I'm sure you've heard this a million times over, but you are an extremely skilled electrician & craftsman!! A wonderful teacher to boot! Love your videos 🤗
I bought an antique bridge arm lamp and was considering rewiring it myself. After watching your video I am thinking I will take it to the local lighting shop that's been around forever. I see there's a lot more to it than I thought. I enjoyed your video. I admire how conscientious you are in your work. Details matter and make the difference between excellent work and just pretty good. Keep making videos. Knowledge and experience are irreplaceable. Thank you.
Thank you very much. You are fortunate to have an experienced lighting repair service in your area. It used to be common for hardware stores to have someone who would do simple rewiring for lamps. That is rare now. As with any skill, there are always details which make the work bfc easier and in the case of lighting, much safer.
Thank you. I've taken apart enough lamps which were DIY rewired to see practically every possible way to do it wrong. Solder and shrink wrap insure a long lasting safe connection.
The plug on this lamp is known to electricians in the field as open front plugs, in accordance with the NEC these have been illegal for many years now because the cardboard insulator assuming it was installed would easily fall off and strands of wire posed a risk of short circuit and shock hazards particularly with metal faceplate receptacles, incidentally they are still available from antique restoration vendors but are not UL listed and have a plastic insulator that's more difficult to snap in and remove. Modern plugs are known in the trade as dead front plugs and are much safer.
I have recently acquired a brass floor lamp that I estimate to be 90 years old. Can you recommend a service for a total restoration? I live in Virginia Beach, VA
I'm not familiar with Virginia Beach, but I recommend asking local antique dealers and interior designers. I do a lot of work for interior designers who find antique (sometimes junk) chandeliers for their clients. Most will know a reliable person.
I missed where you explain how you determined the age of this item. I certainly miss the days when one was able to enter a hardwarestore and specify beaded chain with acorn finials
The lamp in this video has a center pipe that has threads at both ends. The pole is kept tight by the nuts. Steel washers are needed to prevent the nuts from digging into the wood. In some wooden lamps, the pole and base have threads cut in the wood. It's common for the threads to break away and it won't tighten. There's a few ways to repair this. If there is still good contact between the pieces, wood glue will do. The pole and base must be supported in the right position until the glue sets.
