Metis Adrastea wrote:


>
> > 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 :)
>   
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I understand you fine.  That is the way I thought it *should* work - one 
wire to the threaded part, and one wire to the bottom of the bulb.  But 
since the screw on the terminal that connects to the threaded part 
doesn't seem to be made so that a wire can go on there, I thought 
perhaps I was wrong.  What I mean by that is that the other two screws 
both have indentations so that the wire can go in behind them and the 
screw tightened down and plenty of room for the socket to slide up into 
the sleeve of the "body" of the socket.  But if a wire is put on the 
screw connected to the threaded part, it just juts out, and cannot slide 
up.  I can force it, of course, but was always taught that if you have 
to force something, then you are doing something wrong.

So far as being a socket for a three-way bulb, I don't think it is.  
There is just the one contact at the bottom.  However, it may well be 
that it is not a regular socket, so I think that I need to go back to 
Home Depot and check (the package that it came it got thrown away before 
I realized I had a problem).  Also, the socket is marked "250V", which 
seems a little bit strange.

> > P.S.- In Europe we have 220VAC (that's more scary)
>
>   
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Twice as scary, to be exact.  :-)

Bill
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