Custom order for Neil

Rewire of Two Vintage French Desk Lamps

Green lamp de-assembled and examined:

• Lamps are metal so require earthing.
• Existing lampholders not-earthable and also broken.
• Fittings are old French fitting so French to modern 10mm adapters required.
  
• Lamps had nice, solid toggle switches but they were not compliant as the metal parts were not isolated from the metal lamp and, due to the size and fact the inner workings had exposed metal parts, there was no way of retro-isolating them.

Work carried out as follows:

• The shade was cosmetically cleaned up.
• New like-for-like brass lampholders fitted with French to 10mm adapters.
• Lamp rewired with specialist ultra thin earthed cable through the arm.
• The standard replacement toggle switches I use are smaller than the originals, so larger components were sourced and ordered which replicate the sturdiness of the originals. These are more compact than the originals, with no exposed metal parts
• A customised housing for the toggle switch workings was tooled to further isolate it from the lamp.
• The lamp was rewired from the base with c1.8m of earthed black braided cable and a new black plug.

Please note the lamp design has in-built vulnerabilties that can damage the cable. It has three moveable joints which are all pressure points for the cable but particularly where the upright arm meets the lamp base, as there is some sharp metal in the base. Modern cable has more protection, and I have attempted to re-inforce the cable where I can, but the housing is narrow and I cannot re-inforce it as much as I would like, so it is recommended to not over-use the joints in order to extend the life of the cabling.