I believe the part that broke off is a cast metal of sorts with a brass or bronze plating. It is slightly magnetic, so I assume there must be nickel in there. Would some sort of epoxy hold this together, or does it need brazing?
I can’t for the life of me get these pieces separated to change the bulb, I must be missing something. Anyone have any ideas?
My home (rental) came without shades in the pendants. I bought these second hand and haven’t been able to find the right tool/adapter to fit them to the bulb. The glass is heavy and I worry about it resting on the bulb, which is the only solution I’ve found. I need a collar that can go around the green sleeve and extend out to support the weight of the glass. Anyone know what I can do?
I have a lamp that is a family heirloom and it does not have a shade that fits. The current shade just balances on top and falls off sometimes and i can’t stand it. How do i find a shade that will fit it? It seems to be missing a piece. Thank you.
So I have recently bought a vintage lamp from a thrift shop for six bucks. In attempt to restore it. I used the regular type of master fluid and let’s just say that it didn’t not work out obviously but I didn’t know. So I had bought a different lamp for five dollars off of OfferUp. This lamp was not vintage and an attempt to also edit the master fluid. It was fairly successful. I really wanna get this vintage lamp to work but I have already spent a lot of money. I’ve tried so many recipes. Any recipe that is successful for a vintage lamp ? I’ve noticed that the waxes are very different, the modern wax is pretty solid and hard, while the vintage wax is still quite soft, even after being cool. Help please. It’s been two weeks of this hyper fixation of trying to fix this lamp.
I was just trying to help my mom by putting a lightbulb in this lamp.
It looked like a bulb was broken off and stuck in there but once I put pliers to it (and freaking crimped it to try to turn it out) realized I think not.
But now a smaller based bulb can’t get in there.
GD!
I tried to use the pliers again to pry it back out to form but it is risking crimping it more.
Yikes! Help!
What’s the best way to clean up the base of this lamp? I thought it was brass but theres quite a bit of rust so I guess not? I did use very fine grit sand paper on one spot and same off pretty easily
I purchased these 70’s lamps on FB marketplace, but there’s patina all over it and the on switch was cut out from the wiring.
I don’t know if this is brass. I held a magnet to the stem and it stuck, but when I held a magnet to the base, it did not stick. I’m not sure how to clean this as a result.
I’m not sure why the on switch was cut out, so I’m not sure if I have to re-wire this.
Does anyone have experience restoring this style of lamp?
Any ideas on how to separate the shade from the original socket? I’ve tried lithium lubricant and twisting hard holding the top with a wrench and the bottom with pliers but it won’t budge. Does anyone have experience with one of these or have any ideas to try? I got it from a salvage shop that said to bring it back if I can’t get it off but I’d love to make it work.
As the title says, this is my great grandmothers lamp. It has been sitting in the darkest recesses of our basement (aka the house she built) for longer than Ive been alive (29 years). Decided I wanted to bring it back to life and its been a little project so far.
I think it originally came from japan (maybe china) around 1930ish when the house was built. She was heavily into oriental stuff but Im not to sure on the exact facts and I cant exactly ask her cause shes been dead for 30 years 🤷♀️
Anyway so far I have cleaned it up, rewired it (didnt burn my house down either wooo!) because the original plug was seriously terrifying and now I have to figure out what kind of lamp shade you even put on this? I'm more into the dark academia/goth side of things so I'm not sure if theres a way to fit this into that kind of vibe but Id love any advice lol
Hi guys! I have this exact type of lamp, but its missing the shading on the inside of it. Do we know what material it is?
So I got this lamp and the exact bulbs the site told me to get but there is something inside blocking the bulb. Can I take this out?
I got this 60s waterfall lamp for a very cheap price and I'm going to do my best to restore it! I've never done this before im totally winging it lol. Is there any way I can take this gunk off without ruining the original gold metal color? I tried bar keepers friend and it took off everything and went back to silver. (Last picture is its original state and 2nd to last is what bar keepers friend did)
Hey all wanted to share my almost finished oil lamp I started with just the shell it had no pump, no funnel rivets, no stings and the cord/chain was a mess and a bad black paint job. So I got everything new stripped the top and bottom gave it a custom paint job. The light in it I can change to any color. To finish the lamp I’m going to put moss around the statue and an assortment of crystals in the bottom.
I had this light fixture and got spooked because of old bugs/nest sitting in the bottom part and removed it. I was nervous about the bugs so I threw it out instead of cleaning it. Now I want to try to replace the bottom where it screws into the middle, but not sure what to search for. Before pic vs after removing base (sorry don't have a great before pic)
Thank you for any help!
As you can see by the clipped wires, I thought I could discard this piece and replace it with a modern socket, but the socket I have doesn't thread onto the nipple of the lamp.
I can feel the bottom stone/ceramic(?) chunk budge in rotation relative to the top chunk, but not sure they're just threaded onto each other. Does anyone have any idea how to disassemble this so I can put new wires through it?
Image of cord.
I was able to take apart the tension rod. It seems like it has all the pieces needed except the top collar piece is broken in half and missing a little bit of where the spring should hold on to. Any suggestions of where I could buy this piece?