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Gas Light Retrofitting

Bob meets electrician Barry Driscoll, who is retrofitting an old gas light fixture into a modern electrical light fixture. They rewire the fixture from canopy to the socket.

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Gas Light Retrofitting

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" Now Barry this is an unusual picture and you got. Two points of light. What have you done already. Well we've had to do is we've had to use this ball and chain. And actually sleeves it through the old gas copper pipe. Seeing the diameter inside is so small inside this particularly we had to run a wire back from the canopy where we can't you'll be at the -- back to each socket. We've used this to pull it through the sleeve you know what kind of wonder is this this is just small lamp -- small landlord okay it's already -- intense. With white tape to represent on neutral conductor Morton and our regular conductor its aren't going to be -- hot. And the sockets themselves car Bob. Probably from the early nineteen hundred's there's this this was aghast picture and then it was converted to electrical use probably around 19101915. But besides that you see right here are perfectly good condition. What we're gonna do Bob is we're gonna. Put a conductor. Are neutral on the neutral side. And are -- on the outside of the socket okay. Once we secure conductors. We're gonna put the top of the socket. Back on. And push it into our right. That's snapshot snaps type in your dad okay and what about the rest of the root through here. But we're gonna do with the conduct this is we're gonna pull them through this is again the old gas pipe which is very very thin diameter pipe. We're going to back it up to the left a little bit. Why is that and then threat of back onto the right to so we don't think that a conductors came inside appeal by. And then this is basically a decorative brass sleeve that goes over the whole thing right there yes -- much from him. We've marked the neutral funny chance to so we have no confusion -- Arnold go to -- fixture can't. So we're ready to try you know on the ceiling we're ready to go you know. OK now the first thing is to actually attach the the white metal. Borrow because that this -- to -- a fixture bar to the box. And then of course bears the weight of the picture this. -- when when a couple of pounds. Okay you know which wires go with which up their barracks. Not neutral conductor which is our white. We'll go to both of our whites we've marked from previously OK so both of those whites go to the white. Make up our neutral conductor first. Which we always do to make sure there's no load coming up light bulbs. Which would be in the picture so both the neutral from the from the light fixtures go to that one quite wire yes. Those are the ones -- not terribly. Once we connect our hot. We'll be read it but I can't beyond -- right up. Why is not nonetheless it. But to secure all the wires."

" It can't be right up and we're -- now."

" All right we're ready to put shades. -- these are the original old milk glass. And let's try one of these nice. Large format bulbs which. Go very very nicely with -- design. They're already switch it up. K Bob were offset to the -- all right oh that's beautiful. That's great."

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