How to Replace a Damaged Lamp Socket

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Part of the video series: Carpentry & Home Improvement Skills

Summary: Replacing a damaged lamp socket involves taking each piece of the lamp apart and checking for damage or wear that could be causing the lamp not to work properly. Fix a damaged light socket by replacing worn or damaged parts with instruction from an experienced builder in this free video on home repair.

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By Robert Markey
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Robert Markey earned his B.S. in physics from MIT in 1969 and his M.S. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1982. Until 1980, his main focus was music,...read more

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on 12/7/2009 I'm sure Mr. Markey is skilled at what he does. howe3ver, I cannot say the same about the videographer. Not only does s/he completely lose sight of the operation at times, but it is shot from too far away to discern any meaningful detail. I came to this site to try to see how to separate the two halves of the fixture. Mr. Markey's says only, "You have to separate the two halves of this," without telling the viewer HOW, exactly, one is supposed to do this. And throughout his own efforts to separate them, the operation is completely obscured by his hands, so that the viewer sees nothing. The videographer makes no attempt to record anything visually helpful, but stands at a distance, so that I can't even see what kind of tool he's using to separate the halves (I think it's a flat-head screwdriver, but I can't be sure).

In other words, I'm sorry to say that this video was complete...

Video Transcript

"I'm Robert Markey and I've been fixing things for a long time and today we are going to replace a damaged lamp socket. The first thing you want to do is take the bulb out which we assume is good and whatever the lamp is like it is going to have one of these in it so with this one here we can take that off and take that off and you have to get down to the socket itself. You now have to separate the two halves of this which is not as easy as it looks. You have that off and you pull out the actual guts to the socket which is we are assuming no good, damaged, damaged goods. Take the wires off. So this is our problem so we now grab one that is good and reinstall it and set it back in here, put the bottom piece back on and put this back in here, put the bulb in, check it out to see if it works and we're good. Robert Markey and we have just saw how to replace a damaged lamp socket."

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