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On 1 May, 10:33, Robert Inder <rob...@deadspam.com> wrote:
them, not the bulbs. Unfortunately I cant remember what that holder
arrangement is called, but if you call your local electrical
wholesaler they should have one. The new one will be no more robust of
course - go easy on tightening that nut.
NT
usually its the forces generated when the nut's tightened that breaksI'm trying to repair an angle poise desk lamp. The actual bulb holder
has broken.
Inside the shade there is a metal bracket, with a roughly 1cm hole
in it. On the original lamp holder, the wires entered through a
threaded "tail" which pushed through this hole. Then there was a nut
that came down the wires and tightened onto the tail of the lamp
holder, thus clamping it to the bracket.
Unfortunately, it looks like the compact fluorescent bulb we've been
using has been too heavy for arrangement, and the threaded "tail" of
the lampholder has broken, leaving the bulb resting against the inside
of the metal shade. It works, but...
So, I'd like to get a replacement lamp holder. One that can holds a
normal 240V bulb, but can be clamped by its tail in to a 1cm mounting hole.
Only I'm not sure where to get such a thing, or even what I want to
ASK for --- what such a thing would be called.
I've seen "batten mounting" lamp holders, and the ones that I've seen
for pendant lights seem to be designed to clamp to a shade or similar
at the middle of the lampholder --- where the body is several
cemtimeters across.
Help?
Robert.
them, not the bulbs. Unfortunately I cant remember what that holder
arrangement is called, but if you call your local electrical
wholesaler they should have one. The new one will be no more robust of
course - go easy on tightening that nut.
NT