This was so helpful! I realized I actually just had the wrong kind of bulb and not a broken lamp! Thanks for the great explanation of the different switches.
Thank you, you made this very easy to follow. Because your instructions were clear and concise I had the confidence to fix my lamp switch!! Thank you again.
Ah, we're on the same page. I always take a picture of everything before I start working on it. I have so many projects/ restorations going at once, some that span over months, even years. Those pictures are worth more than gold. Also, thanks, never dabbled in lamps before, but I needed some know how for one I got.
This is lovely, but it seems my Target brand lamp was designed to be impossible to repair - I had to cut the wires free and they seem impossible to strip 😭
What about lamp sockets that don’t have the screws for the wires to connect to? I had to do half turns for my lamp to turn on (it’s a three way) and now it won’t do anything (yes, tried multiple new and knowingly working bulbs)
Not as easy as it looks. What do you do when there are no screws holding the wires? My light-thing-piece has the wires going into the bottom part of that piece. I tried pulling them out but they were really stuck in there. I have to buy a new lamp.
@KARE11 Hello - looking for some help. What do I do if the screws on either side of the old socket aren't visible? The two wires feed directly into the black plastic casing. Thank you
It was your choice, but now thanks to the Biden administration's onerous ban on incandescents and halogens, you won't have a choice anymore. Repeal the ban!
I have these floor lamps from hell. The light socket is screwed into a rod that screws into the sectional pole of the base. I purchased new sockets however can't for the life of me remove the old socket. I have pics.
i have a floor lamp that looks like its an indoor outdor type lamp post...the on / off switch is a button of some sort on the pole...it wont work...can you show or tell how to figure out what i need to buy to replace it?
Very disappointed to learn that the lamp I bought has been wired in a way to prevent the socket from being unhooked from the wire. Why would I have a bedroom lamp without a pull chain? Manufacturers should be required to allow easy work with interchangeable parts like this, otherwise, we're more likely to cause bigger issues, like fires, and unnecessarily adding to junk piling up in our environment.
hi from australia, i have a lamp made by "hanimex" i'm an 80s baby and assumed its from the 80s but apparently its from the 70s it takes a fluorescent tube, if it doesn't work i have to grab the tube and twist it and hope it turns back on. My question is can you get that lamp or a similar TYPE of lamp (i.e with the tube) and explain how the connectors work that way i can take it apart and try to fix it without always twisting it
This would have been a much better video had you taken the time to explain the difference between the positive and negative wires before attaching the new switch. Not all lamps are wired like outlets. Some wires are locked into the switch and have to be cut in order to remove. The one I am dealing with doesn't say + or -, so I came to this vid thinking I would have to +'s and -'s explained. But instead I got to learn how to fix a lame that likely had already been repaired in the past.😒
