Pete C. wrote:
dpb wrote:

Anybody know a source -- a search on eBay found receptacles and a few
switches plus the round ceramic lamp bases, but I'd like half-dozen or
so old-style surface mount bases for a string of lights in the old
machine shed as the simplest way to go...found some new, old stock
locally but they all have the pull-chain integral switch which I would
prefer to not have for these. If all else fails, may go back and get
them. DAGS and a site search at both GE and Leviton w/ no luck,
either, although apparently the full GE wiring products catalogs aren't
online near as could tell....

Just buy a string of construction lights and hang them up. You can get
them at Depot or Lowe's. As a plus you get insulated connections and
lamp guards in a pre made assembly that actually meets current codes
which the old style bases with exposed connections won't. Probably even
UL listed.

If had either within 80 miles might consider it. Section I saw here
was 50' w/ 5 lamps for roughly $75, roughly 3-4X the cost of a few
bases given already have all the wire and other stuff needed. There is
the advantage of a guard, but given where these will go, they'll be out
of direct line of where stuff can hit them anyway.