How To Rewire A Wooden Floor Lamp

Loosen the brass colored screw.

How to rewire a wooden floor lamp.

Use your diagram as reference if you made one. Grandma challenged me to rewire one of her favorite lamps recently a vintage molded brassy model that s no doubt sat in the attic for 30 years. Maybe that s why i kept putting the project off for so long. Most home depot.

Rewire your lamp by threading the new wire through the lamp to the socket then attach the new socket with small wire nuts making sure you match colors. Neither my mom or i ever remember seeing it before and a lamp expert at a local antique shop guessed that it dated back to the very early days of electricity even. Draw a picture of your setup and take your measurements and drawing to your local home center store. Once socket swivel is in place a uno socket is attached to swivel.

The nightlights in this one adds even more to the circuitry. Most cords come with the ends already stripped so you won t even need a wire stripper for this how to rewire a lamp project. There are no wiring kits for these. Includes information on newer lamps.

Feed cord into shell. Strip inch of insulation off wire ends after splitting bottom 1 inches of cord as per step 4. The red wire goes to the hot and the black goes to neutral. Put the lamp back together.

Then connect the new cord to the socket. Most of these lamps use a wing nut socket swivel to attach socket to lamp however there are a few which use a coupling type socket swivel which screws onto standard 1 8 ip lamp pipe to attach socket to lamp. Kits to rewire a lamp with complete instructions are everywhere lighting is being sold. I love a good grandma challenge.

Cover with a new piece of felt if desired to prevent lamp from scratching floor to wire a two prong round cord plug pry out body. Feed the cord up through the threaded tube in the lamp s body photo 2. Make sure no bare wire is showing when making those connections. Take note if there are two lights or one and where the wire runs for them.

Remove the socket from its base cut the old cord and pull it out. How to rewire an old floor lamp. Identify the wire setup and socket configuration. However these reflector floor lamps are more complicated.

Wrap the wire with no ridges clockwise around that screw and retighten. A single lamp is simple to rewire. For safety it is best to rewire vintage lamps. Tighten nut around pipe at base.