Rewire Swing Arm Floor Lamp
The socket was no longer working and they wanted it fixed.
Rewire swing arm floor lamp. Rewiring a bridge arm floor lamp socket and cord a customer brought in this bridge arm floor lamp the other day and asked for it to be repaired. Keep it loose so it can be adjusted until the end of the project. Antique swing arm floor lamp. Taking the time to rewire an old floor lamp is easier than it may sound.
Once it is unplugged take the lamp to a hardware store to determine what type of cord and plug will suit it best. Antique floor lamp swing arm floor lamps tripod lamp. As it has shorted twice the short must be visible where is it failing. Is the wire pinching at one of the joints.
How to properly rewire a swing arm lamp. Can you post a photo of the shorted area. What are you using for wire. If the lamp particularly floor lamps still has the old cord cut off the plug on the old cord and splice tape the new cord to the old cord together.
Electrical cord may be flat or round. Is it shorting in the exact same place. Antique floor lamp swing arm floor lamps tripod lamp. Don t put so much tape that it won t fit through the existing hole then pull the cord all the way through the lamp until the new cord is at the top remove the old cord easiest way i.
Includes information on newer lamps. A round cord will require a two prong round cord plug. Cal lighting 59 in antique brass swing arm metal floor lamp bo. A flat cord will take a clamp style flat cord plug.
We tie a loose knot in the base. With a few simple steps you can breathe new life into your old lamp. You may have a favorite vintage floor lamp and cannot bare to part with it but it doesn t work anymore. If it takes a year or two to short out with the information provided there.
The new gold cord is placed in the lamp base. The old cord is pulled completely out of the swivel arm and through the lamp body and floor lamp base. We identify this as a bridge arm floor lamp from the top piece being a bridge arm. Antique swing arm floor lamp bitdigest design.
A detailed instruction guide on the assembly of item 41883 swing arm floor lamp from sturbridge yankee workshop.