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

[Pat Horne]

The paranoid in me says to ground it too but getting 3-wire cord that looks good isn't easy. There is some flat 3-wire coed out there, so look around. 

Peace,
Pat

Pat Horne 
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On Aug 20, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Jim Franklin <jamesf at groupwbench.org> wrote:

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
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