--- In streetlights-l@yahoogroups.com, "Stanley Chiang" <nutrition_man2@...>
wrote:
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> I found one on-line merchant that sells the admedium socket for $68 a piece.
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> https://www.interlight.biz/light-bulb/SOCKET-ADMEDIUM
>
> Now that's a heck of a lot more expensive than the unusual lamps themselves!
Must be a very low moving item.
>
> Don't think I'll be getting my H44 Par mercury lamp fired up anytime soon.
>
>


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 deep
with a spade bit about the right size for the base, then run a screw through the
center and out the back as the bottom contact and stick a piece of wire down the
edge. You can screw the lamp in and if you got the sizes close enough the
friction will make a reasonably secure connection. It's not pretty, and I
certainly wouldn't use something like this extensively, but in a pinch it works
if you just want to light something up.