... I saw it after I had posted my response. Friends of mine own a machine shop, so I've considered trying to make a proper socket. Would not be impossible to
... I have one of those lamps, and I've lit it up before by making a crude socket out of a block of wood. Just take a piece of 2x4, bore a hole about an inch
That's pretty expensive for a socket. It seemed to me the socket that whoever it was turned up the last time we had discussions about admedium bases was more