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Hi: you will have to buy a couple tools. they are not expensive. 1-First you need a screwdriver to pull the screw from the handle. If the screw doesnt show, there is either a friction fit cap to pry out carefully with your pocket knife or such, going around and around gently like a paint can lid to ...
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Hi: Some of those older lamps have parts that are not made any more, but there are now better equivalents on the market. Even self starting circular bulbs. Just about anybody handy can replace existing sockets and starters with more recent versions with a couple hours work. The hardest part is threa...
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Hi: Normally a sink faucet is considered an eventually to be replaced part, and is made to be removable. You will find that buying a Basin Wrench is a great help. Price runs from 6 bucks to about 30 for the nicer Ridgid version. You lay on your back under the sink, and look up parrellel to the wall ...
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Its a different world here in California. Those types of projects will typically bleed you dry. Its important for the basic structure foundation to be sound. Then you need to decide if you want to gut-it or go with the patchwork quilt technique. If its a lathe-n-plaster type of wall, go with patchwo...
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When I bought my rain lamp at a Salvation Army store, it only had a few strings, no shrubbery and no lady -- I put a glass stand in the middle to hold an angel figurine, put fish plants in the bottom (plastic) and replaced all the string with thick fish string. Then my cat goes and chews several str...
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Hi David: Normally those sockets are pretty standard, for 80 or a hundred years now. The threaded tubing is continuously threaded, or threaded on the ends only, and comes in any length, depending on the customers preference, and there are couplings, couplings that are open in the middle for wires to...
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I have two 1920s cast brass ceiling fixtures with missing sockets (5 total). The openings for the sockets are threaded continuously from the exposed face of the fixture to the back. The fixures have been painted, and given the paint pattern, it is apparent that the original sockets were screwed in f...
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The Internet is such a wonderful place... unreal that this thread plays out over a couple of years and I log on at 12:30 and the answer is right there! Amazing! Here is the link for Lowes online http://tinyurl.com/2gpm8k but note this is for the local Lowes near me. Thanks all!!!!!
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As a historical restoration contractor, I use multiple resources for pricing and period fixtures on various projects. I would be more than happy to let you and those who view this post to get a peak into what your possibilities are to explore. Here are some examples: 1. http://www.salvageone.com/res...
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To whom It May Concern, Good morning. I am emailing in hopes of reaching someone with interest in old homes. Our family owns a beautiful 167 year old 10 room farm house that has just this week been partially destroyed by fire. A very careless passer byer flicked a cigarette out the car window and it...
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