On Mar 4, 2:21*pm, "Greg Bailey" wrote:
Got a small ceiling fan with light in our kitchen ... socket has gone kaput,
you can visibly see scorching inside, fan still works though ... it's a
small socket with pull cord, not one of those real tiny 2-watters, it takes
full-size bulbs, we use 60-watt bulbs in it ... we've checked at Lowe's and
they have a similar socket ... however, our socket has three wires running
to it; the socket at Lowe's has places for only two wires to connect ... guy
at Lowe's said "it's probably a ground wire, just connect the hot wires up
and see what happens" and I said, "Uh, no thank you" ... what do we need to
do here, can a socket with two connections work, if so how do we make it
work ... is one with three connections available or do we just need to get
an entire new unit? Thanks in advance for any help.

Take the socket to a lighting store with parts counter - not a Home
Depot or Lowes - a parts counter that contractors use. Most decent
lighting stores will have one. They'll not only give you an extremely
close match if they have one, they'll explain the situation in a
little more detail than "hook it up and see what happens"