How To Rewire An Old Floor Lamp

Pull the pipe partway out the top of the lamp in order to unscrew and remove old socket.

How to rewire an old floor lamp.

Detach the cover from the bottom of the lamp to find the nut that holds the central pipe through which the cord passes from the socket to the plug. Cut the old cord a 7 5 cm 3 inches below the base of the lamp. Step 4 make the wire connections illustration by steve stankiewicz. Loosen the socket s screws and terminal screws and replace hardware if necessary.

The red wire goes to the hot and the black goes to neutral. Pull the socket up and use the wire cutter to cut disconnect the old wires. How to rewire a lamp leah from see jane drill demonstrates how to rewire a lamp step by step for the beginner. Pull the cord out of the bottom of the fixture.

Working in a clockwise pattern loop the stripped wire under the corresponding terminal screw. Includes information on newer lamps. 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. Pull the pipe out halfway so you can replace the old or defective socket.

Attach new cord to old cord and pull all the way up through pipe. Make sure no bare wire is showing when making those connections. The red wire goes to the hot and the black goes to neutral. 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.

Put the lamp back together. 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. 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. Use a rewiring kit with an electrical cord and a plug that best suits your floor lamp.

Use electrical tape to attach the new cord to the stub end of the old cord. Subscribe to our channel and like our video. Make sure no bare wire is showing when making those connections. Remove the socket from its base cut the old cord and pull it out.

Step 3 thread the new cord illustration by steve stankiewicz. Feed the cord up through the threaded tube in the lamp s body photo 2. Cut off the old plug. Then connect the new cord to the socket.

Pull thread up and remove old socket. I love a good grandma challenge. Flip lamp over and unscrew nut on bottom of lamp base.