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

[Jim Franklin]

Yea, after looking around at the (lack of) available wire, I disassembled the socket and determined it was pretty unlikely the hot screw would ever contact the frame, since the cardboard was in great shape. So unless I find round 16/2 stranded with ground, i'll keep it as is.

jim

On Aug 20, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Pat Horne <patintexas at icloud.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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