Flash bulbs.

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The thing in the middle is what you are looking for. It will adapt an M5 bulb to a socket for #5 bulb.
 

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The adapter I have (shown in the photo) only has a GE logo on it but no further markings.
 

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Anyone have an idea if there is a chance that flashbulbs will be set off by the new airport scanners?
 

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Anyone have an idea if there is a chance that flashbulbs will be set off by the new airport scanners?

Very unlikely.
 

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They're unlikely to be set off by the scanners but can go off if accidentally dropped, which I can only imagine would be a very tense scene at the security gate.
 

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They're unlikely to be set off by the scanners but can go off if accidentally dropped, which I can only imagine would be a very tense scene at the security gate.

One could get a louder pop by stomping on a flash bulb.
 

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I have heard if you throw one in front of a microwave antenna it will go off. I don’t recommend doing this.
 

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I got a lot originally packaged and this was done in inside aluminum laminated corrugated cardboard. To my understanding this only could be done to avoid static charges. But I cannot imagine a situation that the box could practically be charged.
To me longtime this is a major photographic enigma.

(Back then there were no mircowave ovens in Germany, and I got no idea how such box could end up there.)
 

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They're unlikely to be set off by the scanners but can go off if accidentally dropped.

First time I hear that. But if so the mechanism would be related to that at the Magicbulb.
 

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First time I hear that. But if so the mechanism would be related to that at the Magicbulb.
I have to confess to having entertained myself a bit as a child tossing them on a concrete floor to see them flash, when my parents indulged my wasting them since the days of flashbulbs were over with anyway.
 
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