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Flash bulbs.

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

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

Says who?