Hi Bill!

2006/2/15, Bill Kuncicky <kuncicky@gmail.com>:
> My wife has an old lamp that belonged to her grandmother, and is
> probably more than 70 years old.  She cherishes it.  Yesterday, the
> on-off switch in the socket broke, so I stopped by Home Depot and picked
> up a new socket.  This morning I took the lamp apart and replaced the
> socket.  The electric cord has two wires, as do most lamps.  The socket
> has three terminals at the bottom.  Two of them are connected through
> the switch.  Turn the switch on and these two are connected.  Turn the
> switch off and these two are not connected.  The third terminal goes to
> the side of the socket -- the part that has the threads on it for the
> light bulb to screw into.  The third terminal doesn't look like it is
> meant to have a wire connected to it, although there is a screw there.

One of the wires (let's call #1) goes directly to that third screw
(the one which goes to the threaded part of the bulb), and the other
wire (#2) goes to one of the screws in the switch. The last screw (the
one which connects or disconnects from cable #2) goes to the bottom of
the bulb, where it has some sort of "solder blob" or something (my
english is pretty freaky). Hope you understand me :)

P.S.- In Europe we have 220VAC (that's more scary)

Greets

Metis Adrastea
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