I am not sure if you saw my post of how I made my own adaptor.....so
just look at earlier post to check out how to make one ;-)


On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 8:20 pm, James wrote:
> --- In streetlights-l@yahoogroups.com, "Stanley Chiang"
> <nutrition_man2@...> wrote:
>>
>> I found one on-line merchant that sells the admedium socket for $68 a
>> piece.
>>
>> 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.
>
>