The missus got hold of a ceramic lamp base at a jumble sale for 50p
because the pattern on it matches the dinner service on the dresser.
At the moment it looks a bit too like an urn for ashes for my liking but
once a lampholde and shade is reinstalled on it it shouldnt look to bad.
What I would really like to do is as well as having a conventional light
upwards is having something that also points to the side and down so what I
am looking for would be a sort of miniature Mother and Daughter light
fitting , anyone know if such a thing is available?
If there isnt I may look at making something out of some bits of copper
microbore with lampholders attached to the end.

GH

That takes me back to the fifties there was quite a trend to convert old acid carboys into table lamps the carboys had quite a wide neck big enough to allow a light bulb through and you could even buy a double headed lamp holder so one bulb could be inserted in the neck of the carboy to illuminate downward into the carboy with the other shaded on top.

You could make a double header light fitting using brass lamp holders the type that have a threaded cable entry point, the thread on those is1/2€� 26 TPI. A piece of threaded tube could be used to link the two together with a hole in the side of the tube for cable entry to both. The shade could be attached to the top one in the normal fashion but you would then need to figure a way to attach the whole shebang to your ceramic base.

Richard

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Tricky Dicky writes
That takes me back to the fifties there was quite a trend to convert
old acid carboys into table lamps the carboys had quite a wide neck big
enough to allow a light bulb through and you could even buy a double
headed lamp holder so one bulb could be inserted in the neck of the
carboy to illuminate downward into the carboy with the other shaded on top.

You could make a double header light fitting using brass lamp holders
the type that have a threaded cable entry point, the thread on those
is1/2€� 26 TPI. A piece of threaded tube could be used to link the two
together with a hole in the side of the tube for cable entry to both.
The shade could be attached to the top one in the normal fashion but
you would then need to figure a way to attach the whole shebang to your
ceramic base.

Somewhere along the way, the electrical dept. is going to want a
suitable earth connection for such an arrangement:-)


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Tim Lamb

Brass lamp holders usually have an Earth terminal screw.

Tim most brass lampholders have an earth connection

https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/cate...ss-lampholders

Richard

On 30/01/2020 16:46, Tricky Dicky wrote:
That takes me back to the fifties there was quite a trend to convert old acid carboys into table lamps the carboys had quite a wide neck big enough to allow a light bulb through and you could even buy a double headed lamp holder so one bulb could be inserted in the neck of the carboy to illuminate downward into the carboy with the other shaded on top.

You could make a double header light fitting using brass lamp holders the type that have a threaded cable entry point, the thread on those is1/2€� 26 TPI. A piece of threaded tube could be used to link the two together with a hole in the side of the tube for cable entry to both. The shade could be attached to the top one in the normal fashion but you would then need to figure a way to attach the whole shebang to your ceramic base.

Do you remember the later fad of turning bottles - particularly chianti
bottles - into lamps? A normal urea-formaldehyde lampholder, but with
the rear cover having a hole in the side for the cable to exit and a
threaded hole where the cable normally exits. A single piece plastic
moulding screwed into the end and squeezed into the bottle neck.

Ah, they are still around: https://www.ryness.co.uk/bottle-lamp-adaptor

SteveW

In message ,
Tricky Dicky writes
Tim most brass lampholders have an earth connection

https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/cate...ss-lampholders

I was attempting to be facetious!

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Tim Lamb