The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

You learn something new every day ...

... who'd have thought that a standard/small lampshade fitting would be "too big"

I've wedged one precariously between the twisty plastic bits.... but the other one I didn't even bother doing that.

I am "nervous" about just allowing it to rest on the bulb itself as that's not how they're supposed to fit.

Bulb holders come in two sizes. The screw fit bulb holders are bigger. Lampshades, naturally, come in the two sizes, but you can get reducer rings quite cheaply.

This sort of thing:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ikea-Lamp-Shade-Reducer-Adaptor/dp/B00F97TX3O

https://www.diy.com/departments/b-q-shade-reducers-pack-of-3/258148_BQ.prd

I think you are right to be nervous about resting the shade on the bulb.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

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I think the last time I bought a lampshade (very few times) .... most lightbulbs were simple bayonets... back in about 1990 or so. The two I bought the other week and fitted the other day were the right size....

I had googled and saw there were reducer rings, but I hadn't got to the bit of realising there's only two sizes, so I won't end up with "the wrong size" if I buy two.

I was going to look to see if Screwfix or Wickes did them (just 400 yards away) ... but then I had a sudden urge to do another tip run with the latest batch of clippings....

I'm sure the man at the gate of the tip is starting to suspect I'm running a little sideline in tipping waste I've been so many times... not sure if I've been 2 or 3 times today now ....

I've not got much in the way of "prickly cuttings" carriers, so have been using just one small flexibucket and 1-2 sacks, but as the sacks are black rubbish sacks, they rip quite easily with thorns... so I'm not really optimised with regard to time management ....

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was going to look to see if Screwfix or Wickes did them (just 400 yards away) ..

Wickes do buckets

Jackmydad

There was a general dislike of screw type fittings in this country at one time. Certainly one objection is that if the fitting is wired the wrong way around, the outer "screw" part of the holder becomes live, and so does the screw part of the bulb. Older people will remember the round 2 pin plugs, which were in common use, which meant you could never be sure with table lamps and so on.
Edison screw bulbs were mostly found in industry. This was apparently because it made the bulbs less likely to be nicked!

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Wickes do buckets

I saw a stack of crabbing buckets for sale outside a shop earlier today

GDB2222

All these kids, hoicking crabs out of the water, and keeping them in a lampshade.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

All these kids, hoicking crabs out of the water, and keeping them in a lampshade.

... singing ... there's a hole in my bucket...

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

There was a general dislike of screw type fittings in this country at one time. Certainly one objection is that if the fitting is wired the wrong way around, the outer "screw" part of the holder becomes live, and so does the screw part of the bulb. Older people will remember the round 2 pin plugs, which were in common use, which meant you could never be sure with table lamps and so on.

Anyone remember the awful bayonet adapters that used to be available to allow one to plug, say, an electric iron into a light socket?

Quite how one was supposed to see what one was doing with the lightbulb removed to plug it in, I don't know.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

I think you are right to be nervous about resting the shade on the bulb.

Absolutely! :eek: Please don't rest the lampshade on the bulb, Pastures. It's a fire risk and the weight of the lampshade on the bulb puts stress on it.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think the last time I bought a lampshade (very few times) .... most lightbulbs were simple bayonets... back in about 1990 or so. The two I bought the other week and fitted the other day were the right size....

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i think Ikea might be to blame. Certainly when I first went to one, it was the first time I'd seen screw bulbs.

I also remember the 'row' there was when people who bought beds suddenly realised that the British mattresses didn't fit, nor did the sheets, especially if fitted ones, so all the mattresses and bedding had to be bought from IKea, too! :D

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Anyone remember the awful bayonet adapters that used to be available to allow one to plug, say, an electric iron into a light socket?

Quite how one was supposed to see what one was doing with the lightbulb removed to plug it in, I don't know.

I've only ever seen that in old films of the 1940s and earlier.

I don't remember them myself, although I do remember the round pin power sockets. I had taught myself how to rewire the round pin plugs as a child, and then our house was rewired with square pins and the wire colours changed, so I had to re-teach myself the new colours. (My mother didn't have a clue!)