🔌 Phenolic Medium Sockets for Creative Hobbyists Review

A few years ago my wife's friend found an old floor lamp in her attic and gave it to my wife as a gift. This was never the most useful as the base of the rosette was cracked and the compression ring for the glass lampshade was no longer attached. The glass lampshade was unsteadily balanced on a 5ft pole, which isn't great when there are pets or kids in the house. So the lamp, crammed into a closet or tucked into a corner, blocked by furniture, stayed where it was. Years later I ordered this…

The inner socket (the part that holds the lamp) wobbles in the outer case, mainly because there is no liner/cushion (that piece of hard material). ). , a thick paper-like tube usually found inside the cartridge assembly. Luckily I was able to use one of the discarded lightbulbs after making a custom cut to make it fit. Also, they do NOT fit the type of lampshade Target sells — the kind that has a low lampshade spider that sits right on top of the cartridge frame and doesn't use a harp. For one…

. However, this is not the fault of the replacement part; It took over four hours to disassemble the original switch, which was a cheap one-off assembly that was obviously never meant to be replaced (just force the customer to buy a new bulb!). So I was very happy to have a complete replacement assembly on hand. My intention changed from simply replacing the basic switch module (which required me to destroy the original in order to remove it) to replacing everything so I could wire it up. I…