!
After several frustrating tries I turned to TH-cam and found your video. Thanks man !
This actually helped. Thank you sir
Oh my word! Thank you! As a single girl that lives alone I had no choice but to get this sucker off by myself. This worked like a charm!
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Thank you, sir. RESPECT!
I actually did not even have to warm the oven. This took about five seconds.
Awesome trick, I struggled for 15 mins before finding your video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank You Thank You, I couldn't believe how quick it worked and just like you instructed. I had Black Gorilla tape and tore from the roll a 1'wide strip for about 15"s off the roll. Secured the taped to the glass cover starting from about 4:00 and then counter clockwise over the top of glass to 9:00 and pulled straight down. It gave way almost immediately and at first I thought the tape must of tore but to my delightful surprise the glass cover was loose and now easily removed. I tried for days on-and-off, heat, wd40, gripper gloves, oil filter removal tools, to no avail. And then this!!! 1-2-3 done!!!!
Cheers lyle, it worked it was stuck solid, Let there be light.
Aloha Lyle. . . and our favorite Latin lurker, et al.,
I've struggled with this cover nonsense for the last 90 days or so...
I'm giving your solution a try this evening...
* * *
You forgot to mention: "You can thank me later..." [ a good closing for any DIY video venture... (wink) ]
* * *
With that, I am thanking you now for your effort... very well done for your first endeavor and very helpful for those of us who are not so DIY inclined... (wink)
* * *
Until that time. . .
THANK YOU !!! worked first time after all other methods failed. Finally after months, we can now see what's in the oven !
I think the tape idea with heat would work in most cases. I did try the tape but used a heat gun to heat just bulb cover so I wouldn't be getting into a 200 degree cubicle. After all of that I was about to give up but I remembered having left over various band-clamps from my by-gone years as a contractor. I put one of those on the cover and tightened it as much as I dared to then used a rubber mallet and the hex driver still on the nut and kept gently tapping it and to my surprise it worked. I don't think I would have thought of this though without building on your idea. So thanks Lyle!
If this is your first video, you're off to a good start. I'm a pretty decent DIYer and usually can figure things out on my own, but I was stumped on this doing it without buying a tool. Bought a new oven a couple months ago and the bulb already burned out. Could not get that cover off for the life of me. Used duct tape and your method and had it off in 20 seconds.
Thanks!
Struggled with this for an hour before I found this video and it worked!! Thanks
Omg that was Brilliant💡
it took three seconds. Thank you for taking the time online to help others
Good job, bro. Don't let 'em stomp on your dreams, champ. It is very important;)
Dude! Awesome DIY! Thank you so much. Next time you're in town I owe you a few beers :)
You did a great job on this video…thanks for the simplest solution I’ve seen.
Thanks for the helpful tip and taking time to share it!
You are a saint! I’ve been trying to get that sucker off for a month, came off easy with your method, thanks 😊
Thank you so much. Worked perfectly. My mother-in-law thinks I'm a genius.
After 2 hours of trying. Thanks bro!! That just worked perfectly.
Easy and simple
You are a LEGEND!!…..our oven had two lights....we broke the first glass trying to get it off before finding you video. Using your trick the other one came off. Thanks heapS!
Thank you so much. I have been struggling with that lamp housing for months!!! It was not easy
Thank you so much!!!!! It works!!!!! You are a GENIUS!
This is what TH-cam is for. Sport tape is what did it for me! (Although a little tad of residue left)
Cheers mate!
I just noticed that not only was this your first video, as you mentioned, it's your only video. I hope video #2 is as valuable when you get it done.
You a life saver. I was about to break the the darn thing off.
You’re a legend! It worked.
Been trying for days! Glad I'm not going crazy. Well done, Lyle. Thank you!
Heat did it - I'm another thankful participant in your oven light cover removal technique; way to go...!
Hey. How long did you let your ovenheat?
Bravo Lyle. I actually thought this idea was the least probable of the 3 I youtubed, but low and behold, your idea killed it. Thanks!
Thank you! The heat did the trick -- didn't even need the tape. Fantastic video!
Wow - worked like a charm. Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I was struggling to get that damn thing out, but it really helped to grab my roommate so she could twist while I pulled it with the packing tape!
Great job n tutorial! Appreciate it. Thank you! Great idea too. 👍👍
This was an awesome and simple trick, instead of buying some special tool to use every other year!
Thanks!
um....this actually worked...wow thank YOU!
I just watched 6 different videos on how to change the bulb… I wasn’t strong enough ..so I used a oil filter wrench ..worked perfect …
Didn't even need to heat it up first! Just having the additional leverage did the trick!
To my surprise, it worked like a charm the first time I tried it. Thank you, thank you for making this video.
Great first video! This was exactly the fix I needed.
That was SOOOOOOO Cool the way you made this video! Both entertaining and informative. Very grateful for your help. I was also laughing because you understood our plight! Those :pre-schooler" oven designers should be ashamed of themselves. Cheers!
You my friend, are so brilliant!! 🎉
Way to go with your first youtube video.
This was probably the most useful video I ever watched on youtube. That worked great. Thank you!
Thank You so much I've fight with this bulb for hours. It's worked in less then 1 min after heat oven. Thank You so Much :)
Terrific worked first time ,many thanks
Like x100000 this video was the most helpful out of all of them! THANK YOU!!!!!
You sir are a genius! I only wish I had viewed your video before I tried spraying the bulb cover with WD-40 to loosen the damn thing! #stinkystove
Thank you Lyle. Much frustration with searching internet for my particular oven manual. Waste of time. Thankfully came across your video very quickly and voila! worked a treat. We have strong fibreglass sticky tape which was easy, otherwise normal will do but maybe have to double it. Cheers!
Kool, I'll try it now! Thanks
Sheer genius! Thank you
OMG. I can’t believe that actually worked! I’ve been trying everything. I’m just wondering whether you recommend putting any lubricant on the threads when I reinstall the cover. I guess it doesn’t matter. I’ll just get out the duct tape again next time. Thanks for your help!
Thank you very much for your help. I didn't need the sticky tape in the end, just a warmed up oven and gloves to get a better grip worked. :)
Thank you! It WORKED ‼️
Neat. Using tape as a wrench and nice tip to warm oven up before hand. thanks!
You, sir, are a genius! Thanks a million!
Brilliant!! Thank you so much
Thanks Lyle. I watched this after struggling for a while and eventually figuring out my own method. So sorry but too late to try your method.. But this worked for me. I got a piece (approx 10 inches) of 14/2 Romex. I wrapped it once around the lamp cover then twisted the ends of the Romex in a spiral as tight as I could get them. (Moderate finger strength needed). As you twist the ends together the loop around the lamp cover tightens. This gives you something to grab on to - both the wire around the bulb and the twisted ends. And the Romex has good grip. Then just turn counter clockwise. First try, no effort and it worked.
OMG. It worked! Thank you.
Fantastic - I have been trying for hours to get this off - got out the duck tape - removed after less than 3 minutes - thank you so so much! Will pass this along - :-)
Excellent!!!! Thank you so much for your video I have tried all kinds and they dont even work. Thanks so much!!!
You're the man, worked like a charm, Thanks!
Thank you for your video! I have literally tried everything and just done your duct tape idea and it helped it come straight off! Thank you!
You sir, are a legend! Worked perfectly.
Shop advised to use water pump pliers but tho tried v v hard for v long time couldn’t budge it. So followed your advice & stuck piece of duct tape round & pulled sharply in anti clockwise direction. Viola! Undone in seconds. Yay!
Hi, good Job! I used your advice after trying several time as per the manual but unsuccessfully. Thanks again
Great tip! Works great
Worked! Thankyou so much 😁
Thank you Lyle, it worked. I used some Duct tape with a little tug and turn and boom it unscrewed!!
thanks man - you saved me a few £s
This suggestion didn’t work for me at all. The duct tape snapped as soon as I pulled on it. I even bought the plastic Neff “oven light remover” tool, which also just pops off.
In the end I used an old bicycle inner tube for grip and then wrapped a leather belt around it as an improvised strap wrench. A few seconds of that and it twisted right off.
Worked like charm. Thank you, Sir.
Great video! Thanks to your video, I got the cover off easily, but unfortunately, the bulb had separated from the base. Oh well.
It worked!! Thank you!!
Legend it worked perfectly
$7.99 for the wrench is a bargain - especially since that's for two of them, shipped and sold by Amazon. And now I'll have them for whatever else you might need to open, even jars. This tip is a great way if you're in a hurry and don't want to wait a couple days for Prime so it's worth watching but I'll wait to get mine off until Wednesday (it's Monday now) when the wrenches arrive.
Also, you already loosened yours so it's not exactly clear if the first one was more difficult or not. I assume that it worked mostly as well and that your tip is a great one. It's a great workaround, potentially for other spinning needs as well, for when you don't have the tool.
Perhaps an even better lesson from your video is that you demonstrate thinking outside of the box. You remind me of my grandfather who could solve any problem and fix anything.
It really worked..
Thank you
Worked perfectly. The only change i have made is that instead of one i used two layers of tape in order to make it stronger because with just one layer it broke.
Thanks, worked great.
It works! I took it off! Thank you so much!
It worked! Thanks, Lyle. I was about to get my neighbor to come over and do it. Very helpful!
Great idea it worked for me. Thank you so much
Great. This finally worked for me. Thx
Works, thanks alot!!!!
Magical - it worked for me. Thanks for sharing :)
YAYY THANK YOU IVE BEEN WATCHING VIDEOS FOR 2 DAYS BCUZ I COULDNT GET THAT SUCKER TO BUDGE AND I HEARD A CRUNCHING SOUND WHEN I PUT MY MUSCLES INTO IT. MY WALL OVEN IS HARD WIRED INTO THIS OLD HOUSE SHOULD I GO TO MY BREAKER MY ELECTRICAL PANEL AND SHUT DOWN ELECTRICITY TO THE OVEN COMPLETELY BEFORE I TOUCH THAT BULB ?
THANK YOU! And great job on the first video!!
The heating up of the oven to 200 degrees is key. I let it cool for about 15-20 minutes but the glass bulb covers were still too hot for the tape. So I used a rubber jar opener which looks like a coaster. Presto! That worked perfectly!
My oven light cover has a wire over it and the cover is pressure fitted. No screwing. Push the wire to one side cover falls out.Easy peasy.
Thank you so much.