B and P Lamp Supply provides a wide range of lamp socket parts, interiors, and replacement dielectric paper-board lamp socket insulators. These parts need to be replaced periodically due to normal wear. The medium base (E26), also known as Edison or standard base, is U.L. Recognized and rated 250W/250V. The hickey is tapped 1/8 IP, which matches the base of the bulb you want to use. Standard lightbulbs are usually medium-base (E26), while smaller bulbs may have an unfavorable socket size.
To remove the socket shell from the cap, use a flat head screw driver and unscrew the hickey from the socket interior. The two-circuit, 3-terminal socket interior is only suitable for standard base light bulbs and can be used with an additional keyless socket on the lower part (used on Gone With the Wind type lamps).
To remove a broken light bulb, turn off the circuit breaker and light switch associated with the power to the light fixture. Before replacing or removing any parts on an electric lamp or fixture, disconnect or unplug the power source.
A 3-3/4″ Candelabra Base Socket with 1/8F Hickey T/S is available in black and white leads and comes with 105 degree black and white leads. To remove the working end of the bulb, use side cutters to insert it into the de-energized bulb and pull the handles apart and twist.
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After 25 years, those old socket lamp did fell apart at my toilet room today (my house is 100 years old) after so long of an usage (changed about 6-10 times the lamp, started from normal lamps to halogens > those halogens lasted very long: 2 to 5 years.) in its lifetime. The socket got rusty from the moisture builded up inside of the iron socket. When I changed the lamp for a new one, I noticed it cracked on that ring holding on to the socket. So that socket had to endure at around 70000 lamp hours or more till it literally fell apart from heat, reheat, moisture and rustiness (if you calculate that you use the bathroom 7 hours a day with 25 years on the lampsocket. So it should be on/off usage of around 1million times if you calculate the small toilet visits interactions with it.) We are with 5 people. So people, if you buy a house: check the lamps how old they are! You do notice how things can fall apart after those years!
I was trying to fix a loose socket inside our security light and found the little screw inside the socket like you showed on the second type of socket, and I loosened the tiny screw trying to see the hole where it screws into and I DID lose the screw just like you said not to. Now what? Is there anyway to get a replacement screw or will I have to try to replace the whole socket now?
New-to-me house, I just had to change an outdoor recessed bulb up in the porch ceiling. The bulb would not unscrew, it just turned freely along with the same sort of porcelain base. After some precarious disassembly, there was no screw, no way to attach the fixture to the can (perhaps the screw you discussed had fallen out previously). With such poor access, up on a ledge, with the sun setting…I got out the hot glue gun and successfully attached the base to the can, bulb installed, problem hopefully solved.
Mr. Gilbert, I am rewiring antique pendants. The porcelain sockets do not have wire screws instead, they have what looks to be like a whole in the bottom of the socket in which the wire comes up through and is fasten with a rivet or grommet of some kind. Can anyone tell me how to remove and reattach the wire to this kind of socket.
Thank you for this! I just replaced the socket on my porch light, which is a couple of years older than I am (and I am getting gray at the temples) and your article was a great help, from picking the right socket at the local Wallace Hardware Store to getting it in. Saving the hickey that it screws into is a great idea. With me, it was a little kind of pressure clip that I hadn’t seen attached to any replacement fixture in the store, and it screwed right back in with the new socket and screw. Good for another (mumble) years. 🙂
I see this is from a while ago, but it is exactly what I needed for 2 floor lamps I have, so thanks! FYI the original incandescent bulbs that fit these aren’t made now, but used to be a hunt for the long neck bulbs that held the lamp just at the level the extender does on your solution, even if the short ones reach and work, overheating happens.