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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…
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What you do not want: the wrench rips the corners off the head before loosening the thread.
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Then I mixed up a batch of Bondo auto-body repair epoxy, buttered up the end of the heating element, and gooshed it into the socket.
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They haven’t seen fit to correct the holes in the top cover in the last seven or eight years: “Made with pride in the USA”, indeed.
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With any luck, you won’t have that much sediment and the drainage will clear after only a few iterations.
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It’s definitely not Duracell’s fault: the cell had a best-used-by date in 1997.
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The general notion is that one can put the current crop of ultrabright 5 mm LEDs to good use.
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The trick is to just drill a hole in the top of the desk and poke the end of the rod into it.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 