light socket
 

Here's a good one. I only need the guts for a push through light
socket and HD has a whole socket for 3.48.

3.48! It ought to be 75c, maybe 1.40 allowing for inflation.

So i go to Amazon, and trusty Amazon will sell me just the guts.

How much?

$8.69 by Cooper
$4.40 by Leviton

Maybe it's a wierd thing where the whole thing costs less than part of
it.

$5.00 by GE

So I guess 3.48 is not so bad.

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On 09/17/2015 01:50 PM, micky wrote:
Here's a good one. I only need the guts for a push through light
socket and HD has a whole socket for 3.48.

3.48! It ought to be 75c, maybe 1.40 allowing for inflation.

So i go to Amazon, and trusty Amazon will sell me just the guts.

How much?

$8.69 by Cooper
$4.40 by Leviton

Maybe it's a wierd thing where the whole thing costs less than part of
it.

$5.00 by GE

So I guess 3.48 is not so bad.





Yeah, when guts wear out I save the shells, so have lots of extra shells
here.


Somewhere in my house I have an old electrical catalog (probably from
the 1930's) where any individual part you see, you can get.


Anyway $3.48 for the whole thing...adjusting for inflation is probably
even cheaper than the 30 cents it might have cost in 1932.

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"micky" wrote in message
...
Here's a good one. I only need the guts for a push through light
socket and HD has a whole socket for 3.48.

3.48! It ought to be 75c, maybe 1.40 allowing for inflation.

So i go to Amazon, and trusty Amazon will sell me just the guts.

How much?

$8.69 by Cooper
$4.40 by Leviton

Maybe it's a wierd thing where the whole thing costs less than part of
it.

$5.00 by GE

Many times the whole thing can be less than the parts. I bet a $ 20,000 car
would cost over $ 100,000 if each part was bought.

Most of the time on items under $ 100 I just get a new one instead of trying
to repair it unless it would be a lot of trouble to replace it.

light socket
 

On 9/17/2015 4:54 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
wrote in message
...
Here's a good one. I only need the guts for a push through light
socket and HD has a whole socket for 3.48.

3.48! It ought to be 75c, maybe 1.40 allowing for inflation.

So i go to Amazon, and trusty Amazon will sell me just the guts.

How much?

$8.69 by Cooper
$4.40 by Leviton

Maybe it's a wierd thing where the whole thing costs less than part of
it.

$5.00 by GE

Many times the whole thing can be less than the parts. I bet a $ 20,000 car
would cost over $ 100,000 if each part was bought.

Most of the time on items under $ 100 I just get a new one instead of trying
to repair it unless it would be a lot of trouble to replace it.


Or you can buy an entire lamp at a yard sale for a dollar and
disassemble it for the socket.

light socket
 

micky wrote:
Here's a good one. I only need the guts for a push through light
socket and HD has a whole socket for 3.48.

3.48! It ought to be 75c, maybe 1.40 allowing for inflation.

So i go to Amazon, and trusty Amazon will sell me just the guts.

How much?

$8.69 by Cooper
$4.40 by Leviton

Maybe it's a wierd thing where the whole thing costs less than part of
it.

$5.00 by GE

So I guess 3.48 is not so bad.

It could be that the individual parts are not the same as the cheap chinese
whole units from the big box.

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On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 1:50:50 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:

....a typical car would cost 4 to 5 times as much if you bought the parts instead of the assembled vehicle.

Another obvious and easily researched question...

light socket
 

On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 6:26:48 PM UTC-5, bob_villa wrote:
On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 1:50:50 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:

...a typical car would cost 4 to 5 times as much if you bought the parts instead of the assembled vehicle.

Another obvious and easily researched question...

Radar O'Reilly mailed a Jeep home one piece at a time. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Jeep Monster

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On 09/17/2015 04:48 PM, Liz Megerle wrote:


Many times the whole thing can be less than the parts. I bet a $
20,000 car
would cost over $ 100,000 if each part was bought.

Most of the time on items under $ 100 I just get a new one instead of
trying
to repair it unless it would be a lot of trouble to replace it.


Or you can buy an entire lamp at a yard sale for a dollar and
disassemble it for the socket.



I often scavenge good parts from stuff people toss out.

The best one was the time my boss gave me a semi-working TV set.

(Must have been a long time ago as I have not had a TV in 25 years)



Anyway it was an older set and the high-voltage insulator needed to be
replaced and I could not imagine where I'd get one other than go to a TV
shop and probably pay a fortune .

I thought maybe I could pull one out of a discarded TV so went for a
ride. I did not even get two blocks and there was an identical model out
by the curb. I just opened it up and took the insulator out...took it
home and fixed the set.

light socket
 

You must look at quality and not just price, and quality it self depend on
material and workman ship.


"micky" wrote in message ...

Here's a good one. I only need the guts for a push through light
socket and HD has a whole socket for 3.48.

3.48! It ought to be 75c, maybe 1.40 allowing for inflation.

So i go to Amazon, and trusty Amazon will sell me just the guts.

How much?

$8.69 by Cooper
$4.40 by Leviton

Maybe it's a wierd thing where the whole thing costs less than part of
it.

$5.00 by GE

So I guess 3.48 is not so bad.