I'm trying to repair an angle poise desk lamp. The actual bulb holder has broken.
Inside the shade there is a metal bracket, with a roughly 1cm hole in it. On the original lamp holder, the wires entered through a threaded "tail" which pushed through this hole. Then there was a nut that came down the wires and tightened onto the tail of the lamp holder, thus clamping it to the bracket.
Unfortunately, it looks like the compact fluorescent bulb we've been using has been too heavy for arrangement, and the threaded "tail" of the lampholder has broken, leaving the bulb resting against the inside of the metal shade. It works, but...
So, I'd like to get a replacement lamp holder. One that can holds a normal 240V bulb, but can be clamped by its tail in to a 1cm mounting hole.
Only I'm not sure where to get such a thing, or even what I want to ASK for --- what such a thing would be called.
I've seen "batten mounting" lamp holders, and the ones that I've seen for pendant lights seem to be designed to clamp to a shade or similar at the middle of the lampholder --- where the body is several cemtimeters across.
Help?
Robert.
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