*SSHOLE-ISTIC Repairs

Nuts and screws superglued shut... ANYTHING that's not supposed to be glued, glued.

I've started to actually hate many items that I first loved just because I had to work on them and try to fix some idiotic solution done by some loony person in the 80s and 90s.

I hate woodworking and having to repair anything related to metal... It's exhausting and makes me a very unhappy person.

 

Ouch! What is this about???
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Ask me about metal issues when you have them.

 

Yeah. Ouch my hands..

The whole thing is about THIS:

I'm experimenting and trying to find out if I could elevate the bulb-holder or whatever of this lamp and assemble it a bit differently (more like it is in the similar ones I've seen) Whatever, doesn't matter now. I will explain more about that some day maybe.

Someone added that plywood-wood-plywood monstrosity in the bottom of the lamp and I need remove it for several reasons.

The metal things (nuts???) aren't coming off and now I need to break it all apart with a screwdriver..

I'm kind of questioning my own sanity at the moment but that damn wood piece has bothered me since I bought this lamp!

 

Sure it's Super Glue? May be nail polish.
The 'antidote' for SG may loosen it.
Nail polish should just give up but there is nail polish remover.
If it's Loc-Tite it all depends upon what kind it is.
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Next option, drill around the nuts/bolts until the wood lifts out.
Then try turning them into the lamp not out, first.
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EDIT> They Look like brass bolts and they should fail before the steel nuts. You could try Liquid Wrench but that may not work here.
As those nuts dig into the brass it is probably building up shavings that are resisting the removal of the nuts.
This is also why you should turn them in, tighten them, first.

 

Spray the nuts with a penetrating oil like WD40 and give it time to work in. That might free them

 

Why don't you use a drill and pepper the wood with holes first then chisel it out?

 

I'd try WD40 first, too.

 

Wow! that would have been a project in itself, just fitting that in there! Wonder what problem generated such an elegant solution??

That flaky looking rim around the inside of the lower left corner does look like superglue - acetone should loosen it?

 

I've heard that somewhere before....

 

You think I own a drill? Think again!

I managed to get one of the three bolts out but the nut didn't come off: the bolt loosened at the other end.

 

Your's was more controlled I'd just go at it like a woodpecker.

 

LOL without some tools to work with I can imagine you've given yourself a real job.

 

How can you expect to do such things without a drill???????????

 

I don't expect to do this at all but somehow everything always turns out to be a project..

 

Having a battery drill around, with a variety of bits and screw driving options, will alleviate a lot of your stress.
You would've been done with this before you started.

 

So the wood thingy was what held the 'feet' of the lamp on place..

Now I'll have to find a new wooden thingy or I don't have a lamp, just pile of metal.

And I don't know if the rising-the-bulb scheme is going to work at all now.

Suggestions? What material to use for making the new thingy?

 

How about showing us the whole lamp so we can help you better at the top and bottom of your lamp?
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The 'bolts' are 'studs'. Providing their mounting, which is surely in the base casting, is not ruined, you can replace them with 'allthread' or bolts that are long enough to cut to length. These would probably be 'Carriage' bolts.
However.... There is a reason these were/are brass, if they are...
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Electrolysis could be an issue in replacing them with something else but if they were oiled or greased before setting them in place this should stop that from occurring.

 

I understood about 9% of what you just wrote.

It's the same lamp as "Throw some shade ideas" thread has

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/throw-some-shade-ideas.9240/


The bolts aren't really bolts, just 'allthread' or whatever.. I'm bad at this sort of terminology.

 

Looks like when the nuts were tightened down on the wood piece the brass "all thread" was long and then cut off leaving the threads damaged at the top of the nut leaving them impossible to turn off without the right tools. (6 point socket on a ratchet/breaker bar)

 

And of course it had to be plywood instead of a piece of hard wood so you can easily split it along the grain. Just gonna have to keep chipping away at it with whatever you have to get it out of there and actually see what them "bolts" are and how they are attached.