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lamp mystery solved
This regards the lamp that I nearly electrocuted myself on (though Qiao, having more experience with such things, thinks it unlikely that I would have gotten more than a nasty shock).
After taking the lamp apart to replace the socket, I discovered that the socket didn't actually have a contact missing, and it wasn't actually intended to take a 3-way light bulb. The socket does have a 3rd terminal, but it's not for controlling the extra filament of a 3-way bulb as I expected.
The old socket has 3 screw terminals, whereas the replacement 3-way socket I bought has only 2. Four wires come up out of the base of the lamp, and 2 wires were connected to one of the 3 screws.
It turns out there is actually a little bulb in the base of the lamp, which Qiao and I never knew about! The base is ceramic, with a lot of cut-outs in a nice pattern. The inside of the base had a paper lining, hiding the stuff inside. Inside that, there was a little Christmas tree type bulb, which must have burned out long ago. Turning the knob once would turn on the little light in the base, twice would turn on the top light, and thrice would turn on both.
Not sure what I'm going to do with it now. I think it would look neat to replace the little bulb with a short string of white LEDs, but I'll have to figure a way of hooking that up.
(Nearly every time I take a photo in the above room, I'm chagrined to later discover a roll of toilet paper in the picture. I use it for blowing my nose, as it has a higher recycled paper content than facial tissue. It even managed to sneak itself into the above photo.)
I love how these socks look together with these shoes! (Kudos to you if you can figure out how this photo was taken).
After taking the lamp apart to replace the socket, I discovered that the socket didn't actually have a contact missing, and it wasn't actually intended to take a 3-way light bulb. The socket does have a 3rd terminal, but it's not for controlling the extra filament of a 3-way bulb as I expected.
The old socket has 3 screw terminals, whereas the replacement 3-way socket I bought has only 2. Four wires come up out of the base of the lamp, and 2 wires were connected to one of the 3 screws.
It turns out there is actually a little bulb in the base of the lamp, which Qiao and I never knew about! The base is ceramic, with a lot of cut-outs in a nice pattern. The inside of the base had a paper lining, hiding the stuff inside. Inside that, there was a little Christmas tree type bulb, which must have burned out long ago. Turning the knob once would turn on the little light in the base, twice would turn on the top light, and thrice would turn on both.
Not sure what I'm going to do with it now. I think it would look neat to replace the little bulb with a short string of white LEDs, but I'll have to figure a way of hooking that up.
(Nearly every time I take a photo in the above room, I'm chagrined to later discover a roll of toilet paper in the picture. I use it for blowing my nose, as it has a higher recycled paper content than facial tissue. It even managed to sneak itself into the above photo.)
I love how these socks look together with these shoes! (Kudos to you if you can figure out how this photo was taken).