That suggests this is no more than a wind up post .
Need help disassembling this socket
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I largely agree with you - after over a MONTH.
Cut the existing cable entering the Base
and
any socket wrench - of the correct size - would easily remove that nut.
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Ok, I'll try the socket wrench.
By the way, the capitalised "month" you clearly find so ridiculous or infuriating or some combination of both exists because as much as it may not appear to you from the infinite wealth of knowledge you have about me, I actually have something many people would consider a life. And so doing this isn't the main motivation of every waking moment of it. Also, for reasons I don't understand I don't get notifications. So if I don't remember to come in here, days pass.
I have fixed several lamps, I've taken entire lamps from Europe and rewired them or adapted them for use here in North America. And I will do the same again as I move back to Europe. But I have simply never seen something like this so difficult to take apart. I promise you I don't want this drawing on any more than you do but the magic of the internet is that you can simply ignore me, stop replying, and all the madness goes away. All the stress, all the exposure to my incompetent stupidity.
Thank you for your feedback.
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Ok, thank you. I always knew we could do that but I was hoping to find a way to just replace the whole thing because we'll eventually need to convert it back to a French plug.
PS...
If you're thinking of taking it to France, I think European bulb sizes are incompatible with US/Canadian.
Not really!
E26 (in North, Central and parts of South America, Japan and Taiwan)
and
E27 (in Europe -and most of the rest of the world)
are nominally 1 mm different in size.
However, this small (less than 4 %) size difference seems to make no difference into fitting a lamp of one configuration into the socket designed for the other.
(In practice, the Base of Lamps of both of these "designs" is somewhat tapered.)
Of course, the voltages used for the lamps are quite different - between those areas.
Considering the socket has „Italy“ stamped onto it, I wonder if it might actually be ES 27, which would be fine in France.
The main difference between the two threads isn‘t the diametre but the length. An ES 26 lamp in an ES 27 socket will struggle to reach the bottom contact, while conversely a lot of thread remains exposed, which is decidedly unsafe since Euro plugs are not polarised so the thread could well be live.
The main difference between the two threads isn‘t the diametre but the length. An ES 26 lamp in an ES 27 socket will struggle to reach the bottom contact, while conversely a lot of thread remains exposed, which is decidedly unsafe since Euro plugs are not polarised so the thread could well be live.
