Top positive review
13 people found this helpful
excellent and easy for repairing an old lamp!
By NFOwife on Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012
I just got this from amazon (yay prime shipping) today and am very pleased. I have a pair of lamps in my bedroom and for the past 2 + years one has been constantly shorting out. Haven't even been able to use it for over a year because it would blow out bulbs as soon as I would replace them. I didn't want to have to spend $$ on a new pair of lamps, and this pair was expensive and nice. I figured it already doesn't work, I'll try to rewire it. I found a helpful video on youtube for rewiring a lamp so I could figure out how to take apart the old lamp and the rest was pretty easy to do. I didn't even need all the parts in the kit because the bottom half of the wiring was fine so I didn't replace it. Very easy, and now I have 2 working bedroom lamps. Thanks amazon! Oh, a tip- when pushing the wires through your old lamp base twist the twist tie from the cord around the ends and stick it up so that you have something to help guide the wires through the last few inches of your base out the top. This will make sense when you have the kit and try it without :).
Top critical review
75 people found this helpful
Decent, not spectacular, but it's cheap Edit: Beware fire hazard
By P. Himes on Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2010
Does the job. On off switch is a push through. My only real problem with it was that the harp doesn't fit all that well into the holder (it's a bit wobbly) and in general is pretty flimsy. If you're replacing lamp components like I was and your harp setup is sturdy and doesn't wobble and you can fit it, use that rather than the one that comes with the setup. Otherwise, it works and it's relatively inexpensive (at least compared to replacing the lamp, which was my other option) Edit: I thought I'd updated this review but apparently that update didn't take. Less than a year after buying this (can't remember the exact time frame, but it couldn't have been more than that because I moved), the kit, which I had installed as per directions, started smoking and my wife saw a flame before I unplugged it and took it out of the apartment. I'm just glad we never used this at night or when we weren't home. Stay away. Far, far away.
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