[Shop-talk] Should I ground a floor lamp?

[Jim Franklin]

I'm rewiring an old lamp and the engineer in me says I should ground the frame in case the socket goes awry. There's currently no conductivity between the neutral part of the socket and the frame/pole (isolated by a cardboard sleeve), so if the hot touches the frame it will become hot.

Paranoid or common sense? Any reason not to?

thanks,
jim