DaveC wrote:
New socket installed. New lamp installed. Light once again!

I had no idea that these sockets were so standardized (well, the 2-pin
configuration, yes, but not the outside dimensions, the screw holes
center-to-center dimensions.

It was a breeze!

Thanks to all.

Doesn't sound like much of high tech problem to me. It is a
sorry-sack-of-sh_t so-called EET student who is so damned dumb he has to
post to usenet about this drivel....