[TheForge] Re: Electric Candle Lamp

[Mike Spencer]

> I have made an electrified candelabra....The bulb holders are UL
> approved, but not the wiring.
> 
> How do you all handle such matters? 

I use commercial (thus UL approved) electrical parts, right size of
wire etc.  But it's up to the client and his/her electrician to deal
with UL approval, building code and installation.  Not ideal.  In one
case, the electrician installed visible junction boxes next to each of
a series of sconces, avoiding the work of prying open very large
mouldings and concealing the boxes inside/behind them as I would have
done.  Pits.

UL approved lighting is a shuck.  I once visited a showroom for
upscale furnishings.  You know, the $5,000 leather sofa and the
$12,000 dining table for 12.  The lighting fixtures were fake-Baroque,
fake-Federal and fake-Finnish-designer-with-small-tinted-glasses.  And
they were all the same crapola construction as the stuff in the Dollar
Store. 

Whatever happened to solid brass and ceramic electrical parts and
fittings?  Now everything is made from aluminum foil, tin can stock
and plastic with a shiny brass-like wash and lacquer.

Grump.


- Mike

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