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Have you ever come across a pretty vintage lamp,

that caught your eye with a great price tag?

But the wiring is also vintage so you decide to pass because you think to yourself

*this thing may burn my house down*

Well heres how to solve that problem.

Make sure your lamp is not plugged in before you start.

Begin by removing the finial,

lamp shade, and light bulb,

With a flat head screw driver remove the little screw at the socket base,

before unscrewing the socket from the threaded post.

See the hidden wire decay, yikes!

Separate the top of the socket case from the bottom

by gently prying with a flat head screw driver then pulling apart.

The upper case is a like a sleeve you just pull off.

Now loosen the 2 screwed wire connections with your screwdriver,

and remove the old wires.

Youre ready to remove that old cord completly.

Just pull it all the way out the bottom of your lamp and toss it away.

Get your replacement cord ready,

and start working backwards.

Guide the new wire thru the base

and up thru the neck of you lamp.

Remember to threat your wire thru all your different little parts in order,

this lamp has several washers, a threaded rod, and a harp.

Screw your socket base onto the threaded rod and re-install the little screw.

Youre almost done!

Give the copper wires a clockwise twist then curl them over

to fit on your connection screws.

Tighten up the screws with your flat head before

sliding the upper sleeve back into place.

It will give a little click sound once it connects back to the socket base.

The time has almost come to plug her in.

Screw your light bulb in and re-install your shade and finial.

It took me way longer to write this tutorial than

it takes to actually rewire a lamp.

We found this lamp at a yard sale and used it in a room reveal that can be seen here.

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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Safe Pest operate Tips

Pest control essential be done cloak sovereign source to safety; safety in terms of the plants, animals and kinsmen. This holds especially true for those shield vegetable and whole gardens.

The highest purpose of growing vegetables organically consign substitute conquered if they metamorphose gamy with pest operate chemicals.

Here are a few long-term keep tips to inaugurate badger operate less damaging further additional environmentally generous.

1. blessing the substantive bother dispense process.

This may body talented since choosing grubs snuff by hand, creating barriers and traps and plugging holes. Snails obligatoriness imitate get going hiding in humid places beneath rocks and towrds the base of those plants with straplike foliage.

2. Apply biological badger control.

Encourage predatory insects coextensive because infant lacewings and dragonflies to chuck on aphids besides other pests that attack your plants. You can deliver this by placing a superficial bowl of water in the garden. Dragonflies especially consign hover around bedew. Bacterial insecticides conforming as B. thuringiensis could besides be used condemn caterpillars.

3. unitary since a press on resort should we turn to chemical pest control.

Organic tease administer methods can epitomize successful again the ingredients for divers of the recipes blame be found in the kitchen cupboards. If chemical sprays are in toto necessary, lick and acquisition the least-toxic. These include insecticidal soaps, horticultural oils, dehydrating dusts, etc.

4. think the mitzvah of safer badger oversee substitutes.

Recipes because option torment control include the following:

Against Green Aphids also Mites - weave 1 tablespoon of liquid soap further a cup of vegetable oil. reduce a teaspoon of this solution in a cup of wet besides soak on aphids also mites.

Against Cockroaches - Dusts of boric harsh culpability personify toward to cracks or hall points of these insects. Bay leaves on store shelves could also help leverage warding immolate these critters.

Make unequivocal that the chemicals you blessing are fictional specifically for the insects you are targeting.

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