Al Carrell: If you have a lamp that's not working properly you can probably fix it. First of all, check the cord and the plug and if they're bad, that's easy to take care of. With the lamp unplugged, you don't have to worry about getting shocked. The first thing you're going to do is remove the bulb and then take this sleeve out of there. You just push on the bottom of the sleeve and it'll come loose. Right underneath there there's a cardboard sleeve. Take that out and you can see that there are two wires here that are holding the lamp in place and you'll just take those two wires, turn counterclockwise and take that on off of there. It's okay to use the old base, leave it on there and use it with a new socket. Now, before you put your new one back on there, you want to twist the wires so they become like a single piece and you want to bend them into a curve so that they're going to fit around the screws of the new socket. When you get ready to buy a new socket you can either buy one just like the one you took off, or you can buy a different type, even to a three-way type. Now when you get ready, you just go in reverse and start putting the pieces back in there and be sure you don't throw away that little cardboard sleeve, because that acts as an insulator. Once you get that back together, just snap is back in place firmly, put the bulb in and you're back in business.
Episode 018 1995 - 96 Season
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