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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 15146, member: 56"]If you check the side of the lamp socket, it's probably stamped "Press Here". If you do that, the socket comes apart in two pieces. (Always takes some coaxing for me.) Then the metal jacket slips off the actual electrical connection and you just undo the wires at the bottom of the socket and pull the old wire back through the lamp. Feeding new wire through a straight conduit should not be a problem. Note how the old wire was split and stripped to make the connection, and do the same thing to the new wire. Attach the new wire to the socket and snap it back together. Plugs are easy to attach. If in doubt, have the sales person demonstrate. Or get a cheap, newer throwaway lamp at a TS or garage sale, strip the wire out of it, and use that. Then you only have to worry about the socket end. Doing that would give you some experience with taking the socket apart as well. Just make sure you get a long enough cord.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 15146, member: 56"]If you check the side of the lamp socket, it's probably stamped "Press Here". If you do that, the socket comes apart in two pieces. (Always takes some coaxing for me.) Then the metal jacket slips off the actual electrical connection and you just undo the wires at the bottom of the socket and pull the old wire back through the lamp. Feeding new wire through a straight conduit should not be a problem. Note how the old wire was split and stripped to make the connection, and do the same thing to the new wire. Attach the new wire to the socket and snap it back together. Plugs are easy to attach. If in doubt, have the sales person demonstrate. Or get a cheap, newer throwaway lamp at a TS or garage sale, strip the wire out of it, and use that. Then you only have to worry about the socket end. Doing that would give you some experience with taking the socket apart as well. Just make sure you get a long enough cord.[/QUOTE]
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